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Show BURNED TO DEATH TRYING TO SAVE NURSES FROM A BURNING SANITARIUM ioned were injured, but all had narrow escapes. The fire, which Is believed to have started from the furnace, spread so rapidly that when the firemen arrived the structure was in flames from top to bottom. Roberts, the sanitarium watchman, was at work In the basement of the hospital when the Are started. He Immediately Im-mediately ran to the burning house and putting a ladder to a second-story window, win-dow, entered the building. While arousing the Inmates he is supposed to have been overcome by smoke and then burned. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 3.-k)ne man was burned to death and four young w.omen njirses were severely injured by Jumping Jump-ing from windows and in running through the flames while escaping from the nurses' home of the Missouri Baptist Bap-tist sanitarium. ' which was partially burned today. Frank Roberts, a fireman employed in the sanitarium, lost his life in his attempts to save the nurses. Miss Effie Morgan, 23 years old. of Ray county. Mo., both ankles broken, back injured and probably Injured internally in-ternally by Jumping from a third-story third-story window. Miss Charity Laubender, 24 years old. of Masslllon, O., jumped from a window; win-dow; sprained back and bruised body. . Miss Ella Rock. 25 years of age, of Michigan, badly burned in running through flames. Miss Iva Brown of St, Luis, sprained ankle, by Jumping from third-story window. V Fifteen nurses, besides the matron, were sleeping in the house when the fire broke out. None but those men- |