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Show 15 Hurt, 50 Rescued in Omaha Hotel Blaze OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 4 m Fifteen Fif-teen persons were injured In a fire that destroyed the interior of the eight-story Henshaw hotel In the heart of Omaha's business district early today, causing damage estimated esti-mated at more than 1200.000. firemen rescued 50 hotel patrons, pa-trons, some elderly, as near-sero weather turned water from 15 streams Into a sheath of Ice on the 32-year-old hotel and an adjoining adjoin-ing building which also burned. One man, found dangling from a blanket outside a sixth-floor window, was rescued. The last guests, two aged women, were taken from the seventh floor more than an hour after the fire started. |