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Show 70HAN DIES IN LOS ANGELES PIHE Ilan Weihinrf 303 Posnds Lowered Five Stories by Hopes Held by Six lien; Heavy Fire Less. . LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27. Fire which had its origin by spontaneous combustion ia the basement of the Fair. Novelty store in the five-story brick Germain building at 220 South Spring street- yesterday afternoon, - gained freat headway . before it was ex-inguished, ex-inguished, caused the death of one woman, seriously endangered the .lives of several others and caused a property loss of many thousands of dollars. - The fire department had a difficult fight and only after the greatest effort succeeded in preventing the spreading, of the flames Above the second story. . Mrs. Emma Stewart, 6633 Pasadena avenue, an employee of the Germain eompany, with offices on the fourth floor, was overcome by smoke while attempting at-tempting to spread the warning to others oth-ers in the building, and was unconscious when found by E. R. Sawyer, a news- raper photographer, who carried her to he street. Physicians failed to revive her and she died an hour later. John G. Brnbaker, a mining broker, was overcome ia his office on the fifth floor. Brnbaker weighs S00 pounds, and six firemen lowered him with ropes around his body from the window. He was revived. |