Show SPOKANE HOLOCAUST network of 0 miron 11 irm I 1 rescue from froin a harning spokane wash jan 37 27 A As a result of it a disastrous tire which broke out shortly beffie midnight in tile tho areat I 1 astern business block in river side avenue at least eight livi alvis is were lost and tile tho burned remains are arc hill hid den in n moss of debris in what wh at was the basement the flinn started in the basement ila semen t from froin a hot bol ler explosion and when tile alarm alarin was wai given that part ot of the hie building wai a roaring fur ijane rho file fourth and fifth floors were used BS as apartments and nearly mero in the roomi at tle the time several brave men risked their UT eltse tn clilan lq tle io r ul sleeping pt ople life all eels MCI with sharil flod bed throng throne and nien men and women bome n were appearing at the windows and imploring those below to save have them alm 1 I lie corridors had become filled with dense den fie si nolie and man women and children were falling there from suffocation sevet at score ot of half clad people were helped down the fire escape thern buny women clad only in their night alg ht robe robba i stepped into the snowy streets anti and fainting were carried to of shelter ilia iho worked with desp rato energy und baked migny lives but their efforts wort wore tenably teri ably handicapped by a net work ot of whom whoa or around aund tho the burning building light lives and probably pio bably nine wore were lost I 1 licy were alts alko alike wilson aged 18 employed as I 1 a lull hat inemer ti mer her for hister maud wilson aged 5 mrs rosa koo smith sinith ngod l SO 20 mrs 11 II 0 t davies fill an elderly lady ft aiom nebraska city ity neb who fell in filin the fifth story died lu in tile Il AV 11 io coidan idan oi dan mining and t mrs cota coia anil her daughters I 1 thel and alima aged 9 0 and 7 1 |