| Show l 0 l J FATAL fiRE IN if l FIVE CENT STORE Seven Persons Killed Two Fa FaI Fatally I tally Injured and Thirty Seriously Hurt EXPLOSION Of FIREWORKS This time or Flee lIro mth hell a 11 ai Ensued i 0 July persons r I killed nt at least tWO others were wera tully fully 30 more mor were hurt os as the result of a lire In InS S 5 S store stare on Ontario street today DEAD I ag aged IS 8 hoer mIkOl nad T clerk Anna aged 23 clerk lilted aged 17 i ch clerk rk Ibis aged 17 clerk Mary aged 27 j J inell I L Parker 4 1 years old I Anna IS 18 h Laura 16 hUIno about bUll body and amI hilI Mrs Anna l linn hip cr h II Injured Carrie Internal Injuries 14 trampled up upon on amid ami 1 leg lell broken Time lIre followed nn an of at tIre fire v tk on III display tim III tile I stoiC differ Urfer liS an to th o of time tho A wilo was lit at time IIII counter coullier I time the stock IgnIted by 13 sparks from rum a which was to inn hel by II a clerk cieri Fire Chief and time tho tore store manager were ot of the opinIon that tile the voI oro IgnIted l I nn mum arc Immediately time the explosion t an alarm of tIre was pounded and panIc 1 the shoppers hoppes und and employee A r mad rush tush vas Willi made for the awl Maim Ian from fromn time tho QC ond third The store whIch Is located near the tho corner In tile the dims was well veil filled with shoppers und Practical I aU or of the clerks Were young Although time the of oC tho caused consternation the real panic ld not lIot OCCUr one lire For Instant a hush came canie over thO crowd Thou Them women screamed taInted faInted imad team teal them hy by the pos possIbIlity or of or death on oil the ma maim door loor rushed for the tho trout un 1 rear real doors QuicklY were welo Jammed hi th tile front door avay DurIng time tho jam those who VilO mal 1 to escape by the tho rear door were In their passage rita buck back door was Willi too tee small for Ol nil ull who sought saCot safety thore I ml tile tho real win window dow dowle were overo with Iron Iroll bars bar Tho 1 who could not escape In this turned t the front loot oer every ono nile tile floor III able nub to 10 leave Injury time tho front hoar door It was Willi or of the tho III at that door Ioor that saven ones lost lives T Tw a 0 of III the clerks Heeln no possibilIty ot of I lit at tile the front door ran rail railto to th The Tho ha wilt dowe also barred with Iron Imon and theIr rot 11 Ill to till the main hour aS cut or oft hy by the Iho of time tho The woolen were to time rear o of Ih the Store b by time the approaching flames flame anti under a counter thero bo found tw houll after time amen timid been suffocated The time tho hll t Ime next Ic tIme the floor was 1111 III s tilo tho torn I tue fireworks n Collator rn rapidly to other othet parts paris or of time the store Time The smoke were whirled up the staIr to In th time anti Thu rho of clerks clerke anti Wilt who were vere endeavoring to In find n ft of escape seap by way ut of time Iho were b by the lug 1111 smoke Time elevator mutate hips tile the first few rew at ati tho i ito limo 1110 a tid toOk to the Itt hour ot of evele near or itt III front ot Of th store itoi e u mit t time the lime or at tho TerrIfied shoppers rushell jut of the cliot to 10 time Iho sIdewalk and gIns III the thO up Item lIeI I I pleadIng for help upon tile thc sIdewalks told them timen tu va I t mum tl I time IIII artI ved itI th theIr nl ith the fright Will was them some 11 1 nt not wait but bul hurled buried to sidewalk In tills this manner man many voie revere injured hen one or two bad thus faced death it stampeded i nit the Iho upper window ledges and they too leaped |
