Show flames drove an str acken girls to the W endows many of them jump ing from the third floor scranton pa four girls were killed ten seriously injured and a score or more slightly hurt in a alre in the imperial knitting company s mill in dix court in the central part ot the cit on friday eighty five girls were at work on the third floor when alre broke out on the ground floor where gome men were varnishing furniture in a ware house the alre quickly ascended the elevator shaft and drove the girls panic en to the window opening on the flie escape the girls on the upper part of the fire escape crowded those in front with the flames enveloping them halt of them from the third booi before the firemen arrived there v as only one exit a narrow hallway besides the fir escape and this hallway was cut oft by alre and smoke the tact that many of the girls fainted further bleci ed the ha row fire cape and added to the dif faculty of rescue |