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Show WOMEN MEET DEATH IN A LODGING HOUSE FIDE Were In a Veritable Trap, Without Stairways, and Cut Off From Escape Es-cape by an Iron Door. Kansas City, Mo. Miss Agnes In-man, In-man, a corset maker, who camo hero three months ngo from St. Louis, was burned to death and flvo other women wo-men wore overcome by smoko In a lire in tho annex of tho Altman building build-ing at Eighteenth nnd Walnut Btrcets In this city. Most of tho tenants or the building nrc prorcsslonal women and many of them sleep In their offices. of-fices. Miss Inmnn was sleeping on tho fourth floor and she was dead when the firemen found her. The other flvo women wero taken down on ladders by the firemen from tho fifth floor. They wore all rovlved. The part of tho building In which tho flro occurred Is without stairways stair-ways and was shut off from tho main structuro by an Iron door. |