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Show GIRLS CRAZED WITH FEAR. Fire In Eleven Story Building Causes a Panic. Olnclnnntl A lire panic caused1 several sev-eral girl employes of olllccs In tiro eleven-story N'eavo building, corner of (Fourth and Raco streets, to leap rrom Uio windows at noon on Thursday. At least ten or them woro hurt, several fcerlously, whllo ono fireman was badly bad-ly injured. Tho fire started on tho f.lxth floor, tho flames soon bursting roin tho window. Five times tho lioso hurst nnd this added to the panic of tho girls, who had appeared at tho windows as high ns tho eighth floor, whero many of them could bo neon preparing to leap Jto tho ground when tho firemen nrrlvcd. Tho corner Is ono of tho busiest In the retail section, and tiro street was quickly clogged with crowds so that for a tlmo thoro wns dlfllculty In fighting fight-ing the lire. Miss lionise Doutct, n dressmaker pn the tenth floor, leaped from a window win-dow on that floor to an adjoining roof on the fifth floor level and was badly hurt. |