Show FIRE IN A ROOMING HOUSE DRIVES GUESTS OUT IN THEIR NIGHT CLOTHES 1 A hot stove sto or a n defective detect e Hue fue caused caused caus cans ed a fire firo fro at 1 30 12 30 this mornIng morning morn- morn Ing ng at 45 5 East First South street street A panic was caused In the LaCourt house rooming which occupies two In fn the building but no one ona was was Injured Tho Time store stoie was occupied by bythe bytho I tho the Chicago Auction company Most of or the stock was represented by about I two tivo hundred med mcd paintings According According According Ac Ac- cording to Manager GUB Gus Wallace nearly neary near- near ly Ir y nil all ni of oC them the were ruined s. Mj-s. Ida Jacobs proprietress of ot tho rooming house dl discovered covered the lire fire tre and amid I J 5 promptly turned in the alarm At t this J time the tile smoke moko wa was rapidly mUng lilling the hou house e Before Defore tho the lire fire fre department arrived arrived ar nr- ar- ar rived the inmates were arou aroused ld and anda a wild wid scramble ensued In the rush down stairs n nearly arly all al of the iho roomers roomer left lef time their clothes behind them and lied Hed out bite Ho tho the street in itt their J nigh nighties tes Mrs Mrs- C. C O. O Farnsworth 70 years ears of ot age was carried to the tho street by a patrolman In a n half hour tho the fire Ore i was under control and OCt fifty shivering 1 people went sent back to 10 th the tho shelter of or their rooms room I. I r rj j ft |