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Show THIRTEEN DIE IN FIRE. You,ng Women Meet Death When Stairway Is Cut Off by Closed Door. Pittsburgh. Thirteen persona were killed and eight Injured by a lire In a four-story building, tho two upper floors of which wore occupied by the Union Paper Box company, on tho north sldo hero Monday aftornoon. Tho dead wero all young women employed em-ployed by the company except one. The flames started In a pllo of straw In the rear of tho feed store of JumeB Brown & Co. on the first floor of tho building. William C. Kimbel, genornl manager of the box factory, went to tho third nd fourth floors and warned the girls employed there, Tho flames gained headway so rapidly, however, that escape by moans of stairways und fire escapes were soon cut off. Some of tho girls attempted to go to tho dressing room for (heir hats and there, huddled on tho floor, firemen found a majority of tho bodlos. |