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Show FATAL OMAHA &E. ft TWO PEOPLE MEET DEATH AND AT LEAST TWENTY INJURED. A" Lady Memheri of the Marrabee lodge, Cut On From the F.levatnr, I.ap From the Windows to the I'nvement Below. K" Omaha, March 23. Tho Patterson block, nt Seventeenth and))ouglas streets, was partially destroyed by flro Tuesday afternoon, and two lives were lost and about twenty oihers'are suffering suf-fering from broken limbs a iil burned nnd lacerated flesh. Tho blazo started just after 3 o'clock from a gasoline stovo expansion In a room In tho rear of tho third' floor of tho building and next to t lie i elevator shaft It was not dlscovcreduntll It had spread to the adjoining apartments and tho entlro floor was lilted with smoke and flames. iff About twenty members cjf jjho Women's Wo-men's lodge of Maccabees were attending attend-ing a committee mooting in th waiting room in front ot tho middle ot the building on tho same ilooriThoy were unconscious of danger until a janitor threw open tho door and jjpldjthcm to get out before tho flames cut them off. Tho warning camo too late. jjjTIic fire swept through tho door nnd iown tho slnglo Btalrway. ThosoOncwcst the door fled through tho blifc'lB smoke and reached tho street with hands and face burned and blistered. The rest faced a solid wall of flame.'. I There was a flro-cscapeat the south front of tho building, but not one of them seemed to havo thought of It They rushed, ponle-strlcuen to the window win-dow through which tho.smoke was nl-ready nl-ready pouring In suffocating puffs. In another lnstnnt the spectators, attracted at-tracted by tho clouds of. smoke, were horrified to seo ono aftrj another spring from tho open windows and fall heavily to tho pavement. Two of tho ladles havo died from thelr Injuries, another is not expected to llyc, while about twenty occupants of the building build-ing receive moro or loss painful injuries. in-juries. ,' V |