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Show Still Destroys Tenement Chicago Ten persons, nine of them negroes and one unidentified white man, were burned to death and about thirty negroes were injured when fire swept through a three-story tenement tene-ment containing twenty tour flats, occupied by nearly 100 tenants, early Thursday at Twenty-second and Federal Fed-eral streets, on the South side. Firemen Fire-men suspected that the fire may have started from a moonshine still in the basement The building was virtually virtual-ly a fire trap, according to firemen, who, with police rescued a half hundred hun-dred of the tenants, who, while panic stricken leaped from windows and a fire escape which failed to awing down as it should have done. |