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Show I our gis It W I ! IN SCRANTOH FACTORY FIRE 1 Flames Drove Panle-strlcken Girl to W the Windows, Many of Them Jump- lng From tho Third Floor. I Scranton, l'a Four glrH were killed, ten ertousty Injured nnd n FJJ score or more slightly hurt In a tiro In the Imperial Knitting company' Xj mill In llx court. In the central part M ot Ihe city, on Friday U Hlgbly-flve girl were at work on the third floor when fire broke out on the ground floor, where some men U were varnishing furniture In a ware house Tho fire quickly ascended tho H elevator ahaft and dime the girl panlc-slrlrketi to the window opening M on the Hro escape M The girls on the upper part of tho H fire ecaie cmwdod those In front H With the flames entelnplng them half H ot them Jumped from the third floor before Iho firemen arrived H There wa only ono exit, n narrow hallway, beside the tiro escape, ami M this hallwn) wn cut off by lire and smoke The fact that many of tht m girl fainted further blocked the nar- row Are scape and added to tho dlf Acuity of rescue. B |