| Show u I 1 IK L S A B A DL T H UK leap from windows of burning office building cincinnati oct 29 A fire panic caused several girls empi byed in offices in the eleven story leayo building corner comer of fourth and race streets to leap from the windows at noon today fat at least eight of them were hurt several seriously while one fireman was also badly injured the fire started on the sixth floor the flames soon bursting from the window times the hose burst and this added to the panic of the girls who had appeared at the windows as high as tho eighth floor where many of them could be seen preparing to leap to abo ground when the firemen arrived the corner is one of tho the busiest in the retail section and the street was quickly clogged with crowds so that for a time akimo there was difficulty in fighting the fire j miss louise boutet a dressmaker dress maker on the tenth floor leaped from a w win in dow on that floor to an adjoining root roof on the fifth floor level and was badly hurt the fire broke out in the offices office 1 of the pittsburg calcium light company on the fourth floor spreading quickly to the offices of the Pattern makers league As the flames flame a and smoke poured out of the windows of the fourth fifth and gluth floors many of I 1 the girls appeared at the windows and seemed about to jump A number threw coats out and then crawled out on the broad window ledges where they lay until the flames burst through I 1 the windows burning many women painfully at least ten suffered painful I 1 injuries s in this manner while one fireman was seriously hurt by a tall fall of two stories heroic work on the part of the firemen i brought the fire under control I 1 within a few minutes and a ud the panicky occupants of tho the building were then brought out to safety although the panic seemed t to selzo seizo the girls itt in tile the dunleavy dress dressmaking making establishment on tho the tenth floor only one i boulse lionise boutet jumped she was wag taken to tile the city hospital where heneher he reher her injuries were reported to be bevery very veri ser serious ous miss marlo mario brandt ran through the flames and was seriously burned a bout about the head and arms I 1 most alost of the injured suffered from I 1 contact with the flames although I sev ev eral were cut by glass i among the injured were irene lu cas painfully burned marie allarie 2 M arty burned arid and cut hilda doeler burned charles Wi eberding tillor burned louis burten fireman badly hurt by falling from second story miss JIBS hollander forelady in dressmaking rooms was badly burned about head and arms and mary bolander was badly berlied bu |
