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Show INIHANAPH! IS I Six Dead and Others Injured ' IH as Result of Picture Film f jH Disaster. H INDIANAPOLIS, April 19. Six per- B sons are dead and a score of others l aro suffering from minor injuries as VM a result of a fire which is said to 'jM have resulted from an explosion of H moving picture films in tho office of - a film exchange in tho Colfax office I building and apartment houso in the i H downtown district here tonight. fM Forty persons were in the building I M when the explosion occurred. A score I i H of women were hurt in the panic that i jM followed. H The dead: v i IH DR. MARTHA E. KELLEY, a physl- I H HARRY ROWLAND, IS, an employe ' H of the Cole Motor company. I M LEONA GRIFFIN, 18. . H ROBERT GRIFFIN. 14. , H MRS. M. GRIFFIN, mother of Le- , H ona and Robert j t H MRS. ELLA VINSON. 46. J VM Aiong the injured was W. O. EI- j' H kins, a fireman, who was trapped on H a fire escape and struck by a falling H brick. His hands were crushed. , H The flames spread to the Linden 1 ,' H and Royal hotels, but the guests es- , ' H caped and damage to the hotels was i jH slight. Policemen and civilians made i JH a number of thrilling rescues of per- H sons trapped on the third floor of the H blazing structure. i ' H The loss ot the Colfax building is H estimated at $65,000. ,l |