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Show oo THF.EE DEAL-, 25 HURT IN BIG HOTEL FIRE RICHMOND, Va.. Three persons are known tQ be dead and at least 25 Injured In-jured In fire hen early today, which destroyed the Lexington hotel and eev-eral eev-eral adjoining buildings with a IqSJ ei timated at $ i io.ooo. A wall at the fire escape collapsed and is believed to have entombed st -era I persons Many were injured by leaping from windows The flame-quickly flame-quickly spread to the Savings Bank of Richmond, the Pearl laundry, ihe Cooperative Co-operative exchange, the AndersOn-WU-si n Paper company plant, and the Clyde W. Saunders Printing plant, a! ot whit h were badly damaged. The known dead are: Hiram B. Austin. Flncastle, Vn M J. Fox. Wllllamsport, Pa.; C M Thomas, sheriff of Albemarle county. Virginia.' |