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Show SEVERAL INJURED IN APARTMENT HOUSE FIRE. Chicago, Feb. 9. Several women ore reported to have been Injured In a fire which swept the fashionable Ballard apartment building at Fifty-first street and Jefferson avenue today. One hundred and fifty persons, members of the flfty families occupying tho building! rushed down flro escapes; Borne jumping from first floor windows. The fire started in the basement and leaped up an air shaft with the greatest great-est rapidity. Hallways were filled with dense smoke, through which firemen helped several women, carrying children child-ren lirthelr arms. The jump from thu first floor to the sidewalk was only ten feet, and Injuries sustained In this way are said to have been slight The Ballard is a five-story structure. 'I here are many fine residences In the neighborhood. |