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Show NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH IN A FIRE New York. March 10. A number of persons, several of them women. Jumped Jump-ed from the third story wtndows of a burning building at Broadway and Broome streets this afternoon. Scaling ladders were run up by the firemen and a score of women removed. remov-ed. Life nets were brought into use and many who jumped were caught, unhurt. The fire, which Is In a flvc-story flvc-story building occupied In part by the Empire Petticoat company, started on the fourth floor and rapidly gained headway. |