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Show Tire - j Small Blaze in Lodging House Suffocates the Inmates New York', August .1.-Seven lives were '.Oat early today iu a lire which i destroyed a three -story lodging house In the foreign section f Jamaica. L. ! I. The blaze started In a hallway. I ; the only exit, and spread so rapidly that few of the inmatca had an op- j portunity to escape. The lodging houe was occupied fo,-the fo,-the most part by workmen employed in the neighborhood. , Tho owner, Georget Dunbcck, occupied apartments with his family on the second floor, j He and his household escaped safe- j ly in their night clothes by climbing j through the window;! to the ttrect. The dead, five men and two women were nil foreigners. They, were asleep at the time and were all suffocated suf-focated by smoke a. they, lay in their beds. ' ' ' ! The blaze was n small one and a single company of firemen with one line of hose extinguished it within a few minutes of their arrival The propertv loss will not exceed $l,Gu0. |