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Show PlPLnSPEOf BURNING BUILDING SEVEN KNOiVN TO HAVE MET DEATH, WHILE MANY MORE ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR. Many Escape Death by Jumping to Roofi of Smaller FJuil'Jingt Adjoining, Ad-joining, While Othere Are Duihed to Pavement. St l.oul.i From thirty tu thirty- lv K ' 1 - M t .1 i,f tin; Mla-1'jurt AtliU-ti: Hub r i ) i -I la tin; flame that d h'nyed the hiiil'lliix early M'th'iuy, la til.' I . -1 l . - r tit l,ril(:i:rH fjf till! Clllli. Si-vi-n lii,illi-rt haii; hi-i-ii ri - i j v i-ri-- a (ill from t -a en ty th r'-t: tu t a i-ii ty li lue (irrujani.H of tin) tUructure Htill ar.r u n .ti-i-i iu ij ti-ij fur. 'I'hi- hhii! wan tin: fourth hwIoiih ft ri: la Urn dowutov.ii district of St. Louis In etKht dayH, ami thu inoiit H'-rloiiB an to fatalities of any tlri! ia tlin r-lty'H lilHtory. ThlM lila.i', which m r ;ir t-!il at l ; 50 a. ia. .Monday mor:i-Iiik, mor:i-Iiik, wrecked the Heven story building occupied Jointly by thi! Missouri Atn-letlc Atn-letlc cluli u n (i thi! Houtaim-nH Lank, caused a property Iohs estimated at $ti,i;.'lni) Thu iininber of guests who had rooms la thi) clubhouse, either permanently per-manently or for tin) night, waa about lull. Many of themi escaped, some checked out before, the fire; others It Ih thought were not In the building w hen the blaze, broke out; Home were Injured In leaving the blazing structure-, and the rent are listed among the dead or unaccounted for. The fire, which whs discovered by a woman wo-man who was waiting In tho club lobby lob-by for her acort, swept rapidly through the building. When the lirst tire company arrived the building waH a mass of flames. One man, Theodore Levy of Jackson, Jack-son, Tenn., clung to the sill of a sixth story window until both his hands were charred black. Just as he was about to let go bis hold he was rescued res-cued by firemen. When he had been treated at tho dispensary, Levy said two of tho men who were killed had Jumped from the window to which he hung. |