DISASTROUS FIRE.
MANY NAEEOW ESCAPES,
,' Br TeleeraDh—Press Associatlon-OoDrrieJit San Francisco, January 9. ■A number'of lodging-houses in the: city have been destroyed by a great flro; There ■were many sensational escapes from tho burning building. Numbers of the inmates had their escape cut off by tho flames, and were forced to leap to the ground from tho upper floors. Three persons, wero kill-' ed arid many others were injured, '{'-';.;' .';. During,the,progress of the fire a gas explosion occurred and numbers of the police in attendance wero injured.. •
: Ono of tho lodgers who was moiling a hurried escape, wrapped in i o/- blanket, stumbled over the prostrate form of a woman. He pluokily carried her to safety, dowa a flaming stairway. •...':. '
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1645, 11 January 1913, Page 5
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118DISASTROUS FIRE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1645, 11 January 1913, Page 5
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