DISASTROUS FIRE.
A RUSH FOR LIFE. TWENTY REOBI.E KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright New York, (Jet. 26. A nine-story building at Philadelphia, occupied by Wilkinson and Company, upholsterers, has been burned down. The lire started in the cellar, where a quantity of naptha and benzine were stored. The dames ascended hv the lift shaft. Three hundred and twenty people, mostly women, were in the building. They rushed the iron stairway at the rear. Many jumped from the stairway, and others from the windows. I Twenty were killed, and numbers were I injured.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 248, 28 October 1901, Page 2
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