FIRE AT PHILADELPHIA.
l * HEAVY. LOSS OF LIFE, PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. " Received 26, 8.18 a.m. 1 New York, October 26. 1 A nine-storey building in Pbiladel--8 phia, occupied by the Wilkinson Company, upholdsterers, has been burned. ' The fire started in tbe cellar, where a quantity of naptba and benzine was 1 stored, and the fhm.es ascended the lift shaft. There were 320 people, mostly r women, in the building, and they * rushed the iron staircase at the rear. J Many jumped from the stairway, and I r others from tbe windows, 20 beingl r killed and numbers injured. I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 254, 28 October 1901, Page 3
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99FIRE AT PHILADELPHIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 254, 28 October 1901, Page 3
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