Perished In Fire

A fire broke out iu a íive-story building at ,he corner of Sixth and Walnut streets iu Cincinnati, Mav 21, occupied by Sulllvan & Co., rinters. ïhere is also a laundry Id the buildns. Ín which a number of girls are employed. l'hc llames spread so rapidlythat iteutoff their iscape, and six glrlí Jumped from the thirditory Windows and were Instantly killed. It vas at ñrst thoup;ht tliat onlv the 8x women who jumped were killed, ut when the fire was subdued so that he flremen eould enter it was íound that ten dead lx)dies lay in heape on the fifth floor and one on the fourth. Therewero sixwho juraped rom tlie wlndow and ivere killed aud one nan, aftei ,savlng the Uves il tito women bv stting down a rope from (lic roof, wad hlmself dllecíby the burning ol the same rope before ie reacííed the gi'ound, Thls wasMr. Sullivan, rother of the proprietor oí tlie printlngworks. The flre origfnatcd by thc explosión of a i rasoline stove n the eecond Boor. The llames iBtered the elevator chute, whicli 18 next to the talrway, and all chance of eEcape was thus ent ilT. The killed were mostly i mployes of dye vorks vrhlch occupln d a portíon oí the building. Looking ovcj' the scène alter the event it ís ilain that every lif;' could have been easily iaved.
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