Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — FATAL KANSAS CITY FIRE [ARTICLE]

FATAL KANSAS CITY FIRE

Blaze Destroy* Apartment RoilUioc MO Residence District — Many Fer«ana •lump from Window*. Kansas City, Fob. 11. —One girl lost" her life and four others were injured, one perhaps fatally, in a fire that destroyed a three-story brick apartment house at Fifteenth and Harrison streets, in the southeastern part of the residence district. There were several narrow escapes and many jumped from tlie second and third-story windows. The girl who lost her life was Hmr Jessie Averill, aged 20, who was burned to death. The following wen* injured: Miss Ida l’arisb, badly burned and injured internally, perha'Dri fatally; Miss Lena Knelling, face a net hands burned seriously; Miss Margaret Shaw, face and bead burned seriously; Mre Minnie Taylor, bead and haute badly burned, arm broken. The fire was started by the explosion of a gasoline stove in Miss Averiß’s room. She was burned to a crisp and her body fell out of the window through which she bad apparently sought to escape. Miss Averill was a clerk in a millinery store. Her parents live near Ottawa. Can.