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Bruce Herald, Volume L, Issue 32, 30 April 1914, Page 3

25 DEAD IN CLUB FIRE. Over the vaults of the Boatmen's Bank at St. Louis, containing £200,000 in cash, .is piled to-day the white-hot .debris of tho Missouri Athletic Club, -a. seven-storey building worth £200,000, which was completely destroyed' this morning with the loss, it is believed, of 2o lives (stated tho New York correspondent of 'The Daily Mail' on March 9)When .the .alarm, was given pome 90 members of the club were sleeping m aa many bedrooms. Within a few minutes .tho whole building was enveloped in flames and' the inmates were jumping in rapid succession from the windows of the lower floors into 'the street.- Of those who,leaped three were instantly '"""""™"