Seven Narrowly Escaped.

Seven persons were nearly suffocated in their beds in a fire which occurred at 1 o'clock this morning in the two-story frame building at 336-338 Fifth street northeast, Minneapolis. On the second story live Erland Sahlin, his wife and three children; Claus Sahlin, his brother, and Frank Sandgren live with the family. The entire seven people were awakened by cries of fire, to find that their sleeping rooms were filled with a dense smoke. Entrance by the rear stairway was cut off by fire and smoke, and the occupants, in their night clothes, crawled out upon the front cornice and hung there until they were rescued by the members of Hook and Ladder company No. 2.