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Show FIRE FOLLOWED EXPLOSION. Many Lives In Peril During Blaze In New York. Now York. Mnny lives wcro In peril when i Blx-story factory building nt Downing and Dedford streets caught flro from an explosion nnd collapsed col-lapsed In less than forty-flvo minutes after tho flro started. Sovcral girls Jumped out of tho second story windows win-dows Into flro nets. Many others were rescued by th ladders. So rapidly did tho flro spread that tho pollco drovo hundreds of pcoplo who lived near by out of their homes Two three-story tpni-ment houses wero partly crushed when tho factory walls fell, but It Is bellovcd that nil tho occupants had been driven out. Tho flro spread to other buildings In tho snmo block. Shortly nfter tho flro began four firemen wero tnken to a hospital, having hav-ing been overcome by smoke. A fireman fire-man and nn Itnllan wero killed. |