Show FEARFUL fira A conflagration visits yew tort lo 10 th YORK jan 14 A fire broke out about 10 this evening in tho largo building on tho north side of grand street extending from broadway to crosly street occupied on tho other flours by howard sang er co notions store and upon the upper floor by naumburg er co clothing dealers tho entire building is in tho fire is burning fiercely and spreading jap idly and tho whole blockis in danger TTO oilier building are burn rig and acara aro entertained that tho flames will spread to the south side of grand street all available engines and firemen from harlem and brooklyn are at work the pacific bank and levy bros store arc burning once broadway was reach edthe fire seemed to expend all its frenzy there it seized upon every floor a sudden spring and tho third floor fell in with a crash and crushed nil under it to atoms the libat was intense and the air was thick with smoke and flying cinders The police formed in lines and effectually kept back the surging crowds of spectators in thus cleared the engines were kept working to their utmost power amid the roar of the flames IS WERE one floor after choth er fell in desperate were made to dive buildings ahe front clorand street tho burning block was saved it is occupied by Wc ichman A co woolen and ft kingsbury clothing at midnight the fire was apparently under control but the damage was far from over cauin burg kruus layer A co liada stock of clothing partly mode up awl hi ot at estimated worth or a million ond a liala dollars tho top floor waa mainly aa a store room for empty boxes that fed the flames like a baat tinder box the insurance on the stock of tins firm was very heavy but the exact figures could not be ascertained tho liria was one of the largest in the baity boward st co is the leading fancy goods and notions houe of now york their stock is variously estimated at from insurance heavy in all up to to the value of goods consumed edwin bates co manufacturing clothiers clo thiers occupied the three upper noora upon the crosby street nido their stock like that of other firms mentioned is a total loss about 1130 alic crosby threet front of brooka bros build ing nd all grand street fell in to within twenty feet of broadway with a terrible crash the and re portera ran for their lives and it i supposed they all d crosby street front in its fall tore away alie tower portion of an iron building OH the cabot corner of crosby and grand streets and several gersoni who stood on the corner f after the crash A number of firemen anil citizens set fd will and dug away the debris ut and street where the occurrence took place but up to 1230 a m no bodies biad been discovered later particulars furnished by mr bates place the value of the stock of edwin hates co between and and a total insurance of about john doran another fireman of engine co 17 was dug out of alie debris he is bady injured Ee illya body was mangled beyond recognition D J geary of engine 10 was badly hurt by being struck by bricks from a fallig wall two other firemen are missing mi asing but their names could not bo ascertained president king of the board of fire commissioner was slightly hurt by fulling bricks the ire was discovered by a police officer about ten ae saw a sudden sheet of luhcs burst through the corner window on the fourth bloor in a second burst fro atho entire row odwin dowa on the third floor and before engines responded and were to take their positions the upper portion of the building was wrape in flames the baat building extends through the entire block from crosby to broadway on grand street and up broadway to crosby feet the firm of clothiers clo thiers and edwin bates co occupied fifty feet of building on chobby kide half an hour after the firo started the fourth floor windows on the broadway side wore by a pressure from within with an explosion eliat resembled the firing of a cannon glass was scattered over the street and a groat sheet of jamea shot half wy across the street by 11 tha entire building was ONE or tho no broad way and levy bros store ro abt much damaged at one clock a fireman was reported killed by fulling walls his namo is jolin fi cilly of no 17 on cine residing at delaney street lie leaves five children three ahre men are it i feared they shared the fate of their comrade the total loss by firo is today to day at |