Show FIRE FOLLOWED EXPLOSION Many Lives In Peril During Blaze In New York Now YorkMany lives were in peril when sixstory factory building at Downing and Bedford streets aught fire from an explosion and collapsed col-lapsed In less than fortyfive minutes after the fire started Several girls Jumped out of the second story windows win-dows Into fire nets Many others were rescued by the ladders So rapidly did the fire spread that the police drove hundreds of people I who lived near by out of their homes Two threestory tenement houses were partly crushed when the factory walls fell but it Is believed that all the occupants had been driven out The fire spread to other buildings In tho same block Shortly after the fire began four firemen were taken to a hospital having hav-ing been overcome by smoke A fireman fire-man and an Italian were killed |