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Show MANY LIVES IN PERIL. One Flremnn Killed nnd Sever il Women Wo-men Buined in n I'iio In Historic His-toric Spot of Albany, Albany X Y, Oct l-riic broke out shortly before It oilmk tonight In the Towci & Iltooks tomiany a Boston store one of the latgest In the hentt of the busiest section of the city Poi a time the entile dry goods section was threatened and only bv most heroic work on the pott of the tlremen were the names pincllcnlly confined to the bull ling In which the tire stalled One lln-mm was killed nnd a number Injured In-jured Thorn ih Ward, a plpemoii slipped from the lop of a ladder unci fell thirty leet, breaking his neck At the time the llie broke out a dince was In progteas in a hill on the lop tlooi nr th. 1 ulldltig rs cape to the street wis cut off by tho fast spteadlng tlames nnd twenty live young men and women were lifted out of the front windows nn 1 lielptd over ndjolntng roofs The shrieks of hys terlcal women creuted much excite ment. but cool heided tlremen soon corrled them to a plac e of safely Sev etal women were burned but none was seriously hurt The structure win once the residence of formei Governor William L Maicy nnd wns one of the hl'toilon! spots In Albany 'lhen minutes after the lite was discovered llames were pouring out of every window nnd neighboring buildings were ablaze In ninny places I he Munirlpnl Telegraph company a building was badlv scorched the windows win-dows being i battered bv the Intense heat and the frames twisted nut of shape and charted. It wns two hours before tho flames were fully under ronliol It Is Impossible Im-possible to secure any estimate of the losses tonight. |