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Show Br Telegraph.) Great Fire in Pennsylvania. Pittsburg, 30. The Marshal House, situated on the west end of the wire bridge over the Alleghany river, at Franklin, Penn., took fire this morning. morn-ing. The flames communicated with the bridge, and the cable soon becoming becom-ing red hot, it parted from its anchorage, anchor-age, precipitating the bridge structure into the river, about twenty persons being on the bridge at tho time. W. Neil, farmer; Mrs. Mclntyre and Miss Mary Mclntyre, wife and daughter ol toll-keeper, who engaged in removing furniture on tho bridge, were fata 1) injured and their bodies were recovered. recover-ed. George Mclntyre. John and Alex. McCartney, J. llerrnge, and two unknown persons were seriously injured. Milfred Kilgore, freight agent of the Alleghany Valley Railroad, is supposed to have been buried in the ruins, as he was known to be on the bridge. The weather was intensely cold, and the river was frozen over to the second pier on each side; and great difficulty was experienced in reaching the sufferers with skill's. A boy named Johnson, aged :;, jumped from the centre of tho bridge and swain a -here through the slush ice. I |