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Show fBy W; U. Telerraph.) DISANTROIS FIRE. New York, 25. A fire broke out at eight o'clock last niiiht in thc carpen- j ter shops of the Erie railroad company ! at Jersey City, and, spreading with fearful rapidity, in two hours' lime ! swept away the entire shops of the company, including the repair shops, machine shops, blacksmith shops, paint ; shops, together with thc general storerooms store-rooms of tho company, altogether oc- ' cupyiog an entire acre of ground. In the repair shops were thirty-threo engines, en-gines, some nearly new, several of them were express locomotives. The machinery ma-chinery of the various shops were very costly,consistingof trip-hammers,ono of whichalono cost $30,000. The boilers, furnaces, etc., with immense quantities of tools, patterns, etc, were all destroyed. destroy-ed. The shops were brick, two stories high, recently built and cost $S0,0O0. , The estimated loss is three and a half millions. AU, except the tools, was insured. During tho fire Jas. Mc-Carty, Mc-Carty, engineer of the fire department, was crushed to death by a falling wall. Charles Naglo, stoker of tho same engine, en-gine, was .badly hurt, from the same cause. A machinist, employed in the shops, entered one of them to endeavor endea-vor to save tho tools, and, it is feared, he was burned to death, as ho has not been seen since he entered. The premises pre-mises occupied fifty-six acres, and upwards up-wards of 1,100 hands were employed. The origin of the fire is unknown. Some workmen say that fire was left in the blaoksmith shops when the men quit work at six o'clock. Others say a barrel of oil exploded from Borne unknown un-known cause, and there are hints that the fire was tho work of revenge by some discharged striker, who had made mysterious threats. |