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Show XKH VOKK 1MH.04 A L S l A Xew Vorlt lSloclc lturut. ireal Tosh ol I, tie i'ro-( erly. New York, 3. J. P. Hale's piano Uctory on 'thirty. Filth street waa de-rtruyed de-rtruyed by fire this morning, and it; is rumored that several person per-islitd per-islitd in the fUmea. The entire block between Tenth and Eleveuth avL'uuea wan destroyed, beoidts several lactones and houea adjoining, on Tenth avenue between -Thirty-Filth and Thirty Sixth streets. The hydrants hy-drants were bo low it was impossible to get water to put the fire out, and a steamer was anchored at the loot ot Tnirty-Fifth street to supply river water. The tenants of many houses which caught fire were barely able to escape without s iviug their effects. I'be heat wad so intense aa to prevent the firemen from approaching within tllective working distance of the burning burn-ing buildings, and most of their contents con-tents were destroyed. There were a large number of tenement ten-ement bouses in the block, all of which were demolished. Sparks lrom the burning building lighted upon tne canvans roul of ttnt goipel tent, and it waa destroyed, Trio conviction con-viction is growing that the loss of li(e will be serious, and several ambulances are in the neighburhocd. One authority Bays there must be Irom seventy-five to 100 bodies hurled in the ruins. Another statement is that twenty fivo to thirty giils era-I era-I ployed in the upper stories of Hale's , factory have perished. Ambulances . huve removed tutue eighteen ur twen-1 twen-1 ty wounded, who jumped Irom the ) burning factory. Still another state-. state-. riicut is that of the 150 to '200 men in the factory at the time of the fir6 comparatively few escaped death or latal wounds. The occupants ol tbe houses on Thirty Bixth Btreet could distinctly see the workmen iu the piano factory making futile attempts to escape trom the rool and upper -lories, and could hear their shrieks tor assistance. August Varrath, varnishcr in the factory, one of the forty fivo men at work in the top story, said the alarm was given them by a workman who bail put his bead out of the window and saw the smoke iaeuing out of the w)nrlnVH hnlmv. Thn fire.man urced the men to keep cool, saying there was probably plenty of time for es cape. Varrath says the men scat-1 tered in various directions, but the tire and smoke drove them back Irom the stairway. There waa a fire ladder at each end of the building and also a chain fire escape. Varrath Var-rath got down by one of tho ladders. He said that since bis escape he hars nnt seen any ol hiB fellow workmen. Hall the surgeons of Bellevue hospital, hospi-tal, the police surgeons and coroners are on duty at the fire. About 350 families are rendered homeless and mOBt of their furniture destroyed. While the fire wb at its height a number ot people on the rjheds in Pheltn's yard were thrown to the ground and badly injured. Hale's piano factory waa a very extensive establishment, turning out about one hundred pianos a week. |