Show MANY LIVES WI WERE E IMPERILED S Fire in the New Subway y Threatened Dire Disaster For a ts Blockaded and andT T Crippled a S lI YORK Apri April half hale an anI NEW I 1 hour traffic on lower Broadway near St Pauls c chapel apel w was s blocked today by a 11 fire In the new sub subway way ay the volumes of smoke that poured through the few tew gs to th streets drIving pedestrians away and difficult the work or of the firemen wh were hailed out cut in large force because of the location or of the fire The fire was started b by the up ot of a small banjo lamp used by bythe bythe the laborers In their undergroUnd work ork Zhe he burlap that some som of f the pIpes aloi the e ot of the be to the temporary or oi tunnel ThIs was damp amp and a re me reI resulted suIted filling mUng all the nearby Irk I Ings or of the the subway and pO put Into the streets above The ire e bro out near the corner of Fulton str l land and Broadway where here beside St pt urs chapel is the principal entrance to t th section of the subway n Ing the tunnel at a that point so that hot shut off their usual sual mea egts and for n a time Ime or more laborers were D in and In dire I However one block further down the street at the corner of Dey street streett t bed been found n r to open the street and build a wooden platform in place or of the usual paving After Artel a 0 minutes wor ap opening was nade and the laborers were help helped d dut out ut J I Through the regular openIng into the beside St Pauls chapel and through openings made front from the eel cel t i iI I bars 0 thc buildings adjoining the e SUb 1 wa way a flood of was tho thoe flown down on the smoldering fire and within a I I tl hour the blaze was ru on the n I Ire re resumed u d Th Tb an athi ne 1 I cables were exposed to the fierce heat I J of the tire and the insulation was 1 quickly burned off g tall lall during the burning Six thousand telephone wires In the telephone exchange were put putout out of business and both telegraph companies suffered communication be between I tween the dOwn town and up town 1 ti I flees being entirely cut fT and out of ofton town ton service badly adb |