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Show THE RECORD OF FIRE. A Two Million Dollar ltleae in New Vork Other Fir. NewYohk. March 18. A lire that started last evening in a nine-story block at Hleecker and Green streets destroyed de-stroyed it and the three buildings adjacent. adja-cent. The losses aggregate $'.'.000,000. Renjainin & Co., clothing dealers, lose J400.000 on the building and $150,003 on stock; lUmcrslough & Co., clothing, lose M50.000; M. II. Kosonstein, $so,000 ou building and stock; K. V. Connell & Co., hatters, $75,000. The rear building, build-ing, owned by Dr. Macy, was valued at $150,000. Sylvester Levacher !c Co., hatters, lose $150,000. The other tenants ten-ants in the rear building lose an aeere-gato aeere-gato of $155,000. The lire in the storehouse store-house of II. li. Clallin & Co. on Leonard street shows $100,000 damage. New Yohk, March 18. A brick ten-euient ten-euient on Allen street, five stories, was gutted by lire this morning. Bernard Jartcr, M years, liotsy Jarter 13, Sarah Jarter 18, occupying ihe lifth lloor, were burned to death. Several others were severely burned. The financial loss is slight. There were ten families in the building build-ing when awakened by the tire. The lire escapes were so hot thHt they could not be used. Sc.vcihI children were thrown out and caught by firemen. Kiimmm't, N. Y., March 18.---Sixty thousand dollars' worth of property in the business center of Highland was burned last night, and an 8-year-old hoy perished in the llames. FuzAHKTii, N. J , March 18. The Kliabethpnrt Steam Cordage works were burned this afternoon. Loss probably prob-ably $1,000,000. Six hundred persons are thrown out of employment. |