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Show A BIG NSW YORK FIRE. The Old Commere'al Arfvertlier Fulldlnff torord- Over Haifa Milllou. New Yor:c, Sept. 13. A fire broLe out in thu old ('ahuncrcial Advertiser. building at 9:15 this morning. In lifteen minutes the llames were bayond control. con-trol. There were many people in the building and some of them bad to slide down tbe lire escape through dense smoke. It is believed all escaped. From the first it was seen that nothing noth-ing could save the building and attention atten-tion was directed to saving the adjoining property. There were numerous narrow nar-row escapes. John Gibbs who was on the second lloor came down the tiro escape so rapidly that his clothes were torn and his hair singed. There was considerable scarcity of water at the commencement of tbe lire. At 10:20 o'clock the fire was under control. A few minutes later tho outer wulla nf tha Antlrn Klillnn utrpftt frnnt fell with a crash and so great was the concussion that windows were shattered in tha Bennett building, but no one was injured. The building was occupied by clothing, cloth-ing, cloak and jnwelry firms, printers, etc. The total loss on stock and building build-ing is estimated at 81"0,000, most of which is insured. Other estimates place the loss between $500,000 and $3(),000. A lot of looso diamonds which were on the table in a diamond worker's room in tha building were lost. They were valued at several thousand dollars. |