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Show THE HUNGRY FLAMES I H FIERCE FIRE RAGING IN THE BUSINESS BUSI-NESS HEART OF ROCHESTER. I Clio tfeat of the flames Is So Intense That the Firemen t an Do Little to Che)k Their Progress Much Loss Threatened. v Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 12. A fierce Are la raging here at noon. Hiram Sibley's seed house, a ten or twelve story building, covering cover-ing nearly a w hole square, U a mass of Baltics. The heat from the Are makes it impossible im-possible for tin 'firemen to be of much use In saving the adjoining buildings and it is feared that other fires will follow. At 13:90, half an hour after the tire started, the south wall of the great building fell, crushing iu the rear of the store of Howe & Bassett, which is iu the Libby block iu the rear of the burning building. A woman and a baby were rescued by the firemen from the third story of lliisbuildhig. Later a large portion of the southwest wall fell, setting lire to the Second Baptist church. Detective Long was in the back of the hnll of the top floor w ith ten or twelve firemen and citizens helping to rescue xthe people within when the walls caved iu and all were buried in the ruins. 'When Long ahd two liremen escaped they saw nothing of the rest of the people who were with them. Long feels certaiu that some of them are still In the ruins. As soon as it became apparent that the building in the rear could not be saved and the danger of the front building which Is occupied by flfteeu firms as well as rosi-Jcnts rosi-Jcnts from catching fire, the tenants in the latter begau to move out. The fire, however, had been gotten under control before; the whole fronl of the structure was consul) '. No estimate of the loss can be gi on. Hiram Sibley said ihe rear structure was worth 1100,000. He cannot aecouut for the origin of the lire. |