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Show PERISHED IN THE FLAMES. Two Men Darned to Death In an Elevator Fire this .Horning. N.'.w York, Jan. 16. E. M. Vantasscl's big grain elevator and warehouse, together with the old stables of the Knickerbocker Ice company, burned this morning, involving involv-ing a loss of 300,000. It is known that two worltmen perished in the flames, llenry( Kopp, a carpenter, was burned to death ou the fourth floor; John Kinsley, also a carpenter, car-penter, is missing, and is supposed to have been burned. There were several narrow and thrilling escapss. Vantasscl's warehouse, and elevator and new machinery cost 1.")0,000. The insurance Is only 140,000, In the elevator there were 80,000 buedels of oats, in, 000 bags of wheat, bran and flax seed on hand. |