Show I GREAT mi IN PARIS r Six Immense Warehouses Involved In-volved in Conflagration MANY PEOPLE ARE INJURED Official Computation Shows that 150 People wore Hurt Quito a Number Seriously They wore Injured in a Series of Explosions of Alcohol and Oil Vats During the Progress of tho Blaze Burning Alcohol Spread When Buildings Collapsed 1iuan cial LossTwo Million Francs Paris Feb 2i As ihorc3ull of a fire at broke out this inornlntr at St len a suburb of Purls In a collec jn of alcohol and oil stores t series t occurred spreading the explosions occUlrcd sprcadlng names until a block of six iminenne warehouses was involved In a huge conflagration A great concourse of spectators had aHsembltd and had approached d too i near when suddenly he I explosions occurred I oc-curred A large number of i > opll Including In-cluding some firemen were more or Jest injurd The last explosion occurred oc-curred at G oclock this afternoon when J was thought that much danger had I been averted Thirty persona were Injured I In-jured by flying debris The ofllclnl computation shows that 150 were hurt and quite n number seriously se-riously The Ire broke out at S oclock from Borne cause as yet unknown and had obtained a firm hold before It was discovered dis-covered I progressed without exciting excit-ing Incidents during the morning and at 1 oclock had been gotten under control con-trol At 4 oclock however t he falling walls permitted the flames to reach u r number of alcohol vats and then the explosions began to take place The block of warehouses was almost surrounded by unoccupied ground over which the burning alcohol spread when tho buildings collapsed resembling n nn nf lame and raiislnir IOnstCmUtlOll throughout the district People In the dwellings near by began hastily removing remov-ing their furniture The suffocating heat and fumes seriously hampered the work of the fire brigade A number of engines were sent from Paris to assist The firemen worked fearlessly and more than once were precipitated to the ground by falling roofs and walls A detachment of soldiers aided the firemen In emptying the adjacent houses of furniture and ambulances were busy in carrying victims to the neighboring hospitals Fortunately the flames did not reach the Immense reservoirs of petroleum The lorsS Is estimated at 2030000 francs HAVE A GOOD THING German SteelPlato Manufacturers See Millions in Sight Berlin Feb 25 Admiral von Tlrplz Secretary to the Admiralty has Informed In-formed the Tlelehslag budget committee that If the naval augmentation bill Is adopted an order for steel plates to the value of 270000000 marks will go Jointly Joint-ly to the Stumm Brothers and to Ilerr Krupp Herr Eugene Richter the Radical Rad-ical leader asserts that there will be a clear profit to the manufacturers of 176000000 marks 1600000 mark j 1 |