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Show FIRE IN CASKET FACTORY. Driver Fatally Injured in New Yoik Blaze. NEW YORK, June 10. A flrp started In the factory of the New York and Brooklyn Casket company In the Williamsburg Wil-liamsburg sc. tion of Brooklyn today, ,uid swej.t through several adjoining buildings. Including the six-story tin factoryOf William Voegel & Bro. Two three-story buildings adjoining the factory and the lumber yards of the . Uiket company also caught lire, and the burning embers were sent flying nvr a lung distance. The Dial B Spread so fast that the firemen were compelled to drag their engines out of Its way by hand. William Hheehan, a driver for the casket compan, received Injuries Whi h may prove fatal. I Practically every building within the block bounded by Withe and Kent ave- i nut i. i s iuth Ninth ani South Tenth streets was either destroyed or badly damaged by the ib-e. and ninety families fam-ilies were rendered homeless. The tol l1 loss Is estimated at $300,000. |