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Show FIRE DESTROYS BIGJTERM IN AtS Spectacular Rl.w in Railroads1 Fine Now Buildings on Hudson. FIVE MEN MISSING AND SEVERAL BADLY BURNED Crowded Ferry Boats Unload Passengers in Midsl of Confusion. NEW YORK. Dec 2n Fire today destroyed de-stroyed fully half of the Immense rallrOTid terminal building at the foot of .vt Twenty-third street, on the Hudson river. T ho 1 1 as whs estimated nt J5i0,000. Crowded Crowd-ed ferry boats and hundreds of passen- gefs were unloading at the terminals whfn a sf-rlis of explosions w-r.- heard and Immediately dense volumes of smoke llll. d the RP at buildings, followed QUlCk-I) QUlCk-I) b il.imes Five Men Missing. Great alarm prevailed! and when ferry boa is. rbxplte (he flames, kept landing passengers from New Jersey at portions of the docks and terminal which were not 'ii lire, the police from fou- stations had to be summoned to keep order S"v-eral S"v-eral employees "f the railroads were severely se-verely burned and live men were reported missing after the fire was under control. New Terminals in Ashes. The new ferr -houses of the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western and of tho Jersey Jer-sey Central railroads were almost total losses. They were the newest ferry terminal;-. In the city. the Lackawanna building still undergoing Its finishing lo l. lies ami Hie Jerse Central havliiK been completed only two months ago. The terminals of the Frie raUroad and of the Pennsylvania were In r.ich danger for a time that the lire dcparlm nt COn-eentral COn-eentral d almost Its entire efforts on Raving Rav-ing them. One small freight shed belonging belong-ing to the lirle and part of its docks were damaged Flnmes Spread Quickly. The fire started In a paint shop in the Lackawanna building, presumably from a defective electric wire a ferrv boat was Just discharging fkO passengers Into the streets whi n smoke, flames and explosions explo-sions hurst from the paint shop nearby So rapidly did the flames spread that when the lire department had got to work the Intense hat was already melting th copper sheathing on the walls of the building. Tower Falls in River. A 210-foot tower of the Lackawanna, building, burning from top to bottom, fell Into the Hudson river, carrying a three-ton three-ton clock down v.ith it The rocf of this building fell, leaving little except w ills standing and the Jersey Central balhlln:; was almost as budly wreckid. Rescues the Cash, The resr ie of $200,00 worth of tickets and cash from a safe In the Jersey Central Cen-tral office was a feature of the fire a H. Jakln. an officer of the road, ran into the office and got posserolon of the valuables valua-bles before he was overcome smoke Two clerks carried him out of the building build-ing Many Trunks Destroyed. Hundreds of trunks arc reported to have been destroved in the two b'irn:d terminals. termi-nals. W Besler, vice-president and general manager of the Jersey Central, announced an-nounced that the ferry-house of hie company com-pany was h total loss. |