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Show THOUSAND HOMELESS 111 BECAUSE OF BIG FIRE f h ' NEW YORK, Dec. 23. More than a S thousand persons were ni3de homelesi J and $1,000,000 worth of property wa ft jV destroved in a tire. that burned an eu- lfi- tiro block of apartment houses betweeu Kj, p, Second and Third avenues and Forty. j; j fourth and Forty-fifth streets, Brook- & flyn, today. Twenty persons were over- jg .Ij come by smoke, but they were rescued ffli) bv fircmou. x frj "Tho great Bush tcrmiual docks were w'iJ saved only by strenuous work of a lira mY:' boat. ' ". -tfV Occupants of tho blaring buudmga : ' ; wore driven half cl3d and' shivering ' -A into snow- streets, and a score or . others were dragged unconscious from i their apartments by policemen aud '.','-- firemcu. .1 p. |