Show C FIRE IN ESV YORK Tie Western Union Bolldln Wu The Secee of The Con fligraUori I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OFFICE THREATENED Icnry 31 Stanley Ejpecleil To Keach Zanzibar In A Yen Dajs 1 CHICAGO STREETS DARK AND ALMOST DESERTED A i Decree Iisntd XslalilUbWp Sal I Tcrsal Suffrage Throughout the Brazilian Republic OT Tclf rr ph 1 the Nnr l SEW Yortu Fine The Wnlrrn Vnlan unit slime Ballrtlncaln Danger NEW YORK Nov IA fire wag ijl cov red in Iho tower of the VejUr Union building above time Ausoelattd Press office at 340 thus morning Ui U 4 oclock the Ihuues nfra making headway k ota drop of water hasbccn gotten on tile Dame yet and the prospect is serl OUK Flue firemen arc at present dragging a line of how into the Associated Press windows on the ninth floor The hose broke three times while hauled Ume whie being haullo up At < 20 the firemen have Just begun to work In the tower The llamcs arc increasing intensity and a great crowd has assembled lute lu-te street A srunnouN FIRE Five oclock The firemen have succeeded in getting n Couple of streams turned upon the fire but 1 is a stubborn one 1 had gained a good headway among the great pile oinm of messages and recoils stored In the tower and a dense volume of smoke Interspersed with curling flamesIs pouring ouCA great crowd I In the street below All the em ployes men and women in the Western Union restaurant on tho clghUifloor were prom tyawakened when the fire a discovered and are now jacking up The water Is splashing on tb up skylight of the Associated Press office where this dispatch is being written and the streams arc rushing downtime down-time stairways and through the crevices in the floor TIC riAJIMS SUBDUED At53i the fire was under control and nulling streams of water are supplementing the damage done by Uie smoke and name Water Li flowing over lie floors of nearly all theofllces of the upper stories and I the employee are busily engaged with brooms trying t keep it running run-ning down stairs The experience of this firs las proven that stand nines In a liuIMiiit arc useless at ills height and that Intakes fully an hour to get n lino of IIOHJ in working order up to the top of the building bidIng Tho don to tho Western Union bidIng by List nights fire Is only 5000 i to stock 51000 |