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Show GUESTS ARE ROUTED OUT Fire Near Victoria note!, New York, Almost Causes a Panic. NEW YORK, April 10. Three hundred hun-dred guests of the Victoria hotel were routed from bed today by smoke from a nearby fire, and all the other occu- nnnto Yt a Miil.linc-c In fhe hlork bounded by Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh streets, Broadway and Fifth avenue, were frightened. The fire was in a building on Fifth avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets,' used as a storage! stor-age! warehouse for paintings and antiques, an-tiques, and the damage Is estimated at $100,000. I One of the smoke-routed tenants In the apartment building was capt. E. T. Zalintki. inventor of the dynamite gun. He is a cripple, and In spite of his objections, ob-jections, in order to save valuable papers, pa-pers, a fireman ricked him up and carried car-ried him to the street. In the Victoria Charles A. Towne, ex-Senator ex-Senator from Minnesota, Tony Pastor and Pete Dailey. the comedian, and' his wife were among those forced to seek safety. |