Show FIRE DESTROYS skyscraper equitable life insurance In aurance building dIng burns six lives being lost while property loss to Is new york the immense marble and granite home of the equitable life assurance society covering a block in lower broadway Dro adway an historic storto hl landmark of af new yorks early period of skyscraper buildings and one ot at the cloya important financial centers was destroyed by fire tuesday with a loss ot of six alx lives and probably tS in property A dozen persons persona were injured lured In the fire started in the kitchen of a restaurant in the basement of at the tha building valuable records including the tha biography ot of 13 IL harriman Harrl man and two priceless libraries which cannot be replaced went up in flames and the fate of hundreds of millions dl 61 dollars do llara worth or at securities stored stared in the safe deposit vaults Is in question although it was wae believed that fireproof construction would save bava them from damage tho the great structure which besides containing the main offices of at the tha equitable life assurance society was waa the home of the mercantile trust company the tha equitable trust company the banking houses of kountze brothers and august belmont co the harriman Harrl man railroad lines the mercantile sale safe deposit company the lawyers club and many law firms stands a shell of lee ice coated granite grant td of those who lost their lives thre employed emp loyes in the building were killed by lumping jumping from the roof to which ch they were driven by the flames battalion chief Wll william linni J walsh disappeared in a whirl of smoke and flame when a cavegn occurred on tho the third floor two other men william campion captain of the watchmen in the ITer mercantile cantile safe deposit company al 1 vaults and frank J nelder a special officer whose bodies have not been recovered coveted re complete tho the list ot of dead so far as known |