Show twenty persona killed in a new york hotel fire the twenty first regiment armory a magnificent structure and one of the finest in the city of new york was de strayed by fire saturday morning the car barns for the metropolitan street railway on an adjo ning corner were momentarily threatened with destruct tion but for hours the good work of the firemen saved them the fire was discovered in a window of the armory on the thirty fourth street side and by the time the alre men arrived the flames had completely enveloped the building and appeared through the roof shortly afterward the cartridges and ammunition ex plodded later a thousand pounds of powder in the cellar exploded and the walls were thrown outward the park hotel caught fire and was burned A number ot per sons are known to be dead the ber be ng variously placed at from four to twenty |