Show escape an awful fate new york five persons were bad ly hurt fifty others narrowly escaped death or injury and hundreds were driven from adjoining tenements in a fire on friday that entirely destroyed the seren story sweatshop building at hester street and extended to and damaged several other nearby buildings when the fire was at its height the flames lit up the whole of the lower part of the city and the east river with a glare that could be seen sept for miles the damage Is estimated at close upon |