Show I 1 FIRE FOLLOWED EXPLOSION many lives in peril during blaze new york new york many lives were peril when a six story factory at downing and bedford street caught fire from an explosion and co lapsed in less than forty five after the fire started several giri jumped out of the second story win dows into fire nets many others rescued by the ladders so rapidly did the alre spread tha the police drove hundreds of people who lived near by out of their homes two three story tenement housed were partly crushed when the a walls tell but it Is believed that t the occupants had been driven on the fire spread to other buildings i the same block shortly after the alre began four firemen were taken to a hospital havi ing been overcome by smoke A man and an italian were killed |