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Show FORTY-FIVE CREMATED iN MEXICAN MARKET. Market Bonse at .Watecas, Mexico, Colw lapses aad FofVy-live Persons Lose Xher L.lves. Forty-five liveswere lost and over a score of persons injured, several of them so badly ti.it they cannot recover, re-cover, in a fire' in Zacatecas, Mex. , 4- whieh broke ou in the market-house Saturday and c ised a collapse of the building. Fiftjm bodies have been taken from the bins and a large force is at work clear pg away the debris in order to recoven'thers, though there is no hope that aniiof those caught in the collapse of thei Jig . structure will be found alive. i bong those caught in the collapse we several of the minor officials charged With the management of the building.' The market-jluse was one of the largest building! in Zacatecas, and was owned by the city. Its lower portion was composed cliiefly of cold-storage cellars, in which local merchants stored their perishable goods, and it was in the basement tection that the fire originated. The flames had gained such headway jvhen discovered that the. entire building was seen to be doomed, and tin efforts of the firemen and citizens wore directed to saving goods from the storage compartments in the basement and on the first floor. |