Show NEW Nt YORK H AS SA I I DESTRUCTIVE FIRE i New Ne York July 1 16 Fire which for a time threatened to rival In dc Ic i ness nesS tho th big hig kOIl pier I conflagration of several years eaI ago J raged on the tho Hudson river riverfront front of or j I Manhattan this afternoon destroying pier H 14 I tho the main pier of or tho the Metro I I politan Steamship company and bad badly badI badly ly I damaging din i ing the steamer and arid partially destroying des more than half halfa l a dozen lighters lIght rs and small craft trift moor moored moored j ed cd nearby The Tue loss is i estimated e at mit t During DurIn the time blaze the adjoining to lb time the north were several eral tithes times threat threatened ened enell and ncr Iller I r 15 occupied o d by the t e Brunswick steamship company caught fire more than once Two men menon menon on one lighter were badly hadlY till d be before before fore they jumped and er eit from the tho water ater by b fire filc bp s I |