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Show FIRE DESTROYS SKYSCRAPER Equitable Life Insurance Building Burni, Six Live! Being Lost, While Property Loss l 16.000,000. New York Thp Immense marble, and aranlte hump nf Hie Fuultnble l.lfp Assurance society. overltii a hlnik In lower llrondwny. un lilstntie landmark of New York's early pi-rlod of skyncrnia-r ImlldlriRS nnd oiip of the rlty'a lmHirtant financial eentera, was desiroyed by lire Tuesday with a lona of all Uvea and probably $r.,nnn.. unii In property. A du;en persons were Injured. The fire stnrted In the kl'rhen uf a rentauraiit In the btinp-m, btinp-m, nt nf the bull, Una Valuable rerorila, Includlnrt the liloKrnphy of K. II. Hiirrlmsn, and (wo prlcelesa libraries, which cannul be replaced, wenl up In flames, nnd Hip fate uf hundreds nf mlllluns d! dnlliira' worth of aceiirltli-s atored In thn safe di ininlt vaults la In ipien ; Hun, iilthoiiBli It wan believe,! that llreprnof i-nnstriictlnn would envu them from dumnap. The impuI structitrp which, lipsldes ontaluliiK Hip main offices of Hip Fiiultalib- I.lfii Ansurance socleiy, was Ihp home of Hip Mercantile Trust rompiiiie, tho Fipiltable Tiu-l company. com-pany. Hie bankliiK lioum a nf Kountxn Itrutliers nnd Auctint llelmitut ft Co., the llnrrlman railroad lines, the Mercantile Mer-cantile Hafe Heininlt company,, thp l.uwvern' dull, and many law firms, atmidn n shell of Ire-coated liranltp. (If I hone who lonl their liven, three employes In Hip bulldiiiK wero killed by J ii i ii I n x from the roof, tn which JJ Ihey were driven by the ftamea ' tliiliull'in. Chief William J Walnh disappeared III n wiilii nf sinoke nnd llanip when n rnvoln uccurred nn thp third flonr. Two nther men, William (iimpiun, eap'alji nf the watclimen III Hie Mercalltlle Hafe llepnnlt company com-pany vaults, mid Frank .1. Nchkr. a special linker, wlninn bodies h ive not I n ri UTed, complete Hie lint nf dead, so far tin known. |