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Show . 00 , TVO EARLY MORNING FIRES IN NEW YORK New York, Dec. 20. Two early reining fires In tho upper part of the ei:y resulted todav In the death of j . one man, a watenman, the serious in-I in-I .it.iv of a flrema.i and property dun av. estimated nt J350.000. The flrxt fire was In a sk-story eri. k factory building at 494-I9S Last 13 llh street, tho Bronx. The build-lr;. build-lr;. occupied by Xenas & Co.. brass manufacturers, had just beeu rebuilt nfter a lire which olnht months ego iwept through the building, little remaining re-maining but the heavy wnllB. Todays lire was literally a repetition repeti-tion of the .Urueture's previous eMierl-enee, eMierl-enee, and when the flames were put under control after three hours of hard work by tho battalion of tire -n:e.i, the naked walla flood bnre again Just as they had ttood oue morning 1 c!(-ht months ago. j lae watchman of the building, whose name could not be ascertained li trie police. Is believed to have ;er-Lhcd ;er-Lhcd In ihe flames. As eoon aa the bent of the smouldering debris will il!ow, the firemen will begin digging for his remains. One fireman, William Kcrrest of n-K''nc n-K''nc company No. ll, was badly in-Juird. in-Juird. He fell -In feet from the r-.f f f the burning building to the root" C p.n adjoining tenement. The factory wan located In th-?lie.ir' of a populous tenement cllsn let, and the discovery of ther-blaze wa.i followed fol-lowed by eeiien of panic In the .--ur-rour.dlng buildings. 00 |