Show new york city conflagration fla gration UNTOLD NUMBER OF VICTIMS large number of injured and missing A fira in the A U warren electric repair shops on greenwich street it is estimated that fifteen to seventeen men women and boys lost their lives faces seen at almost every window ruins not cool enough for new york aug II 11 there was a fatal fire this afternoon in the buildings at and greenwich street occupied by A U warren electric ke pair works and a number 0 em ller firms in the excitement attending the outbreak it was at first estimated that at least thirty lives were lost some of thoo reported missing afterwards alter wards accounted tor the actual number of victims will not bo known until after the ruins ar searched it is known that the death list will be fifteen or seventeen while the bremen were dichting fich ting the flames the bodies of two victims could be plainly seen on the fire escapes five men and boys were injured while escaline esc apine from the burning building they were taken to hudson street hospital mancley and burned what caused the lire is not known but it is believed to have been started by an explosion it is known an ex occurred a few minutes before and the fire spread like a flash begin nine at no and cut off the escape of many the firemen who first reached the scene of the conflagration say they baw a number of men at the windows appealing for help but before an at tempa at rescue could be made they fell back exhausted by the heat and smoke and all are supposed to have perished from the flames altogether Alto cether there wae about 32 men employed by tho warren company there were 12 on the or top floor 11 on the filth 4 on the fourtly and a couple in the office on the ground floor the list of killed and injured cannot be compiled at this time it will be elveral hours before the ruins are cooled sufficiently to allow the firemen to enter from stories told by those who claimed to have been near by when the first alarm was given faces were seen at nearly every window that at least four are dead in the ruins there can be no doubt tor their charred bodies he exposed to tho view on the fire escapes of the third and fifth stories two other one a girl were seen to fall back in the flames overcome by the smoke before the fire touched them the injured as far as known at this writing are felix biaas slightly injured thomas I 1 barkey burned on head and arms unknown man unconscious will die eugene greenwood boy slightly burned badly burned and back apparently broken jumped from fourth story window and striking the structure ot the L road fell to the ground and will probably die among the dead arc W M grav foreman of the electric works and esther finstein also an employed emp loye |