Show A Fatal Plunge NEW YORK March 8The large tailor establishment es-tablishment of Nicol the Tailor on the Bowery was destroyed by fire this morning The fire caused a blockade on the Third avenue elevated road which extended far up above Fourteenth street The conductor on the train which was blocked a few hundred hun-dred feet from Fourteenth street station notified his passengers that they could leave the train and walk over the narrow plank along the side of the track and thus make their way to the station A number availed themselves of the dangerous privilege and an awful accident was the result In some way a panic was started on the narrow walk far above the street and a number of persons were flung to the pavement below It is stated seven were killed and many injured LATER Official report of the accident shows that three persons were killed and I II seven others badly injured It appears that a number of passengers left one of the trains at Seventeenth street and started to I walk along the narrow footpath at the side of the track to the station at Fourteenth street While doing so the blockade was relieved and trains began to start The I I motion shook the pathway to such an extent that a number of passengers were thrown down to the street below with result as stated |