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Show ! Fire in a. Jewish Synagogue. i New Yobk, February 6. The synagogue of j the -congregation of B'nai Jerushan, on Madison Avenue, near Sixty-fifth street, I caught fire from an overheated furnace in ! the cellar, at 9 o'clock this morning. At the ! hour when the doora were opened to ndmit I the congregation for Sabbath services, llabbi Dr. Henry S. Jacobs, while putting on his robes, 'discovered the fire, and so quiet was its progress that the sacred scrolls in the arkhad to be abandoned to their fate. A general alarm called out the entire available force of firemen, and 'the fire was quickly extinguished. It did $5,000 damage to the building and furniture, burning some valuable . records of the congregation, which is the second oldest in New York, and only last spring moved up town from its old temple on West Thirty-fourth street. Had the fire occurred half an hour later, a disastrous loss of life might have resulted, as the church was filled with'smoke in an instant. |