The New York Fire.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh New York, Feb. 23.
Within half an hour after the fire was discovered, the gunpowder magazines exploded, sendmg bullets in all directions. It was not expected that the hotel would catch fire. The victims were chiefly guests unable to escape by the blazing elevator shafts. The electric light failed, plunging the passages in darkness. The damage to the armory is 650,000 dollars, and to the hotel a million dollars.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 349, 25 February 1902, Page 2
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76The New York Fire. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 349, 25 February 1902, Page 2
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