A DISASTROUS FIRE.
ARMOURY BLOWN UP
LARGE HOTEL BURNT
SIXTY-EIGHT CASUALTIES
DAMAGE OVEJ! £300,000
NEW YORK, February 23
A fire occurred at the armoury of the 71st Regiment in New York, and spread to Park Avenue Hotel-
Eighteen person;? were killed and
50 injured. Great damage to property was done. (Received 5.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 23. Within half-an-hour after the lire was discovered the gunpowder i*i the magazines exploded, sending bullets in all directions. It was not expected that the hotel would catch fire, and as a consequence the effects were disastrous.
The victims of the. conflagration were chiefly guests, who were unable to escape from the burning building.
The elevator shafts were quickly blazing, and to. intensify the horror of the situation, the eiectric light failed, plunging Ihe passages in darkness.
The damage to the armoury Is estimated at six hundred and ,-^fT thousand dollars (£130,000), ; IP^to the hotel at a million dollars (£200,----000).
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1902, Page 5
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