A TERRIBLE FIRE.
NEW YORK, February 23. Within half an hour of the fire being discovered in the armoury of tlie Seven-ty-first Regiment, Now York, the gunpowder magazines exploded, sending bullets in all directions. It was not expected that the Park Avenue hotel would catch fire. Tho victims were chiefly guests who were unable to escape down the blazing elevator shafts. The electric light service failed, plunging tho passages in darkness. The damage done to the armoury is estimated at 650,000 dollars (about and to the hotel at a million dollars (£200,000).
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4595, 25 February 1902, Page 5
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92A TERRIBLE FIRE. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4595, 25 February 1902, Page 5
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