Five People Burned!
GloversvCIe, N. Y., February 1.- The Alvord house, a four-story briek srructure, the largest hotel in the city w;is burned this morning. Pive livcs were lost. The buildirg and contents, whfeh wcre worth about !?100,000, burned wlth almost inci.xdible rapidity. At this season the businoss is unusually large and it is undtirstood that nearly every room iu tue building was ocenpied. A few of the guests made their escape by the stairways, but the smoltc soou cut off this retreat. The next resort oí the imprisoned people v;s the wimlows. The guests who were thus eutrapped did not 0113 hesitate to take the risk of jumping, tbough spme were rescued from tüeir periloub positions by the flTemen. Otners leapel erom the windows, several bejug more or less injured.
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