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Equitable Life Building Fire

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 23, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 4.

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Equitable Life Building Fire

On January 9 the large building of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, 120 Broadway, New York, was destroyed. Heroic work was done by the firemen to save life and property; but some seven, including several firemen, lost their lives, and the property loss is estimated conservatively at $16,000,000. Many valuable records of the Southern Pacific and other large corporations were destroyed, and much difficulty will be experienced in straightening out the business tangles that will result. The property loss was equivalent to the complete destruction of the buildings of the average town of twenty thousand inhabitants.