The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-10
Six Lives Known to Be Lost When 2,O0O,0OO.O0 Sky-Scraper Is Completely Consumed By Des- tructive Fire Yesterday.
Millions Iii Valuable Records and Securities Believed to Have Beer. Lost-Was Pion- eer and Most Valuable Building.

lieved to be Campion. could be seen from the street with his legs pinned down by a mass of debris, but conld not be rescued because of the heavy steel doors. which barred the way of the firemen. Through small open ing in the door he was given the last rites by Chaplain Mclean of the fire department, just as he was swallow ed from view by the dense smoke and not seen again.
 Spectators told of seeing others dis appear when the roof caved m, but the authorities believe the list of casualties already given hardly likely to be heightened.
 Some estimates of the JOSS run as high as sl5,000,000, but more conserya- tive autorities thought tonight that the damage would not be over s6.000.- [ 900. The property was assessed by the city at s12.00o,oo0O larger sum with one exception, than on any oth- CT building in the financial district, but by far the greatest part is based On the value of the ground upon which the Equitable Building stood.
 An officer of the Equitable said the society's own loss probably would not amount to more than $300.000 covered by its own contingent insur- ance fund and the duplicates of ev- cry record destroyed were stored in subsidiary offices. The company had planned to erect a new building on the site, as figured by the officers the expense of tearing 1t down will balance well against the actual value of the structure
 Stored away in fire proof vault over the main entrance of the build
 ing on Broadway were between $25o.- OOO. 900 and s30O.00O,OOO of the securi- ties of the company While the vault was SuuJtclGu tO AitiNt hSoN, So5N TarbeI, trustee of the Equitable. said tonight that he believed it's con- tents were safe Three streams of water were played upon the vault
 all day and the freezing weather quickly coated it with ice,
 Although the loss of the autobio- graphy of E. H. Hartman which was about to be printed, seems irretriev- able. records of the Hartman lines may be saved if their vaults cn the third and fourth floors are found in- tact. The Hartman management transferred part of it's records only week ago to new offices in the City Investigating building, leaving be- hind only those Of the comptroller's department, treasurers office and the transfer department
 The loss to the Lawyers Club on the fifth and sixth floors, one of the most luxuriously furnished clubs in the city, will be irreparabe.
 A lihrary of more than 40.0n0 vol umes, many which were priceless and cannot be replaced. was destroyed
 The flames consumed also the law and insurance library of the Equitable Society, said to be the most complete collection of insurance literature ir the world.
 Pioneer of present day skyscrapel constitution in New York City. the Equitable building was begun short. lv after the Civil war and extended and enlarged until in 1888 it covered almost the entire block bounded bl Brodway. Cedar, Pine and Nassa, streets and stood eight stories high
 Henry B. Hyde. former president Q
 the Equitable, was responsible fol ] the. "skyscraper'' of that day.
 | Had 1t not been for the fire proc construction of buildings surroundinl | the Equitable there is little doubt il the opinion of Fire Commissione
 Johnson. that with the sixty-mile gal blowing. great confIaeration woul