NEW YORK — A museum official says some 85,000 artifacts that tell the story of the Chinese migration to the United States may have been lost in a fire in Manhattan's Chinatown.
The fire started Thursday night and tore through a building that housed most of the collection of the Museum of Chinese in America.
The museum president tells the New York Times that most of the thousands of historic and artistic items in its collection were probably lost.
A Fire Department spokesman said the fire was still not under control Friday night, 24 hours after it was first reported.
