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FIRE IN NEW YORK SUBWAY NEW YORK, N. Y., April 14. A stubborn fire in a work train stalled in one of the Long Island railroad tubes between the East River and Pennsylvania station gave firemen a stiff battle today. Wearing smoke masks and held back by the intense heat and poisonous fumes, the firemen fought the flames that crackled underground and sent smoke billowing into the station and out of street ventilators. The other three tubes of the Long Island railroad were jammed with traffic and thousands of commuters were delayed from several minutes to half an hour. The burning train was stalled approximately under Lexington Avenue, 2,500 feet west of a shaft entrance at First Avenue and Thirty-Second Street;
