The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-27

INTO room in adjoining house where he was dressed
In somewhat different suit from that which he had last
worm but he was doubtless too happy having
without injury to pay attention to his style OF dress
Speaking to one of the police captains after he was
rescued, he said he never knew he was SO fat until he
| was wedged in so tight in the ruins.
One poor fellow who was severely bruised called y,
the fremen for heavens pour some water upon
him, and when they did So he heard to excaim in
perfect ecstacy-"Oh how delicious that is-More bows
more.n
Zophar Mills one of the officers Of the Fire Depart
ment was precpitated from the fourth to the second
story and nearly fell the head Of the Chief Of Police
who was busy with his in saving the property He
was SO black with the smoke that the Chief could hardly
recognize him. When he perceived that officer he told
him that large number of fremen were under the
ruins and asked him. for heavens sake to set his men
to work in rescuing them 1t some minutes how
ever before this could be DONE the flames were raging
as fierce as ever, and could enter the building
without ncurring great risk Several escaped from the
second story windows by of ladders while others
Jumped to the pavement Fortunately, were in
jured Among those who escaped by leaping from
WINDOW, was man named Kirchtner, who saved his life
some months before in a similar way, during are in
Centre street.
The appearance of the building after the falling of the
rear wall was like that of a furnace but even while
most daring ntrepdty apparently lost to all sense Of
their own danger in their desire their suffering
brothers The instances Of noble and heroic self devo
ton exhibited here are beyond the praise Of mere words
While the men were engaged in clearing the ruins they
heard the barking of dogs which were confined in
| one Of the rooms. The poor animals were rescued
| almost uninjured
Among the narrow and almost escapes was
that OF Capt Brennan, who just the before the
off fha hui11ip 70,
hose.
Officer Holland, of the Second ward at the fire in
Broadway arrested fellow called Edward Dougherty
having In his possession cloths valued at fty dol
lars which he was carrying of for his benefit He
was taken to the Tombs and committed for trial
The wounded remen who conveyed to the hospital
seem to have forgotten their in their anxi
to hear about the fate of thsr friends Where is Toni
is he saved9 "What has become of Bil9 other
qniries made after their fellow sufferers by men
whose injuries that one would think eve.
ything else would have been forgotten in the sense OF
their suffering.
One fireman escaped by leaving the bull ling to find his
cap, which he had dropped outside the street and
Harry Howard Alderman of the Sixth ward and assistant
engineer, within few inches Of the rear wall when
it fell.
THE SCENE OF DISASTER YESTERDAY.
streeto Park place. anxou awaiting the result of the
search for bodies The remen during the entire day la
bored increasingly, and each victim was exca-
waited from the ruins he carried to the City Hospi
tal where other crowds convened to catch each new
report
The rumors in regard to the dead were many and va
red betwean ten and fifty. Some insisted that more
were buried than was generally supposed which gave
rise to exaggerated reports The of the disaster
WAS freplv liacug gaad tha
and the general conclusion was that to the safe in the
upper story it mainly attributable Says one citizen
to fireman" Sir, you not sufficiently careru
Of yourselves you rush too recklessy into danger Or
ganae among yourselves for sefprotection and lot
these disasters be less frequent and fremans life
lsss pcrlous." 60 Sir" responded the fireman
whose bosom friends lay dead beneath the ruins
:" we are, ~ general thing, sufficiently pru
dent, and our experience .eLis where
safe, and what we may expect of burning buildings
which we enter But the real of this loss of life
is placing those immense iron safes in upper stories
which fact ignorant and therefore, mscacuate
our positions When the law forbds putting these traps
in buildings to spring pectedly upon duties
will be comparatively safe to what they at present.
and these disasters will be less frequent" In this
saton we have the WHOLE and doubt the true cause
of the disaster which record Where these
immense safes, weighing ten fifteen tons in the
third fourth story there is security against death
in that building, for when it falls it sweeps every
thing before it.
THE SCENE AT THE CITY HOSPITAL.
At the City Hospital the during the day
was affecting in the extreme. Crowds of friends
and relatives Of the deceased gathered around the
gates, to catch the least news in reference to
the injured and the dead Wives for their hus-
bands sisters for their brothers. and mothers their
learned of safety how eagerly each clung the
ray of hope and how sadly upon them fell the response
of "dead, +" we shall not attempt to tell
It's well worthy of remark that all the doctors of the
City Hospital the accident occurred stripped
of their coats and went to work noby and manfully.
Not physician rested till all the relief possible was
granted to the sufferers
OPERATIONS AT THE RUINS LAST NIGHT.
The work of at the place of disaster was conti
nued last night without any apparent abatement in the
energy of those engaged Fircmen shoudered the hod
for hour after hour carried into the street the rub
bish which covered their companions.
large bonfire kinded by the fremen and fed by wood
from the ruins blazed during the night casting so
and urd glare upon those silently and sadly per-
forming their work large crowd of citizens all night
long gathered around the spot, if strange
influence chained them to the place where such awful
ragedy had been enacted.
THE LOSS OF PROPERTY AND INSURANCE.
In the HERALD of yesterday unable to give the
full particulars Of the loss Of property and the insurance
upon 1t. We find that the loss however viii not much
vary from $4,000.
The greatest losers W. T. Jennings & Co.. the
occupants Of the building entirely destroyed Their loss
is something SG0,ooO
Mr.. Jennings is insured in the following companies
National Insurance 81, 900 Etna Hartford :. s5 600
Union Mutual coo Norwich, Conn. 49,. 5000
Clinton ...... 5000 st. Marks ......... 5000
Republic ....... 900 Rutgers. ............ 5000
Commercial. 5000 Merchants ....... 5000
Columbia ....... 5000 Lorillard .......... 5000
Broadway...... . 900 Howard. ......... 5000
Pacific ............. 900 Peoples .......... 5000
Park k............2 $500 Arctic .............. 5000
Reekman ........ $500 Albany Mutual go. 1900
4Etna, N. Y. ........ 5000 -
Total .........................S9 S97, 500