The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-09-13
AN ISLAND OF FIRE.
Extensive COnhaEratiOm
in TOmplkinsviile
Railroad Stables and Twenty Buildings De-
stroyed-Loss Estimated at 100000.

AN Cutiro BLOCK Laid WaSte-Tno ptaton ASian0
Railroad Stables and Twenty Buildings De-
stroyed-Loss Estimated at 100000.
Staten Island Is a very quiet place as a general
thing not overglven to sensations, but 1t was COM
PEELED yesterday to submit one OF a very alarming
character About half.past O'Clock YESTERDAY
morning, as gentleman, who, for some reason or
another best known to himself, was keeping late
hours by quietly taking snooze ON the grass plat
which along the southery wall OF the quarantine
grounds at T0mpkinsville he was suddenly
awakened by fash OF light which darted into the
DIR from the vicinity Of the stables OF the Staten
Island Shore Railroad the other side of the street.
few minutes afterwards flames enveloped the
buildings. He Immediately gave the alarm OF dre.
but almost as soon as he had done so large num-
Der of the citizens Of the village who had also been
aroused, at once proceeded To wake up the inmates
OF the tenements adjoining the stables. MIR. Finck,
the superintendent OF the road was among the first
to arrive at the scene discovering the flames
he broke into the stables and went to work to drive
out the sixty horses which were in the STALLS By
the time that he had reached the interior of the
building the Ore had spread along the whole block.
envelUplng In Its progress Dufie's and VIEWPOINTS
Hotels well as the various other buildings In the
immedsAEe neighborhood. The heat was intense
and the smoke so binding that Flnck and the en-
ployes of the road who made their into the sta
BILE with him had several times to 60 DOWN on al
tours to
ESCAPE sUFFoCATIoN,
as the wind drove the smoke in thick clouds
through the building. The horses took fright tho
sight Of the names, and, notwithstanding the
efforts OF the men, refused to bulge inch,
were used freely TO make them leave tine
md hu yipnP nnnltonf iAn AR
them the animals were made to scamper out. By
this means all OF Them but two were saved. When
directed to the cars which were In the stables and
they were, one after another, rolled out into the
as%es made such rspid prcaress that two we're CON.
sumed before they could be reached. IL was at first
beueved that the stables alone would suffer from the
fire, but the high wind which prevailed carried the
sparks to the frame buildings In the immediate
neghborhood on the same side Of the street. and In
very short time the entire block was one mass Of
seethlng fire. The alarm was given by the railroad
employees, and the terrible glare OF the fire itself,
which, almost from the first moment 1t was ais
covered burst forth with such fury as to light tho
whole village, had aroused everybody In the
progress OF the danes The engines which had been
summoned before the fire had reached the hotel.
were almost useless ior no water was 70 DC NAG ox
not be reached for long time because there was no
hose long enough to DC had IN the village TO add TO
quarrelling among themselves about the possession
OF clstern and while they wranged over the matter
S @ n ~ LIZ ~ Hih , n W nvusU'
ana the CONSERVATION became finally great that
iades Mxaag severa sqaaaes aWay irOn ss scsae
lace wouid he Iestroyed hmsied themselves IN Get
t1 % ~ ,ber vo1n3Sas nt or toir hnsso ~ rc
tng an OF tea vauapes ou. Oh 'neil houses MN nna TO
men meanwhile, with the hope of
h.,.o + +oas dn,w a., r,a hm,id,r,e nm ,n
sosare Which the ,re had not vet reached AMI cha
only added to the general terror. The scene was
raiIr"ad norsss wnct o had hrosen loose ram wIiv
straet. a." the n"or tam,,ss whose tenements were
bmrn,pc and most Of whom mad lost ali their fmrnt
sno tSe snpeS Of e cue M ho sour
taesr cSSren who had heen torn from them a. thev
hurried ont OF the burning houses conid he heara
unon every side-in fact eyervth,nr went to MAKE
up q scene of Confusion and terror which those VINO
Witnessed 1t viii not readily forget
THE LOSSES
1t was quite late when the 1iremen succeeded in
getting a stream on the fire, and even when they
the citizens who brought water from the bay in
buckets did much more service than they possibly
could do BY five O'Clock every building in the
lowing were the losers by the fire.
I. Duffy, hotel, $4,000
J. weber, lager beer saloon, s., 800.
Ii. Newport. hotel, $4,000.
III Thinner lOcksmifh AZ 600
George Young Al 300
p Barber, butcher, $500.
s Geora se moras snt tnsmt ESQ.,
Il NOT known what the exact inSurances the
property destroyed really were. The buildings
burned were Ali owned by Mrs n G. Jones aud ara
said 20 have been tuilv insured. Twenty bntidinrs
Including the stables and dwellings, were DESTROYED
aItogetller
ORIGIN OF THE FIRE
The orjotn of the fire seems tn he wrarned I'm
mvssery There are those who contend that II was
nnrely Accidental while there are others VINO afrect
r. heieve that an incendiorv had snmething r. 40
with it, One of the railroad emn,ovas states that
the first ne saw of the DANES was sayeral Kegs of
naint or tnrcentine tn naint Kegs bnrning betyeen
the railroad stables and MIR CarroIs house AZ soon
"a he saw them he attempteJ he saws tn drag the
Eegs ont from fife buiid,nVs nv meSns of a Stch
rorS but could not succeed before the Are lad
reached the house he then got a short hose AMI
er,deayOred to nut the fire out with what water he