Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-05
THE GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORK.

The following particulars of the great fire
in New York on Monday are furnished by tel
egraph as follows:
| There is no hope that yestige of the blocks
bounded by Thirty fifth and Thirty sixth
streets and Tenth and Eleventh avenues will
be left The schoolhouse of Thirty-f fifth st.
is already entirely demolished and the tene-
ment houses on four sides of the block are in
ruins Sparks from burning buildings fell
upon the canvas roof of Gospel tent and it
was destroyed. The conviction is growing
that loss of life will be serious and several
ambulances are in the neighborhood. One
authority says there must be from seventy
FIVE to one hundred bodies buried in the ru-
ms. Another that twenty-five to thirty girls
employed in the upper stories of Hale's fac
tory have persisted. Ambulances have re-
moved some twenty wounded who jumped
| from the burning factory. August Varrath,
a Tarnisher in the factory-one Of the forty
! five men at work in the top story-said the
alarm was given to them by workman who
| had put his head out of the window and seen
smoke issuing from the window below. Var
| rath says the men scattered in various direc-
tlo1s, but the fire and smoke drove them back.
There was fire ladder at each end of the
building and also fire chain escape. Var
rath got down by one of the ladders. He
said that since his escape he had not seen any
of his fellow workmen
About $50 families are rendered homeless
and most of their furniture destroyed. While
the fire was at its hight a number of people on
the sheds in Phelan's yard were thrown to
the ground and badly injured Hales piano
factory was very extensive establishment,
turning out about 100 pianos week.
The fire originated through Nicholas Monk,
varnish rubber, who was heating some var
nish over a stove While his back was turned
it got ablaze, and the flames spread like a
flash. He fed at once for his life, giving the
alarm as he ran but the windows being open
the flames swept through the building, finding
fresh fuel at every step. 1t is supposed that
about 200 men were employed in the building
at the time-on the seventh floor &c, on the
fourth 81, and on the fifth, sixth and other
floors about $50. 1t cannot yet be ascertained
how many have been burned in the building.
The hatchways in one corner were open and
the flames rushed to the upper stories as if
through f1ue. Several 6remen say from the
windows of the upper story of the factory men
were calling for ladders and help for Gods
sake, but that the ladders were not long
enough to reach them, and even if they had
been they could not have been placed in
position, owing to the intense heat Some
of the unfortunates fell to the pavement, and
others, after wildly waving their arms, fell
back into the burning mass behind them. The
great wall on Thirty sixth street fell almost
without notice, and whom are buried under
it will not be known until the debris is moved
away. The widest excitement prevailed as
the flames leaped to adjoining buildings,
mainly tenement houses, and men, women
and children fed for their lives. They saved
nothing, and were fortunate to even escape
with their lives.