New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-30

BURNING OF THE OIL CABINET NOVELTY C0APANY's
WORKS IN MONTREAL-NINE MEN KILLED AND
TEN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRTBuNE1
MONTREAL, Can, April 29.-At five minutes
past o'clock this morning fire discovered In the
building st Urbain-st, in this city, occupied by the
Oil Cabinet Novelty Company. The alarm was sounded
at and the whole Of the fire department were nc
the with prOmptness The engines were placed in
position ladders raised all sides, and in few
minutes copous streams Of water from thirteen nozzes
pouring upon the flames The fire at first seemed
to be confined to the fifth story, and for a
few moments it thought TO be yielding
to the efforts OF the fremen who working
in all parts OF the building az well As upon the
outside. Suddenly the flames gained new force from
some highly naammabe material that they had found
in their path aud descended through all the lower stories
with extraordinary rapidity and ushed forth from all
the windows 81. UEbaln-st. front Had this 90
CURED moment sooner, six mea would have been de
stroycd who the lower floor, and were called
from their post just In time to their safety the
flames rushing after them they descended from the
windows.
Desperate IN their efforts to subdue the flames, the men
raised the skinner ladder and three Of them climbed up
with the hose The water they poured on the lower
stories seemed for the have obtained the
terry but suddenly the wind changed It's and the
flames burst out, envcopng the whole street.
Wien 1t changed again, the brave fremen who
ladder, not dead, but seriously burned No Station
placed detachment OF its in the Undertakers'
lane and another ut the Crags side. Other companies
OF the brigade had parties St. Urbainst on the alley
ways yitoest, and in st. Charles BarrOmmeost Chief
Patton actively engaged in ST. Urban-st with Sub
Chief Mccullough and subj hcf Maud was In the
The excitement after the accident TO the men
on the ladder became intense. The heat on st.
Urbain-st. was terribly that the single
roofs, doors, and wndow-framcs gnlted, but
prevented from getting ablaze by the remen, who
had their wits about them and exerted themselves nobly
to protect the undergrad which has its entrance on
Craigst. II closely watched aud escaped, though
narrowly well Charbonneaus mills, which adj
join blazing pile, and have entrance st. Charles
BarrommeO-st.
About o'clock the wind assisted the flames even
effectively than before raising clouds OF burning
spnters from the fearful wreck and depositing them
the roofs OF adjacent buildings. In Vitre-st the oc-
cupants OF the wretchedy built tenements became
alarmed and moved their goods III remarkably short
time Charbonncau and the owner OF the iumber-yard
were thought Of Ivy the citizens well by the fro-
men, who guarded the premises as though they were
their The heat from the works set fire to the roof
Of the saloon kept by the we-known crickctrr.-T nw
Ridley. ,ep4r soon put out the flames The fire in the
upper Dat did not appear to abate In ie-
rocty even when the very basement was all
abaze and the roof, which fell inby small sections,
increased that fed the flames below After the
whole OF roof had fallen the upper portion OF the
two gable walls buged Outwards and as the volume OF
fame within increased the several floors FELL was
apparent TO all that walls TO fall soon and
that nothing could save the buildings adjacent common
wooden shantics and that the devoted nreen VINO wcre
in the vicinity would have no more than barely me 70
save themselves.
Chief Patton, who had sent his men into Under
takeane realized this fact and rushed into the alley
way to call his out Reddy Nolan, ana HOBBY OF
No were on the roof OF Beauchamps store, playing on
the houses in yitre-st The chief had barely got the
words out OF his mouth calling them away, wneh tho
rear portion OF the wall fell aud buried Them the chier
himself receiving injuries from which 1t Is doubtful no
ever RECEIVERS The cry Instantly went up that the men
were buried Jack" Rockingham OF No. o, a fearless
and undaupted fireman, rushed into the alley withtwo
others 70 endeeavor to the buried men, HobY by
this time had struggled out OF the ruins but the
buried up their nccks were helpless nut sui con
scous and were literally burned alive Chief Patton son
rescued his father with the assistance OF MI Charles
Garth and Rockingham went out for help, which no
shortly obtained-amOng them Perry. Even win the
additional assistance the two buried remen could not
no extrated and Rockingham went out for more AISLE
lance. 49,,
had no sooner got OF the alley than the other
norton OF the wall fell and buried all who stood around
Acouizing excitement followed, not only among the hre
men but among' other citizens VINO were therc' VINO
were among the ruins could tell. and gen.
oral roll-call was lindulsed in with bremen
and citizens. MERCER. the baiiif, was running
around inqurng where his brothcr-n-law, Nr'
Roaucham,s of ST. Lawrence Mahist was wneh
tbe wall fell; for the last he saw OF MIN was NJ tho
r,, ., tho alley Others who had seen George Lynch.
tho foreman OF the water-works enter tho underakers
bui,dng by the window, questioned where he was
Erc,cn rushed franticaly about looking FOR comrades
Poor Rockingham sat and wept like child, because 10
he said he thought when he took the men INTO the aey
they would not come. out alive.
THE DEATH LIST.
p,nnv ,,,cu,rr of Station No. 3. he wfdOwer,