The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-06

| The water gave out, which rendered
the engine useless.
The loss is from 81 900, 900 to 81. 500 900.
Many families are without shelter.
Some lives are reported lost, but only
one body has been found as yet.
The fire was caused by an incendiary,
who is under arrest.
NEW YORK, Sept. 81 P. Hale's piano
factory on West Thirty fifth street, was
entirely destroyed by fire this morning and
it is rumored ten persons persisted. The
flames extended to the south side of
the street, destroying an entire
NJ. Connally's barrel factory. j. Grayam g.
Co.'S silk factory and several houses ad-
joining south, J. Walkers char
coal factory north of 35th
street and a block of frame houses on
Tenth avenue, between 35th and 36th
streets. A fire engine was also burned,
the firemen being unable to get it out in
consequence of intense heat
New YORK, Sept. Sit is reported that
one hundred lives have been lost in the
| fire to-day at Tenth avenue and Thirty
sixth street.
The Evening Post says: The facto-
ries and other buildings named in Thirty
! fifth street were burned to ruins in about
three quarters of an hour.
The fire steamer Fulton was anchored at
the dock at the foot of Thirty-fifth street.
and lines of hose extended from it to
Eleventh avenue and supplied river water
to No. 2 engine.
The hydrant at corner of Tenth avenue
and Thirty-siX street was entirely empty
While the fire was at lis height water was
so scarce that tenants of houses which
caught fire from sparks were unable to OBJ
tain it in pals except by damming up in
the cutters the water which came from
the fire hose The iremen made every ex-
ertion possible, but the lack of water con-
stantly hindered their efforts. They sue
ceeded before noon, however, in getting
the fire under control, although it was
then still burning 1erce]y in some of the
buildings.
The walls of brick buildings fell from
time to time with a heavy crash.
In the confusion prevailing it was i'm
possible to obtain details of the losses and
very difficult to make even very low esti-
mate of their total. The amount of the
! lowest estimate is one million and many
persons place the amount much higher.
1t is reported many lives lost, but ru-
mors on this point are very conflicting.
1t is very probable that some workmen in
the piano factory were unable to escape,
but it is not known how many by any one.
The fire is believed to have broken out
in the fifth story of the building and it is
known that some workmen in the upper
stories had great difficulty in escaping.
One workman named Edward Packmas-
ter jumped from an upper window and
was taken up in terrible conditiOn-his
skull being fractured and many bones
broken. He was removed to station
house and died in few moments.
A few other workmen whose names are
not known were seriously injured They
were sent to Bellevue Hospital.
A woman is known to have died during
the fire, but reports differ as to whether
she was injured in attempting to escape
from building or died from illness aggra-
waited by the excitement.
1t IS believed by many persons in the
neighborhood that twenty to thirty work
men persisted in the piano factory but thus
far this is merely supposition.
Three alarms were sent out III rapid sue
cession and large force Of firemen en-
gagged and trucks responded to the call.
The heat produced by the fire was in
tense, and the firemen were obliged to
keep at considerable distance from the
burning buildings 1t is probable, how
ever, they could have prevented the fire
from spreading if they had had sufficient
supply of water The hydrants supplied
only scanty streams and some became en-
tirely drained in a short time
The row of brown stone apartment
houses on the south side of 35th street.
east of the factory, burned rapidly Their
inmates were able to save but small part
Of their property.
A number of shantics on the other side
of the street were also consumed.
The establishment of w. Il. Brown, Sal
West 35th street, is Quilted.
A strong wind which veered from point
to point carried sparks and fragments of
burning material In all directions. Sparks
blown to 10Sth avenue set fire to a number
of buildings occupied as stores and dwell
lings and three structures, 449 to 463 in
elusive, were burned Some of the occu-
pants succeeded in removing part Of their
furniture to the street but most Of it was
destroyed.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-The fire origi-
mated in Hale's piano factory, through
Nicholas Monk, varnish rubber, who was
heating some varnish over stove While
his back was turned it got ablaze ard the
flames spread like flash. He fled at once
for bis 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 abou,
two hundred men were employed in the
building at the time. In the seventh
floor were twenty six, on the 4tl
floor thiity-one, and on the 5th and
sixth and other floors, about 49, 1t can
not yet be ascertained how many have
been burned in the building The hatch
ways in one corner were opened and the
flames rushed to the upper stories as il
through fiue. Several firemen say that
from the windows of the upper story OF
the factory men were calling for ladders,
for help for Gods sake; but that the lad
ders were not long enough 10 reach them
and even if they were they could not be
placed in position owing to the intense
heat. Some fell to the pavement and
others, after wildly waving their arms
fell back into the burning mass behind
them. The great eight story walls on
Thirty sixth street fell almost without no.
fIce and those hurled under IT xrill MT hf