The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-12-21

| REIDEL. PHILIP. resides m Fifih stree. burma
| Bellevue Hospital
scHLITzEN. JOHN, aged 10 No 2u Fourth street.
| New York Hospital.
sCHLIzLAIN, FRANK, aged IL, No 7sl Washing
ton street; rishtuy burned and scalded about the
head, face and chest; hts recovery 10 considered i'm
| possible New York Hospital.
| SCHROEDER GEORGE. aged q, No as Fifth
street New York Hospital
| SUNDAY, HENRY. aged 10, No 5l3 East Twelfth
| street. Bellevue Hospital.
| STACK, ANTHONY, aged %, No 500 Fifth street.
| Bellevue Hospital
STARK, PETER, aged 50, No 500 Fiflh street, fore
man Of the rst floor, badly burned abou. the head.
face and arms HIS recovery is considered doubtful.
Now York Hospital
SCHNEIDER, GEORGE, aged 80, No. ais Fifth
| street. burned about head face an chest New York
Hospital
sCHENNEwALD. JOSEPH, aged a. No. 6l3 East
Twelfth street, severely burned about the lace and
chest Hts recovery Is considered doubtful, New
York Hospital
THOMPSON. WILLIAM, IA years, No. l27 Ninth
street, slightly burned in face and foot. and suffering
from confusion OF tho head; reported badly injured
Chambers Street Hospital
WRIGHT. JAMES W.. No $40 West Twenty second
street. log broken by the conclusion while walking up
Barclay street.
Web, GEORGE, aged IS, No. ll3 avenue A.
Web, 0rr0, aged Is. No. ll3 avenue A.
SCENE At NIGHT.
A. haifpast ten o'clock the bremen began to mount
the heated debris 80 as 10 play upon heap Of empty
cases that had caught the OF No Barclay
stree. Gradually the Are was being subdued though
tho heat still intense ana tho black
smoke almost stinsg. NO sooner had the danes
disappeared than word was sent round. "Begin tho
search" The scene at this time weird and
| striking Dense volumes Of steam arose from tho
ruins The kissing water from dozen powerful
engines darted through the mist. seeming 70
divide into clouds Tho sparks from tho
engines dew up ABOVE the buildings ON all sides
OF the destroyed factory. giving the district the ap
Learancc OF huge iron foundry Away up tho top
Of the tall building Immediately In tho roar OF Green
Dcd's could DO seen The lantern or the Chief
Engineer IKE . red star through tho murky
atmosphere From each side OF the light Z broad
stream OF water descended upon that portion OF the
ruins next to College place. Tho crowds surged back
Into Greenwich street under tho strong pressure
police. ana the low anxious murmuring. gemisse
mea could be heard above tho snorting engines and
| the rapid orders OF the nre captaiua
Collcct your men" shouted the engineer charge
| on Barclay street, sand get 10 work, quick ~
Three aremen started toward tho crowd ON Green.
wich street. Volunteers easily obtained. Five
hundred mon could have boon to work with In
nvc minutes Some thirty thirty nvc woro selectcd
and admitted inside shs lines Their names were
taken and the work Of clearing commenced
| AMONG THE RUINS.
| The broken express wagon, whose horse and driver
| had been killed by the explosion, lay directly in the
OF the street. opposite the spice mills Of Mon
tagne & Co., held down BY tho iron front or the
| Greenfield factory. Ropes attached TO this
| and tho volunteers, like . line OF pigmiss
amid the floating vapor, shouted and hauled
and tuggsd until tho shattered vehicle drawn OUT
| This was beginning, at least Bricks and iron and
masses OF molten sugar. which looked like white lead
wero next taken from the road TO tho side
| walk, 70 the edge Of tho gaping cavern lei,
| by tho exploded boiler. The heat was now
intense Little tongues OF nrc continued to dart ur
here there all tho front Of the ruins whilc
Aelose examination beneath the intcrstces between
the beams melting pans and other indcstructible ma
scrsl forming the mass vast fsvnaos could be ssen
| which tue dripping water and spray only seemed
| 10 expand. BY degrees tho MOBILES slstensd some
ten the sidewalk; tho arsmen had ceased 70
play on the heated walls Of tho surrounding houses
aud were directing jets OF water downward as tc
cool the rubbish and facilitate the advance OF the
seafchers ss.~
George D. English, whose house stood next TO MI
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~eariIy against a doospost watching the progress OF
the hrcmen and their assistants .For thirty years
lived that spot" he said "My father lived in The
ward sixty years boiorc Ny mother barely escaped
with her life, my vito unable TO secure SC
much as bonnet. stand here with all possess In
tho world. did not save S. Tho little household
gods, the family trnkets, BOOKS, mcmentocs
collected by my father and mother for years, arc
| all destroyed. We have nothing lett. But
We are fortunate enough compared with scores who
must be beneath thosc runs. God help mel l shall
never forget this Such and yclls, such
cries OF terror and disnay such Wild, frantic screech
| rg as heard In that building has made my hear,
| achen
eyes" said Mr.. G. A. Fall. whose place OF business
was almost opposite, ''it was awful Tho store and
| rooms were full OF customers and hands. saw bal
| few escape. How could they escapeS Tho building
fell In upon them, and they went down under
beams and iron In sucn a manner that nothing
but q miracle could save them The engineer
ana nrcmen must nave persisted Immediately How
many OF tho poor girls now being consumed there
(poinring with horror at the smouldorng mass) per
haps we may never know. for the firm was workin,
day and night to Nil Christmas orders, and probabi,
had some hands simply for few days am told the,
had $40 at work Wednesday"
And tho two men, both witnesses OF the terribl
|
iore them. OF the nciehborhood and the losses
.,rhere was the old English Consulate ana lhere th
we'll known Graham Temperance House," sal,
English, pointing IN tho difSesiop, Of Colss,
pacs, ..whcrc tho late hosace Greeley first met Miss
Cleveland. This material that you SEQ lying in III,
mud before you Of the FIRST iron put ur
in tho city Of New York"
.'Nothng can DO saved from that pile" whispered
q fireman he was hurrying past TO attack mass Of
flames that had burst forth again near No 90 ~
hall past eleven tho rubbish lying just south OF Tho
sidewalk began to cool, and the volunteers
commenced hurting back bricks, timber and iron
across tho street with great rapidny. The nremcn,
thor hose after them, gradually disappeared
over tho contrc OF tho runs, throwing tons OF water
upon tho debris every minute. The IRE was nov
completely undcr control II was possible that some
Of tho towering wallis weakened BY the explosion and
the heat, might fall upon and covor the brave fire.
men, but forward they pulled thc hose until they had
oirnos, reached the western edge OF tho .I'