Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-08
THRILLING INCIDENTS
A NEW YORK FIRE.


story building on Park Row, New
York city. There were number OF
printing offices in the building. Other
business than that of printing was
carried on in the house. Some five
or six hundred people were employed
in the place. The origin of the fire
has not yet been definitely stated
People that did business nearest the
locality in the house where the fire
started say that they believe that the
fire started from the engine room.
The .he,c York Observer, and The Scien-
t,fc american had offices in the build
ing and are heavy losers. The build
ing was valued at two hundred thou
sand dollars. The house rented for
thousand dollars year. The
fire soon reached the elevator, up
which it ran with great speed; 30
rapidly indeed that people were
not able to escape from the rooms
where they were employed They
were driven to the windows, and
made their escape as best they could
Many were seriously hurt in getting
down; number were fatally injured,
and eight or ten, it is believed, per-
ished in the flames.
The THRILLING INCIDENTS,
as reported, are many; only few
can be mentioned here. Fire-escapes
were hastily improvised and several
men slid down in safety to the street
The crowd each moment grew larger.
As one after the other, with burned
hands and face, reached the street in
safety the crowd cheered- A woman
standing on the sill of the window of
the fourth story held on to a tele-
phone wire with her hand. She was
hatless and her clothing was in dis
ordered condition. She famed her
self with her right hand and waited
for assistance. Hold fast till l
GOMEZ shouted a brawny fireman,
and a score of brave men and boys
rushed forward and dragged a ladder
from a hook and ladder company that
mad just arrived. La an instant II
ladder was placed alongside the build
ing. 1t only reached to the third
story. A cry of dismay went up
from the crowd. "Push up another J!
a hundred voices yelled. Two fire
men jumped up the steps two at a
time. ''Can you hold a minute 2 the
leader asked the poor woman. Yes,
but for Gods sake hurry was the
hoarse reply. 'Come on, Ben, said
the fireman to bis companion ''D-n
the ladder, we must save her" and
up he went step after step to the top
and his hands just reached the wo-
mans feet. The crowd held its
breath in suspense; the woman look
ed calm and collected. Hold on to
the wire and step on my shoulder,
said the fireman. The woman did as
told, and as the brawny fellow went
TO move step she seemed to swoon
and had apparently lost her balance,
when the fireman on the other step
caught her and she was hastily car
ried to the ground.
A long wire connected a telegraph
pole to an upper Park Row window,
and by cutting the wire at the pole a
fire escape was improvised, down
which four persons slid from fourth
story window to the ground. One
man jumped from fifth story win
dow to the telegraph wires in front
Of the building and creeping along
them slide down the pole"
An old man and two young men
appeared at a fourth-story window.
People from the street looked up and
we're Mortified at the sight of the fire
approaching them The firemen were
throwing four streams OF water
around and about them, keeping them
wet and from being burned up.
Great efforts were made to save them.
a desk was brought out at the sug-
yestion of Mr.. Anthony Comstock,
and he braced himself, allowing the
adder to rest on his back. But
while the ladder was being put in po-
,ition one of the men dropped, in the
nope of catching it, and, missing his
,im, fell to the street, his head strik-
ng the curve with a sickening thud.
He was picked up-his name was
Davy-and carried into a
,igar store opposite and an ambu-
ance was sent for. In tine mean
lime, with the aid of the desk and a
score of stalwart arms, the ladder
vas placed directly under the feet of
me of the men. He was young
nan and further from the flames than
he other, but with display of brav-
,ry that called forth the cheers of
me hundreds who saw the act he
stretched OUT his hand to the older
nan and helped him to descend first.
Is the older man reached the SIDE
walk his appearance was greeted with
.heers and he was rushed over to tie
.igar store. He was uninjured; his
lame was A. Nj. Stewart and he is the
,ditor and proprietor of the Scottish
7mer,cdn Journal" Then the heroic
ToGng man that stood back to secure
he old man S escape stepped on the
adder and came down. His name is
Moore, compositor ON the
,aper of which the old man was edi-
or. Two girls, shortly after the
lanes were discovered, appeared at
he windows of the third floor on the
3eekman street side. A ladder was
quickly raised to where they were
and shouting for assistance,
IIr. +. Herrlich sprang up the ladder,
md taking one of them in his arms
proceeded down the ladder amid the
shouts and applause of the specta-
ors. After delivering up his charge
le again went up the ladder and
down the other girl
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