New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-19

reason to believe that one man had perished In the
narrow wing which ran from the rear OF the buldihs
No. % Bleecker-st to Mercer-st James speiiihah'
member of the Insurance PATROL No =, in Great Jones
St.. was missing lie had been sent INTO 'he rear oi
the wing from Mercerst. with Thomas McCadden,
conrode IN the same company, and they were at work
irving 10 protect property the third floor when the
flames attacked the building. In the binding smoke
they became separated. McCadden managed 70 reach
the roof I'm an exhausted condition, and he escaped
lie reported later that lie had last seen spelman on
the third floor Of the wing Members of the Insurance
Patrol were set at work by superintendent Hull 10
search the building early In the forenoon. They over
haulcd the rubbish several floors for hours without
finding Spellmans body. A report that ne had peeh
seen at his home, No. 81 Macd0ugal-at early III 'hc
morning. was Investigated, and found to be untrue.
AT D. m his corpse found on the third moor OF
the wing near the junction with the buildng III
Bleeckerst Ii had been charTcd so completely that
IL was recognized with difficulty a human BODY
Ills KEYS and badge, which were found IN the ashes
OF his clothing enabled members OF the insurance
Patrol 70 identify his body The police covered 'he
bIacleDed corpse and carried 1t 70 the station III
Mercerst TO await a cOroncr's permit for burial
speman was forty years old and was wido~er
with one SON. sixteen years old. His home was Win
his brotherin -law George smith, at NO. 81 Nacdoueai
ST. His wife died several years ago. The oea'h Va
spe,lman was similar to- that OF his father, VINO was
member Of the Fire Department ana was purlc' "
death at fire in 1855.
CROWDS AT THE SCENE.
All day long Yesterday the ruins of the great fire
we're looked at by changing but large crowd Oh per
sons Policemen were kept busy III Bieeche' anu
Greene SITS. telling the people to move Oh, -,
ular pieces of the front walls OF the Cohieio DOOi'
stood like monuments in the waste, anu 'nc eU "'l :,
OF the building still reached unbroken 10 heish' VI
100 foot ahove the mass of rubbish that filled the ce
lar The car tracks in Bleecker-st were cleared carry
in the forenoon but Greene-st. Tor nan olo'N ~
covered with bricks and iron beams ~ s""e "
laborers spent the day removing the ruopis" i'o VIZ
car tracks there. on the west side OF Greche-s. WV
story dwelling house No ISL looked as II II hau
suffered bombarlment. The end OF ldii'ie -
beam had made hole. five feet In diameter minus"
tho front wall near the roof. wooden lndlah III
front OF the house had escaped injury, but the ooo
and window Of the cgar-store to which INC in
lonced had been smashed. The iroht vi uio o,
was In a shaky condition, and policemen "''"'O
away from it, .,, nv tho
rho tas, ~ estimating the loss sustained ny '''
bf sufferers from the Beeckerst fire Is as vet i0o
n,etc All through yesterday the hieinoei' - 49,
varlous firms concerned were trying 10 FORM sun
of the extent of the damage but at least WV ' .
elapse before they arrive at an exact anu
calculation. Early in the morning Messl'' D! n
and their fellow-victims began scnrryms a'o"'u n
,oigbhorhood in search of temporary oIIces anu '
peniamin firm quickly found l0dgmeh' a'
Grene-st within Fifty yards OF theii oi' - g,
Through the morning and afternoon laie0 ~
,ber clerks were sending out explanatory 'nO"%,
letters by the thousand to the nrms euS,one'' 81,
ovor the continent. The business OF the lo'9e WV
wv. d inst as soon as the firm is able to ma
ortors suitable for their purposes. The memoero Va
,ho firm wc,e unable and unwilling to MAKE any eS"
mate CT figures.
ESTIMATING TIE LOSS.
81, will he at least two and perhaps thiee' uaSS
before we can arrive at positive statement saw
. is
60, reon,e 10 ask for such information untll VIC nav
had an opportunity Of examining our DoSS 600 wor,
probability there was lrOn iIc fire broke out That
loss is more than covered by Insurance len VIC Am
to consider the loss on oohfaIs and there is no
which simply cannot he Galcu , " ~ tine next
insurance ON contracts In the COu ~. . "a
three days we may be able T. re Of nov confeds folly
had an insurance of only SD 800 on the e gu'H 10
ing for which he gave In some quarters
However it i said that Mr. Mendel gave on! Slooo0'
ior la n9 saks CO. believe that they have
lost from 100000 Si5o,00O in stock ana no
hmse Rely thus to he involved in net loss ranging
All the way from $4,000 to S@oooo' ih1 100 "rS
established temporary snnnt busy day in
Igo their Tor esumng business or
in receiving the sympathetic VlsiS Vi ''''' '-''N
FINDING NEW QUARTERS.
F. v. Connect the wholesale halter whose store
took up tile whole of the ground floor OF the han''ci
slough & saks building, has removed TO NO i
and % waverIey Place. TO all newspaper men,
yesterday he said that he had not yet oeen aDS
Of ias haers trimmings and other materials, Is
necnarly difficult to value. II is. however bceVcd
iIst MIR Connect will escape with loss OF little
over 100000, of which is covered BY lnsurahte
sylvester Ievacher & Co.. OF NO 20 Greene 81.
GOV thev lost $4,000 and were insured for $1,000
The building. which owned by Dr.: E Ga0 r.
Marcy, is damaged TO the extent OF s1o,VoVc: "a ~
schvartz who occupied the ground Noon OF NO. ~
Greene.st declined Yesterday to give any indication
nj his loss but VI. II. Rosenstein, the ostrich leather
maker who owned and occupied the LITTLE old three
story building adjoining the mammoth Cohnfeld struc
IRE told his friends that the loss on his stock ana
furniture would probably be more than $4,000, or
rather more than four times the amount OF MS lhsr.
ance. The building carried insurance to the amount OF