New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-10


,.,-us Dec. 9.-Two fatal fires in the same
- followed each other in quick succession
49, ~, city last night and this morning The
-s Go broke out last night in the Boone Paper
1..rvs building and spread to those OF Bam-
~p streng a. Co., and Johanboeke a. Sons.
@ @~'g poone Paper Company's building and stock
20 entirely burned Ihe loss on s'ocN ID
s,a 400; insurance $4s,ooo.
Swh,ls the firemen were raking away the ruins
y. Roone Paper Company at 2 40 o'clock this
- there came the sound of terrific eX-
,..or in the building on the east of them. That
pouhercer. Streng 4 Co.'S building, four
high In an instant flames broke from
s~ soor and shot out through the roof
s NAV have been smouldering for several
iN ~ the cellars before the explosion occurred.
-'s fire in the Boone Paper Company's building
sppposed TO be out a little after o'clock
:, night. and later all the engines were with
~wr The ladder men were the only ones
:. They were watching the adjacent buildings
-, men were in the Bamberger, Streng q Cos.
49,. huilding at twenty minutes before o'clock
-. norninr. Laddermen McEvoy and George
"a were in the adjoining building OF Bliss.
rT.on & Co. terrific explosion was heard
mrvov and Duff rushed out. They escaped I'M
~, McEvoy says the explosion came from the
s-aarr of Bambergeg, Streng d Co. -Four men
..,s caught by the crashing walls and tlmbers
"a were killed Before the fire could be put
-, the buildings occupied by Bamberger, StrenS
a n dealers in boots and shoes; Bliss Wilson
4 ~ furnishing goods and notions; Weller,
w..,,olk 4 Payne. boots and shoes, and Johan-
,,'ts 4 Sons hats, had been burned out The
lse, and iusurances were as follows; Bamberger
s,sDg e. Co.. loss Sl25, 900, insurance 100000:
r,,, Wilson a. Co., loss O,O0O, insurance S40,-
sN. Weller Voolfolk Il Payne, $4,000, in
.-noe unknown: Johanboeke d. Sons, loss $4O,-
100 insurance $4,000.
Il was with great difficulty that the fremen
,,vented the flames from spreading further.
number of people were sleeping in the upper
,urs of the buildings, but all escaped
sa. H. another fatal fire was raging in
"a Menne Il Co.'s wholesale candy and fancy
,r.srv house. square above The Boone Paper
ioupanys building. The origin of the fire is a
pvtery. Forty girls were at work wrapping
z,dy on the fourth floor, and all were not aoie
N scape. The fire was out at ii O'Clock, ana
u, work of taking out the bodies began. Inc
odts of six girls were taken out. all badly
tuned. G. T. MEME, brother of the senior mem
hr Of the frm is supposed to have been burned
70 death. The fire cut off escape by the stair
xsy leading to the fourth floor, where the girls
ssre al work. Many jamped from the windows
70 secondstory projection. and escaped with
broken limbs and bruised bodies. Others goS
out unhurt
With its forces weakened and demoralized by
the accident of the early morning, the FIRE De'
parrept was called to the third disaster OF the
candy factory.
To add to the casualties and the CONFUSION.
Major Hughes, Chief of the Fire Department., was
hdF hurt in an accident early this morning he
md Henry Weatherford, the Chiefs assistant.
rrsed up Market-st. to what seemed big nre.
Inv happened to get on the wrong SIDE OF tne
rr,et. as Major Hughes himself says. The salvage
S,rs wagon ran into their buggy as they were
nudly driving up the north side OF the street
nd ran over them. The buggy was smashed ana
a, horses trampled on both Chief Hughes and
Esstberford. The latter's wrist was badly hurt
laor Hughes was taken TO his bed ana the
,oetors fear trouble on account of erysipelas'
Waterford, with badly damaged and much
lspdaced hand, was able TO be at the o'clock
Ire
Going TO the fire, the No 13 engine ran into
be curbing at Twelfth-st. and Broadway throwing
"a the engineer, James Nuttall, hurting his back
nd probably crippling him for life. He was
nken to his home, Broadway. between Thirteenth
md Fourteenth its
Patrick Shea member of the No. l hook and
hdder company, was at work on top of the build
hg occupied By Frank A. MEME d Co. lie fell
but grabbed at the broken skylight. He saved
himself from fatal plunge, but nearly severed
lis hand from his arm at the wrist. In the face
q these msfortunes and disasters and terrors, the
tenen stood bravely to their work, and new
ks9n took the places of those removed.
assistants Bache and Adds directed them.
The water-tower was manned and
d'1en streams were Drought to bear on Menne's
pace. Within half an hour the flames
we're under control, but within this time number
VI lives were sacrificed. OF the forty girls, sew
s'ai escaped only at the cost of grievous wounds
The fire is supposed to have started from one
the candy furnaces, which may have exploded.
~ any rate. the flames communicated with the
" stock Of Christmas fireworks The first ex-
s<lon among the fireworks scattered firebrandS
* we shape Of Christmas fireworks all over the
sss The skylght fell in, and the entire stool;
's scely blazing almost Immediately. The sky
N1ss Roman candles and giant fire-craclSers
.-Ted the work of the fremen. and made it
,-1eaingly dangerous for them until the last one
'~e1pDded. The loss on Menne d Cos building
Io sock is placed at $4,000, and the total loss
va nearly S750,0O0. The flames were stopped
T" 'eO'ge W. Wicke & Co.'S cotton-house.
i@ four firemen who are missing, and who
W. 10 doubt, buried in the ruins of the Bam-
srsa Streng Il Co. building, are William Moore.
s'sa sHian Davis, Samuel Baker and Tony"
. AT east six persons are known to have lost
'H , hves in the fire at Menne & Co.'s place.
."e bodies, all those Of young women, have been
'''ersd These six are Charles Kimmel, the
n''s thirty years old and unmarried; Barbara
MI s5 Cara Rausch, Ida Aarker, Anna Lockhart
II Ijs.A anna Dickey. Those who are injured are:
"s ,,sI'. Ihreenleaf, cut on side OF the head and
eS dS'to t about the body: Theresa Holilhans, face
sd sds sssnds burned and bruised; George King, face
sr IIands burned and bruised: and Kate McCIar-
STSdiy injured internally.
h =. Menne, brother OF the senior member OF
3 urn, urn, is missing, and is supposed to be in