New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-09
TWICE VISITED BY FLAMES.
r.nRANT & co. LOSE TWO OF THEIR
THREE BUILDINGS.
,rss THAN A WEEK AGO FIRE OCCURRED AT
THE SAME PLACE-EXPLOsIoNS AND
sTIFLING SMOKE DRIVE THE
F.REMEN BACK.

FREMEN BACK.
,,ro q, the three buildings owned and occupied oS
Torrant & Co., manufacturing and wholesale ur"s1ieE
., greenwich and Warren sts. burned ont yes'''
aar morning They are Nos $50 and 2s2 Greenwch-
:, svestory structures with browpstone fronts l"o
,h,, Of the firms buildings Is three stories higl h"o
Is constructed Of brick. 1t Is old building h'~'
stonds on the corner Tarrant & Co. began the or's
business there In 1884.
Carelessness By the Fire Department, or by tho
Insurance Patrol. permitted the fire Yesterday IL was
said There fire in the second story OF the
binding, NO 2S2 Greenwlch-st, on "Wednesday hS"'.
Int II was exnenshei apparently, after II had burnu
through fhe third floor IN places. Af:r the nciu'h
went away the Insurance Patrol had charge Of inc
building. A smell Of smoke. but no other sign OF fire.
vas noticed ~ the building Gn Thursday, Friday ana
Saturday. Mr. Miller fire insurance adlnster' was
IN ,e building on sunday taking account Of stock and
making estimates OF damage. Several assistants and
man from the Insurance Patrol were with him. None
M them noticed anything suspicious then. Miller ana
is assistants went back 10 work there yesterday morn
Ing Members Of the drug firm and their employees
were attending TO business in the other two buildings
T. r. Main. the superintendent, overlooking the
morr1ra mail vt q NJ. when to him
md said the fire had broken out again In No 2o2.
one OF Mr.. Mller's assistants had gone up TO the
fourth floor and had seen smoke rising through holes
which the Hrcmen had cut In the floor on Wednesday
night. Apparently some sparks had been left to
way slowly In tile spaces uDder the floor until had
got n fresh start.
An attempt 10 put out the fire with hand grenades
failed, and alarm rung 10 call the fremcn
again. by tho time the first fire engine arrived the
flames spreading rapidly In the upper stories, and
"A second slsrm sounded. third call WAS sent
n little Inter when the fire had extended into the I'D
Joining building, No. $50. Everybody got out Of the
buildings snd only one person was hurt p. ii.
Schulter, one OF the employees, had his finger cut
severely by piece OF broken glass.
fire. and frequent slight explosions kept tho hremen
out Of the upper stories. Trains rhe elevated rail
road In CSrecnw1chst blocked for hour while
TIM areinen took possession OF the structure and
from II directed streams Of water into the burning
building. The water down through the lower
stories and lowed ont into the street, scaldng hot.
X. W. Bullock md william ST. John, young men VINO
were at work resclhng OF the firms papers and
other things the ground floor had their feet and legs
scaded severely by the hot water The smoke from the
burning chemicals half chohci Of the remen, who
were near the buildings. The Homemade Hotel at No
"a Greenwich.st. was believed to be in danger at
one time. and the loarers took their baggage ont Of
their rooms but tho frcmen prevented damage to the
hotel. Tho flames were Kept out OF the Old build
Inc, No 27s also. but II nood'd with watcr.
The krs u the drug firm by both fires was snid IN
be nearly 100000. Mr.. Main said the firm had
about $3.50 900 Invested In the three buildings and
their contents The buildings Insured for $4,000
m about twenty cOmpanic and the insurance on the
stock wns divided ns follows: