New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-06
LANES IN OLD ST. MICHAEDS CHURCH,
x-,rxs MARCH CHILDREN FROM A SCHOOL WITH
OUT CONFUSION.


OUT CONFUSION.
o,,ck and clever work BY frcmen yesterday saved
from destruction the old Roman Catholic Church Of
:. Michael. The church, OF the staclicT and
b,odsomest Of It's kind IN the city, occupies-with It's
ohool buildings-neary a whole block NinhlVe.
nd Thirty -sccOnd-s North OF the church in Thirty
ncondst Is the janitor's house South of the church
and running along the Ninth-ave. from, to Thirty
erstst is the school. How the fire started no one
Knows Just before IL O'Clock Mrs. Wilkinson. the
wife of the janor was sitting In front room Of her
bouse with her children, while her husband was
Getting coal, when from the OF the third Moor
ame a gush of smoke as from an explosion. followed
nv CLEAN Of flame. Wilkinson seized his children
and followed by his wife rushed out OF the house
shouting alarm. Engines No. 81 and No. - were
IN the spot and at work almO, Immediately. In the
school at that 1.40O children were receiving
their morning reading lessons. No one at that time
believed that the church the school building Was
in danger, but Father Gleason and Mother superior
xavier of the Nuns OF the Annunciaton, We're pre-
mred for all emergencies.
II did not take battalion Chief Reilly more thah
minute 10 discover that the church was III ud'sc'
md when IT found that the flames III the rear oi
the jantors house were licking the caves Vi inc
northwest corner OF the church he promptly sent Out
,ro more alarms and several special calls refer
Vetter foreman OF a company, saw fire darling aoo"
the north end OF the wood peaked roof and called 10
Father Gleason who. with his assistant priests ana
attaches made all haste to save the altar ana Inc
many large and costly pictures In the church he
CARELESS OF the molten lead which fell upon them from
the roof and windows. they stood maniuly TO Weir
work until the pictures were all lodged III place oi
safety Father Gleason Is suffering from badly
cut hand
Mother superior Xavier sooner heard tiat the
fire had touched the church than she struck the sSn
for the fire drill. At each landing a nun was s'!
toned and the Mother superior, standing at the 1901
If the stairs, gave the order TO march The uniest
NJ the small children first and t1mped out OF
The building with n cooness and steadihess wihch
wou,d have put many an older person 10 shame.
They were followed in regular rotation by the oldcr
uuuls until the building empted.
last as the children reached the street captain
OConnor came up with reserves from the sixteenth
Nineteenth Twentieth and Twenty scoond precincts
while Inspector McAvoy, who had seen the hrc from
an elevated car, took command OF the forces. inc
Gn, fines were crowded will, children and the work
M removing the little ones 10 place OF sliStl was
REFORMED with such that no one suffered tnc
slightest injury. The fire nm along the lolt Oh tEc
cnnrch burning the top of the organ ana DESTROYING
stained. glass windows In It's way unll II got Wltmh
ten feet OF the altar circle. where II was stopped
The loss, which Is protected by insurance, VIII not
exceed S35OOO.