Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-11-04
piTTSBURGH'S BLAZE.


A Long Row Of TeneHent Houses
Crushed by Failing waits-Thc Goods
Destroyed the Property OF seVer"i
Hundred Persons
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 2s.--Shortiy
Alter o'clock yesterday afternoon the
entire fire department OF the city was
summoned to Eleventh and Pike
streets. BY the time the first en-
pines on the scene were in service
ilames were bursting from almost
every window and door of the immense
building owned and occupied by the
Chautauqua Lake Ice Co. and the Pltts-
burgh storage Co. The building occu-
Died space of 800 by 1870 feet, was of
brick and stone, seven stories or ninety
| feet in height.
Hung by His Hands While He Roasted
Edward Spies, an employe, discov-
cred the fire and gave the alarm. lie
was working on the fourth floor. Az
most instantly he was enveloped in the
flames, and although he y tempted TO
fight the fire he was driven back to a
window fifty feet from the ground,
through which he made his escape. lie
crept ont upon the narrow sill and,
dropping down, hung by his hands un-
til rescued by the laddermen of track
A. His hands arms and face were llt-
erally roasted. 1t was scarcely tvs
minutes after the discovery of the nrs
until the great structure was abiazc OF
every floor.
A Welcome Rainfall.
A soaking rainfall aided greatly II
preventing the spread OF the fire whicS
at several times threatened destruction
to the many valuable properties IN TN
vicinity. Ate o'clock the occupants Q
surrounding buildings were notified t
d, move out. Between Mulberry alie.
I and Pennsylvania avenue, on the south
t east side of the burning building wer
t a cheap class of tenements, croWde
to suffocation with Polish Jews an
A Slavs who were thrown into panic.
A Fifteen minutes later the side OF III
, building fell with terrible crast
;, burving a long row Of tenements Jn'
vacated. Flames burst from the ou'l
ing dwellings, adding danger to tt
surrounding property At 9:3o ocioc
1t the four upper stories Of the Thlrteen'
II street wall fell outward, burying tt
l. street to the depth of ten feet ar
m crushing the house of John Glenn,
the opposite side of the street.
Is The Only Property Saved.
T. On the ground floor Of the war
Y, house were five loaded freight cal
OF lust before the crash they were draw
tn all burning, to a place of safety
all the hundreds of thousands OF tt
,p lars worth of property stored u !
-. building, these five carloads were
- that was saved
VI Va The large warehouses of the Have
~ Storage Co, on the opposite SIDE
~ pike street. caught fire several TIM
'Oe hut were not seriously damaged. L
rear of a number of the Pennsylvan
4s street buildings We're also severe
lr- scorched. The most serious dana
lat here was to Iliber's drug store, WIN
si- with contents was al most destroyed
re, A Number OF Narrow Escapes.
IT A number of narrow escapes W.
ID made by employees in the stora
,ut building. They were;
y ], Heilman, VINO dropped from th
n floor window to the alley. His inJur
IN are fatal.
,r Martin Griffith, badly burned: hu
-. from a window until rescued by
ION firemen.
'n 'e" Edward Spies, burned about
" :" head. hands and arms; may not
cover.
William Cox also rescued from
'ha third-hoor by fremen; badly burn
William Smith, burned about +
NJ and body.
of Frank McCann, of Engine Co. No
set struck by falling walls; legs fractur
am President William Scott stated
der night that the loss to the Chautan'
ON Lake Ice Co. and the Pittsbu
70. Storage Co. will reach ain
out 81, 900, 900. He could give no
.no mate of the amount of insurance,
the the papers were all locked in the 5
'n0 then in the midst of the flames.
Ga storage apartments, he stated "
Ne' filed with all kinds of goods, som
which were very valuable. These &c
ent are owned by probably several !
was dred different people, and are mo
eek insured by the owners, as well as
by the storage company. At 10 oe
ivi- last night the fire fire was burr
its furiouslv. confined by the totte
lied walls. which were white with the