The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-10

he Is seriously IL not fatally wounded.
From POS Federal street the fire leaped
over to TO 22i. the adjoining building.
the ground floor of which is occupied by
the Carrolton's restaurant.
The granite front OF 219, the ground
floor of which is occupied by Chris Car
ven e. Co.. liquor dealers, crashed out
ward at 9:15 ana moment later the rear
wall fell. It was this wall that Is sup
posed to have buried the missing hremen.
AS the flames reached their height, and
just before the walls of 2l9 fell. the place
presented the appearance OF a volcano.
Fire and smoke were vomited upwards
to the height of nearly 200 feet In .
straight line.
The forked tongues Of the flames would
shoot outward from the funnel-shaped
mass and then 1t would clear for an in
slant. The flame that then launched it.
self forth with roar shot upward for
hundred feet.
Like a bursting Reyser 1t would sub
side for an instant and then again went
forth with its awful crackle.
The building where the flames originat-
ed was filed with wool and it blazed up
from the time the fire started 1t was
burning from top to bottom.
At 1910 1t seemed as IL the whole cor
ner of Summer aud Federal streets was
gutted.
The firms then being burned out were
White Brothers, wool, 175 aud 179 Sum
mer street; Corey Leather Company, 1863
Summer street; w. A. Stetson & Co., 1876
Summer street; Warren Stetson g. Co.,
1s5 Summer street; n. +. Graves, wool,
1877 Summer street; j. l. Brown a. Son.
lS5 Summer street; i. Dupee, ls5 Sumner
street.
The fire was almost In the heart Of the
wool district.
ia. M.-The fire is still burning, but
is rapidly dying out under the onslaughts
made upon by the firemen.
IL Is now stated that all the missing
firemen are accounted for. Six are at the
hospital, and Carrigan will die. His
limbs are paralyzed.
An employe OF Hecht Brothers is miss
| ing and is supposed to be buried under
| tie walls.
The fire was caused by the explosion OF
boiler in Hecht Brothers ,semsnt.
The escape OF the five members Of En-
gue l. who were supposed TO have been
buried, was a little short OF miracu-
lous.
District Chief Mullen and members oi
| hau In fha
alleyway leading from Federal to Lin
coin streets trying to raise heavy lad
ner to the roof of the tenement hous,
which was next to the burning buildings
The chief heard suspicious sound and
he aud another fireman moved out Of the
way, at the same time giving loud or!
of warning which the otner men needed
and dashed in under the archway ant
thus escaped the bricks aud mortrl
which came tumbling own from thre
stories high and completely filled up th'
passage way.
Poor Carrigan was the only one pennet
in.
The list of the injured taken to tn
Emergency Hospital is as follows: L
Malalor Engine Company, Is, struck b.
an electric wire. shock and head cut owe
the left eye; Jerry Duncan. a teamste
employed by knight 81 Sons, struck b.
an electric wire and hand badly lacerated
John Corrigan of Engine Company Gu
about the wrist and face wit
glass; + B. Watkins, superinten
dent of The Hathaway estate, badl
cut over the left eye by being struck by
an awning; Phillip +. Sullivan of Engin
Company s. overcome by smoke; Georg
Hall OF Engine Company 10, carried dow
with roof and received concussion of tn
brain and badly lacerated wounds Of fac
aud hands Lieut.. Gaffey OF Engiue Con
pany 26, hands and face badly injured
glass Richard X. Wylsh. employed
Hecht Bros, ankles broken by
fall; John Hslly. 80 years OF ag
who lives in South Boston. employed b
Hecht Bros, badly cut about the fac
and hands with glass when the roof fel
NJ. j. Mulligan, driver of Engine
caught between two engines and one le
bruised severely.
1t is estimated that the damage wi
amount to 81, 100000