Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-21
Disasters in Various Parts of the
Country.
FIREMEN INJURED BY FALLING WALLS
Over Four Millions in Gold Taken
Away.
THE KANSAS SENATORSHIP.
HURT BY FALLING WALLS.
Number of New York Firemen Injured
While fighting q Fire.

while Fighting a Fire.
NEw York. Jan. 21.-Seven or eight Of the
firemen Of the hook and ladder truck No. 8
were injured. three Of them seriously, at l 20
this morning by the fall of the west wall of
Story & Co.'S four-story storage warehouse at
the southwest corner of King and Washington
streets
The building is 100 by IS feet on the ground,
numbered 542s Washington street. 1t carrieda
heavy store OF merchandise. mostly provisions,
some Of which were rice. sugar and molasses.
Charles j. Bartell. foreman in the street.
cleaning department. discovered the fire shortly
before l O'Clock. The firemen who first came
encountered the difficulty usual in such cases of
getting ut the fire. because OF the iron shutters
that protected the windows.
The fremen of truck No. took up their po-
sition on the roof Of the one-story warehouse
Immediately TO the west on King street, which
hal been ruined by fire n wear or more ago,
and we're engaged in raising a ladder to the
burning building. when. with a crash, at LEO
O'Clock the west wall of the warehouse buckled
and fell on them.
The fi-emen ran at the sound and some Of
them escaped. bat seven and perhaps eight
were struck by the falling brick. The men had
been at work under command OF Capt. Van
Horne.
Chief McGill ordered ont firemen TO the rescue
and they rushed to the help Of their comrades.
Capt. Van Horne and Firemen Robertson.
Coyle. McCurran. Reynolds, Wall and Lawler
were taken from the ruins, all Of them hurt,
and several unconscious. Both OF Reynolds
legs are broken. Michael Walls ankle was
cut and he was cut about the head and arms.
Firem LAWYERS spine was hurt and he was
badly bruised. One of Joseph Coyle's
hands Is hurt and one of his arms is
broken. Robertson had a broken leg. McCurran
escaped with broken legs and slight injury to
the spine. Robertson, Reynolds, Coyle and
Lawlor were taken 70 st. Nincents.
The others did not 60 to the hospital Sew
eral of the injured men were taken into Jerry
McCar:hy's saloon, at 326 West street. where
rude beds were improvised for them until the
ambulances should arrive.
The saloon was besieged by a crowd Of men
and women with blanched faces. They poured
in ard ont of the place until the police we're
obliged to close the doors and shut everybody
out. The story WAS that half dozen men had
been killed. At las O'Clock the building was a
mass of flames.
Al 30 O'Clock a section of the wall on King
street, about fifty feet long. fell in one mass
right across the street, reaching entirely TO the
other side OF the street to the edge of line OF
trucks standing there and striking the men who
were watching the fire from the trucks. One
of the men Abraham Hull, superintendent
OF the insurance patrol.
The other was his driver, James Mcbride.
Hull not seriously hurt. McBride's LETT
leg was broken They were in front Of a stable
and thew were carried into the stable and were
attended TO there.
The fire was under control ut $50 o'clock
The burned building was occupied by Row
land Storey & Son and was owned by the estate
of ID. J.. kingsland. II is said the loss will
reach sl5o,eO The origin Of the fire is IN
known.