The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-11

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| with the flames was the most serious tho
| Worlds Fair department has had on its hands.
| The fire was an intensely hot one. Firomen.
/ guards. and workmen about tho building were
| FRUSTRATED by the heat. Whom tho IRE had be on
| burning ON hou. the Worlds Fair stables. to
| tho south OF the cold storago warehouse
caught fire. Goth buildings wero completely
| destroyed
by 1 o'clock tho flre was under control and
| at 5 the melancholy work Of searching tho
| ruins for the bodies Of tho brave men who
| were lost was commenced.
| CHIEF SWEETNESS REMARKS.
ut WAS n bad building for our boys. and
| poor Fitzpatrick com planned OF 1t a month
| ago." said Chief Sweenie. Murphy never
! liked tho looks Of tt He said 1t WAS the only
| one on tho grounds that would cause the boys
much trouble.
1t was q frame structure. with this staff
| covering on tho outside. It looked solid
| enough. but inside It was stack of kindling
| wood. Murphy made diagram Of that tower
and sent 1t to me with n statement that 1t was
| q risky place Then. about o month ago soon
after tho other recent blaze Capt. Fitzpatrick
complained Of the building. could tell by the
way he wrote that he regarded 1t us trap.
The chief cause Of complaint was the tall tower.
where the boys stood when they leaped to their
death.
Tho boys would hdve- como out all right
but for two things The ropes upon which
they depended to swing down from tho tower
were burned off by q shoot of flame
that swept . Ggs Of tho windows o,. on
iSr their ropes That cut them hem of fs there
Tn Then tho explosion under the ROOT prevented
1T was horrible tliDU-the worst that has
happened to our boys since 1857. Then the
sss bsSss RssasH sa fs Es ss
tho ruins, and nine citizens, died with them.
compared With the loss Of life to- day, ''''''
There was "a, report at the grounds yester,
NE BSEnha% denied tGs Ta%95 TLs Fiery
G s sadi s9 seat send out
S Of ass ms to au nsns seDE
coal guards gu were sent down to put their fires
out Then they used hard coal"
THE DEAD.
BREEN. PHILIP b. Truck g
CAHILL. JOHN. Truck =.
;5 5oas T4aeE bIes at Emersen.
MouhTEE. Lieutenant Truck 10.
PURvIs. CHARLES. Lieutenant Engine No. 4
soa aT; PDEao PAu III t Trucs s.
SMITH. JOHN A.. driver engine.
Un X q American; initials on belt p. W."
Four Columbian Guards: names unknown.
DEMING. WILLIAM. fireman. Engine Com
F1rzrArRrck. JAMES. Captain Company ?.
h HShS t d.: epteRaI1dt G0mpany
partment
THE INJURED.
Thomas Barry. Captain Of Truck 8. right
arm broken in two places.
Frank Biclenberg En- CINE Company l, jumped
from the tower; receiving severe internalin-
ii. Breek onridee. CoIum ban. Guard. Com
pany 80 slipped down line Of hose. blister
John devils. fireman. truck No. 9. slid down a
line Of hose after burning his hands and face
Dsys tSs the first OF the to
both hands burned and cut By falling gears
James Kenyon. Marshal Twelfth Battalion,
Martin Kimball. Columbian Guard. Com.
pany4 hands burned and leg .sprained.
William Lenehan. driver OF Engine No. 3,
w. Lynch. fireman. scalp severely cut.
T. j. panahan fireman. hands burned.
ws fshs Fr.n rEemn Iam eyes burned burned
2, jumped from the tower. bruising his body
and face in numerous places; ~
Fred Goets. laborer. right hip bruised.
Gated and Lett hand biistere d. ~ n''l' ''''
John Mcbride fireman of Truck 8. leaped
w. T. Mah0nsS ' frem man, Engine Company l.
3u%d Poet Sn a1 baGy 5ef' his right
aspn|KSiated; recovered after treatment at the
Nordrpm segward. fireman; Engine, Com
and burning his body and arms.
George Paris. fireman. Engine Company g.
hands and arms bistered.
FIREMAN FAULKNER's STORY.
Frank J. Faulkner hobbies around on one
Faulkner belongs TO hook and ladder com pany
No. 8. which was on the fatal tower and which,
death. Faulkner was on the tower '' it was IS he
who made that awful jump to the roof DO low
al al his
said $sat5 ss1~ bss s SO
three upper doors .tail past mG-but Ipoyef
JUMPED before. That was all that saved me-"
nremen in the tower. but don't know sw't the
exact number. Twelve men OF our company
DOZEN IN Columbian Guards went with us but
we chased them down before the tiro became
serious; SUPPOSE they all reached the ground
Wien Es vent into h the tower We had S no
like this one and knew Just how we would have |
TO work The two fires before made this one |
worse. The wood on the top OF the tower had |
been partially charred or parched. by the other |
more rapidly this time.
The construction Of the tower made 1t a |
trap. Although the fire was at the start IN the
very top of the tower. burning embers began
to fall very soon and set fire to the dry wood
caught ard burned like. matches. 1t was |
Ike fire In an eleyator shaft. ., 4
cd the draught inside the tower. The |
Are cracked and roared up through the chin
ney formed by. the walls Of the tower like a
furnace, The flames shot above US and made |
the tor OF that tower look like n rolling-mill |
chimney. The crowd down below warned us
have ESCAPED. We didn't realize our danger. |
THE dropping embers caught below. as |
have said. and burned through the stairway