The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-05-14

moor. there we're women At the windows. Their
escape By the front way had apparently been
cut on. for they clsmbersd out out on the IRE
escapes They we're all SCREAMING The
screams Of the crowd below mingled with
their own was enough TO rattle ssteady-nerved
man. Probably not one Of the women can tell
nov how she did H. but they all got down
the IRE escapes upassistsd and uniniured.
chat IT, all but two. These two were hra
Arthur Loonis. = guest. and Mrs. Ksens. the
assistant housekeepsr. These women were
both sick and 10 bed. They managed to crawl
20 the windows when they heard the scream
ing and they stood there looking down on the
crowd below and stretching their arms out
sppsalinRiy. They we're there for fifteen min
utes watched by everybody who could find
time to stop running up and down the street
a. n they we're mad.
F1RENES NEARLY TWENTY MINUTES LATE
They were there when the first fire company
arrived. Report differs as to the length OF
time that had ELAPSED since the sending OF
the alarm by Mr.. Read. The church people
said eighteen minutes The neighbors said
twenty minutes. A reporter who was at the
church from the fret said fifteen minutes
whichever 10 right. there was an inexcusably
long delay. When the company arrived the
interior Of the church was a roaring furnace.
surf The smoke was coming from ever,
exit in swirlinR clouds that whitfield upward
swiftly ard darkened the sky until IT seemed
out one by one. scattering the crowd as each
one fell. Through these openings the red
ms ,Sped out hf @r. wSs
being roasted The paint was reeling OF. the
window frames were cracking a and falling out;
was burning in It's emal way almost as bright
" as was the church. DIR. Monmonier's house
back Of it and three houses back Of that were
A dozen houses two. blocks away In Wash
ns S Mb eoaa bs sot we're ON the
roofs lighting the flames with buckets OF water
9TH the AID q sasEdSn hos Church had
up there Stamping and nahtlng as IL their
p.Sps IL n. street 1n the roofs o. al the houses
round about were filled with persons. each OF
he Regent Aois eSs Whos e the
So1. e. e Will. ss
.nsns company to srrl1s didn't have m easy s
to R.p Th.Ps we're ten men to every foot q
hose and ~ to hSa It. .h:
KS. the s general D sTsznss s 'n', seemed
.,Thsy ran up and down with the rest Finally
company came: and the members put their
came. and finally at II. end Of hall an hour
and prepared to "" WORK. But It was too late late.
The hsadwa already gained by tho flames
had doomed the church and the hotel at least
neighborhood.
RESCUE OF TWO WOMEN
The plight Of Mira Loomis and Mrs; keene 10
q
y Smen not to Jump. There was no danger Of
LOOMS was crying out. for her baby. The
With it. Mrs. LOOMS knewi it, but in her fright
she had forgotten It. Hook and Ladder
and the membe Of It Giant sred up to the the
windows where tho women were. Mrs keens
sfss 9p IN sss wns the
for Mrs LOOMS. She had on her night dress
bhe tainted and the work Of getting her, down
in It. and the crowd cheered and cheere again
as they bore her down She was wrapped
street 70 SuseSsr shop shs sscnme Conscious
and walled and erieh for her child. The genera
EhGa Of Sy n
out the entire ambulance force Of the city and
the ambulance surgeons cared for her. She
her husband came from Savannah. Ga. While
the rescue was taking place at the back Of the
the front windows went on. But now the
bricks from the chimneys above and the
81 the eegan IT, fall and
tpre handlers down the ladders that
o, had sst TnS fairly
they escared breaking their pecks Is a mys.
terry. but they did. The fire IN the hotel. which.
building. spread m ost quickly toward the rear.
for the wind was In that direction. Hardly
Mrs. keene had been rescued. when the flames
were coming from the windows where they
had stood.
THE TABERNACLE ROOF FALLS.
The roof Of the Tabernacle was the flrst part
about half an hour after the fire Was dis |
fs@ss may be imagined The roof DIV went lin In
ss r0 ass had held the
fully 800 feet high; With the name there went
spread out. seemed . half mile across. and a |
volume Of Rray-blAek smoke made a back
ground that turned each spark into an electric
The wind caught the mass in moment and
hs edns an tbs G p1e W Inn sSeSae
we're enveloped in it,, and in some cases their
clothing was set on IRE The sparks hit them
homes. for as yet the Fire Department had
not found time to aid them.
RESIDENCES ABLAZE.
Whenever on single roof q spark III, the
Wind. which was blowing briskly. tanned It
into a flame. On the roofs OF some houses
here were dozen fires at once. but these
we're compAratiyely easy to care for. Here
and there the wind would hurl the sparks up
under the caves. where they would have "a
would blow them between the shutter
Stats. whore they would nre the window
'asing. and the fire would eat, its, way
INTO the house, TO be discovered only when it
mad suf1ieieht heAdway to threaten the de-
'truction OF the house; IL seemed to the
iremen got around TO help them, though 1t
vas barely half an hour. When they did GET
around to II there were half n dozen houses
olAzinR. Along Greene avenue Nos. l2S. 100.
md l32 were all on IRE, and the. fan es lrapsd
Ieross the street and ignited Nos. ll3. 10,
Al and l+0 In every instance the root
Jlazed up.
As fast as the hremen worked and extin-
rushed blaze in one place q little shifting
" the wind would blow the flames from an
adjoining house and start the FIRE again. or
,lse another shower OF sparks blown from the
,hurch or the hotel would TanTs Il. There
'eemed noesrape. Everything seemed doomed
o burn. But Greene avenue was not having
he hottest time. In Washington avenue
magnificent residences were burning. They
EeIe in q direct llue with the wind. |