The evening world., 1894-07-20
Sleeping Tenants Aroused by a
Stream from a Fire Engine.
There Was a Big Blaze in Nearby
Factory Buildings.
Thirteen Horses Blindfolded and
Saved Loss 100000.


side block, between Bank aud Bethune
streets and Greenwich aud West streets.
Tho greater part Of the block is oC-
cupicd 10y manufactures. but directly in
the roar are four big tenement build
tugs of the poorer clasS,
Hero the widest cAcitcm prevailed
~ tn. panic.strickeu inmates, clad only
in their night clothing, fell over each
u'hcr in their efforts to reach the
street The only means Of eErcas was
through two narrow alleys. which were
tillod with lines Of hose and excited
bremen.
Some of tho tenants slept calnly
through tho din until awakened by
streams of water from the nrc engines
one family was carried down ladders to
the street.
The Nrcmen were compelled to. fight
the flames from tho roofs of the big
buildings and from the narrow alley
ways leading from the side streets.
Thcy succeeded by hard work. In
mastering the flames after $4,000 dam-
age had been done.
Tlamas LAWYERS, a Waterman for
Buils putty factory, at li3 Bank street,
bright glare in Putty alley, two doors
away Putty alley extends back towards
the centre of tIc block. Win Juk'ph
pcaue'S stables ON tn" cast, and lass
4 lluSmau's can factory on the Wes'.
II didn't take the Waterman long 10
rum the length Of Putty alley ana ma
that AT the rear of the can factory. ON"
hundred and NIFTY feet from the street.
flames we're raging terccly IN hass "
ilusmln'S engine-rpnm.
The cries Of "hrc" which he uttered
a. he sped up the street towards the
nearest ime-hoN. aroused John Kennedy,
a foreman for Joseph Deanc who lives ~
a portion of the stable building with MS
family. ny the time Kennedy got into
enginc-room up the rear OF the can
factory building, and had fired an
enormous wooden Shed, covering stur-
agc, lot in the rear of the STRUCTURE, ,,.,r,
The shed was burning Win trlgltnI
rapidly. and the flames were last max
ing in the direction Of Il ive-sinry unocc
cupicl factory building to- the ives, OF
the shed and in the rear ol the staple.
There were thirteen horses in the sta
bic. and peane, with the assistance of
hystandors who had been attracted TO
the ,ssr,ne by his cries , sufHesue tba IN
safely from the building Just as the
first engine came rafting up
\ second and third alarm were AT
once sent out, as IT looked as thouSh
the block was doomed.
The ire was awk waraly situated, and
ny the time lines of hose wer" Stretthcu
through Putty alley, the scyen,slory
building of the FromCnt Steel Company,
next door west of the can factory, was
a roaring furnace.
The fire had eaten its way to the top
floor of the three-story can factory, and
was licking the sides of the unoccupied
building beside the shed.
| with the arrival Of the additional en-
Gines, two more alleyways We're USED,
| one Of them runs directly through the
| eight-story building of the New YORK
| Car Wheel Company, on the West street
| side of the block, and the other, only
| two feet wide on the Bethune street
SIDE between the tail front and rear
tencments.
by the time these different streams
had been directed on the names under
! pied building beside the big shed had
taken fire. 1t burned like finder, Until
recently 1T had been occupied by the
| Excelsior Box Factory, and IN moving
out they had left fully half the rooms
on the tive floors choked up with shay
| nEs and sawdust.
| once the flames got into this building
they shot from floor to floor rapidly.
| In twenty minutes every aperture
where window had been was mass
of fire, through which sheets of fame
| and showers Of sparks were forced by
the dense volumes of smoke which cir
| clrd around the fast-Crumhiins building,
! While most of the efforts Of the fire
| fighters were devoted to this structure
|
| the Bethune street side of the block.
The tenants in the four big tenementS
fronting on that street, directly behind
where the fire was raging, were in the
| widest state of panic.
Aroused from their sleep. to he met
by the rudly glare OF names, that
| lighted up sky and earth, they made
a nasty exit, leaving their belongings
behind, without even waiting to clothe
| themselves
Half mad with fear, they rushed
4 - q n,lg hs,n L
stumbling down the stairs, until they
finally ran screaming into the street
In the four rear tencments nearest
to the fire, tho alarm and excitement
| was intense From these tn" tenants,
and there Were ten families OF them,
had their only means of exit through
the little alicyWaY strung with hose and
crowded with working tircmen.
one of these rear tenements caught
IRE from the big shed. stream OF
water was directed towards II, and as
the gallons Of water flooded room on
the second floor the hrcmen We're sur
prtsed hrst by shout and then by n
white figure, with frantically waving
arms that appeared AT the window.
This was John Attrdge. with his wife
and three children: who had been
calmly sleeping in the room, until the
water poured I'm and nearly drowned
them. They were rescued Just before
tho roof Of what had been the building
Of the Excelsior BOX Factory fell with
a CRASH, ana the nls WIS uhltT CON
troll
The flames. from where they started
had burned the rear portion of the Cai
factory, entirely quitting the two upper
floors and making STcat holes in the
roof.
The box factory building is a totaI
loss, as we'll as the shed and "a two,
story brick workshop of the New York
Car Wheel Company. The Car-Whec
| Company's cight-story building was not
badly damaged. The seven-story build,
ing OF the r'romet Steel and Iron Works
was damaged considerably in the real
on the lower floors.
| The Eethuur street rear tencments
were only sCprChCd, hut the water did
much damage. Dedne's stables were
| slightly damaged.
The ircW"u consider the estimated
loss of $4,000 a conservative one.
NJ idea can h" formed of the ca use OF
the IRE, as. 1t is claimed, there had not
been u ire in the ruEinc-room, where II
started, for several hours.
On April 10 last lius- & Hgsman's can
factory, then located at rs and l32 Jane
street, was destroyed by IRE, II has
been rel Iilt since, and the firm hud
made preparations to move into the new
building next week.
STAND BY YOUR WIFE"
Justice Murphy, However, Advises