The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-14

RAPID SPREAD OF THE FLAMES.
The fire spread with lightning rapid
itv and before Bunses hsd destroyed
property worth nearly 100000.
Ex-Supervisor John Reed, who was re-
hearsing with the choir in the Methodist
Episcopal church, two blocks away, in
the rear of the tabernacle, had dis
covered that the building was on FIRE
and sent in an alarm to the fire head
quarters. This WAC quickly followed by
n second, third and fourth alarm,
which brought out all the apparatus
in the western district of the city.
It WAS nearly 20 minutes before the
6remsn arrived on the scene. and ths
streams of water were turned on the
blazing pile. But the church WAS
doomed, and yvery effort was devoted
to saving adjoining property. In three
hours only the bare walls OF one OF the
costliest structures of Brooklyn re-
manned standing.
HOTEL REGENT DOOMED.
Long ere this, however, it became
evident that the Hotel Regent was also
doomed. The frs started here on the
second story, but was speedily extin-
guished. This proved to be only tenn
porary relief for little later flames were
discovered in an upper story, blowing up
fercely through the air-ehafts. The in
fiammable nature OF the hotel and the
great opsn amphitheatresof the taber-
nacle have such draft tn at the fire
WAS forced in the air-shaft in columns
of glowing flames that made fearful
picture of destruction.
Flakes of burning wood and red--hot
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and carried by strong breezss, they
swept through the air in every direction.
Before long the buildings on both sides
of Green avenue were ablaze. So were
those on Waverly avenue, but fast as
they broke out the people and firemen
extinguished them. The walls began to
crumbs and fall and the great rush OF
flames which followed started the houses
burning again, and at the same TINS
flames were seen bursting forth from the
Summerfeld III. E. church, short dis
lance away.
RESCUE OF HOTEL GUESTS.
Within half an hour the magnificent
hotel was seen to have joined the taber-
nacle on the road to destruction, and no
water could reach the fire there. The
gaests had lost no time in making their
escape. They waited only to snatch up
few valuables and run. Wearing APP
parel and other effects had to be left to
the greedy flames.
From the fifth floor of the house Mrs.
Loomis, one of the guests, and her
newly-born babe had to be carried down
the fire escape to the street. A woman
appeared at a window on the eighth
door. shrieking and waving her hands
to the horror-stricken crowd below. She
was brought down the fire escape in
safety.
The heat OF the showers of sparks and
embers had made this situation a most
trying one for the fire department, and
George Cunningham OF Engine company
10, had to be carried from his post when
the heat was most intense, but he af-
towards returned.
John Lately, Engine No. IA, had an
epileptic fit from the heat and was re-
moved to the hospital.
FALLING OF THE WALLS.
After the flames had licked away the
supports beneath nearly all the fire
escapes on the north wall of the hotel,
large portion of the walt itself fell into
the mass of debris with roar like
distant cannonade. This was quickly
followed by the fall of section about 80
feet in height on the Waverly avenue
side of the hotel, and from that time up
to p. m. huge masses of wall continued
to fall. At laet accsHRts two more fire.
men, Edward Sheridan and John Kelly
OF Truck No. /, had been pro5trated by
heat.
The furniture in the hotel, which cost
from $780, 900 to $3.50, 900, is entirely
destroyed. The total loss on the build
ing and its contents foots up in the
neighberhood of $850,000. The loss
falls upon the Brooklyn Hotel company.
THE LIST OF LOSSES.
The list OF losses apart from the taber-
nacle and the Hotel Regent is about as
follows:
No. 3S5 Clinton avenue, occupied by
Louis Hersch, $2500.
Mr.. 2l8,Green avenue, DR.. Monmony,
$4,000.
No. 1870 Green avenue, s. W. Reeve,
$500.
Corner Green avenue and Waverly, ].
H. Pepper. $500.
Nc. 14l Green avenue, corner, Waver-
ly, Joseph Hart, $4,000.
No. 143 Green avenue, Mrs. Catherine
Crawford, $ZUUU.
No. las Green avenue, unoccupied,
$500.
No. lab Green avenue, Mrs. Marga ret
Crawford, $1,000.
No. 149 Green avenue, DR.. j. F. At
wood, $500.
No, 404 Washington avenue, G. H.
Harvey, $4,000.
No. 400 Washington avenue, unoccu-
pied, owned by G. Il. Harvey, $4,000.
No. 402 Washington avenue, DR..
Ketchere. $500
No. 1876 Washington avenue, G. r.
Smith. $500.
sammerdeld NJ. e. church, corner
Washington and Green, Rev. w. Welch,
$4,000.
Other buildings were slightly dam.
aged.
The loss on the Hotel Regent ia
placed at $850.000 by the manager, but
this will be greatly increased by the in.
dividual losses to the guests. The loas
ON the church is not far short of
$500,000
RUSSELL sAGE's MORTGAGE.
Russell Sage, who has a mortgage OF
$l25,oo6 on the church property and is
also the owner of the site on which it
stood. is fully insured. He said this
evening:
ut is probable the people OF Brooklyn
will come forward with big subscrip-
ton. The insurance will cover the rest.
If they want to rebuild 1 will put no OBJ
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