New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-30
A LIVELY DOWNTOWN FIRE.
IT GAVE THE DEPARTMENT HARD
STRUGGLE.
LOSS ESTIMATED AT ABOUT 10000 SUFFERED
BY TENANTS OF A BIG FULToN-sT. BUILD
ING MANY ENGINES AND TWO
WATER TOWERS NECESSARY TO
PUT OFT TIE FLAMES.
PIT OFT TIE FLAMES.


PUT oUT TIE FLAMES.
destructive fire broke out yesterday after
noon at $50 in the sx-story brick building on the
southwest corner of Fulton and Gold SITS. COW
ering Nos. SO. A. Sc and IS FuIton-st'
and running a good distance south In Gold-st
The loss is estimated at about 100000. Three
alarms were turned in In quick succession
II was at a time ~ day when lower Broadway
was at It's quietcst The cars were carrying home
ward many gay,y attlrcd day people who had
been spending the day al Conoy Island and other
resorts. when suddenly down Broadway and from
several side streets came tearing fire engines and
tho hook and la lder and hose trucks.
Had there been only engine the average
New-Yorker would hardly have given II pass
Ing glance. Two would not have made him
pause But they kept coming-three four, five.
SIX eight. ten-untll there WAS almost a pro
ccssion ~ punging foamng horses hammerng
their iron-clad hoofs against the resounding
stones. and pulling the smoking engines down
into narrow old Fulton-st.. whore hungry flames
were making a magnificent meal Of five-story
building AT the corner of Fulton and Gold SITS.
CROWD SOON GATHERS
The exclusively business thoroughfarcs in the
neighborhood " the fire were completely deserted
a
large column ~ smoke that slowly lifted itself
into the evening sky and tho clang and clatter
Of the engines caugh, the attention of tho thou
sands and the surrounding blocks were quickly
aued with an excited crowd Of both sexes and
all ages.
At first the spectators settled In the immediate
ncighborhood II the burning building. but the
intense heat as the flames burst from the win
dows and the falling cindcrs plnes of glass and
other wreckage soon established a fire line that
scarcely needed the reinforcement Of the police
when the latter arrived on the scene.
In all i've alarms were turned in bringing
about twenty engines and two water towers 70
the scene
For TWO hours and half the flames and the
nremen had as stubborn a battle as they have
experienced in many day.
The origin 4 the fire Is unknown as yet. but
II probably. started in the basement of 80. so
Fulton-st near tho air shaft As x was only A
short time before great volumes u black smoke
wer. n1urlng out of the top ~ the building. fol-
lowed IN Few minutes by column of han's
Bv 6 o'cl3ck the nuh and SIKH floors of Nos. So
and g were a mass - Are. and dense volumes
Z black smoke were pouring from the windows
- tho three upper noors 4 this building as well
as from the rear upper stories 2 Nos So and S.
A. GO flames were soon inside the third story
- 40 S and Chief Lally sent Firemen Kali
kevc~k and Cranna. Of Engine Company No. 1.
~ the Are-cscapc with a iine u hose. JUS as
they reached tnis story and smashed in the win
dlws with ne nozzle the flames burst forth
ani II water had not been turned on at that IN
slant the men would have been lly burned.
Deputy chief Reilly was I'm command assisted
bv chiefs O'Hcarn Cashmon. I.a.y and Mcf;iM
Five streams wcie poured into the burning
building from the roofs of the buildings on the
cppo-t. side II Gold-st Thc siN story brck bull
lng - the Excelsior Power Company and the
New-York Hat. Ligh' and Power Company. Ms
3g to g. Gold-st. which adJoined the burning
building IN IN. rear. were in imminent danger OF
total destruction.
An afr and light shaft runs up between No i5
and the burning blGiing. and there are windows
In both building. Tne hre spread 70 the hfih
and sixth floors u ~. 4j Gold-st. which Is cut
on from 80 g. by iron doors The hfth floor Is
occupied by Clark Il Zugalla printers. who scf-
ferrd = slight loss principally hy water mum
ber ~ mon u Stern Brothers & cos jewelry
manufactor, in the sixth noor ~ this building.
who were a; work. were driven out by the hfe
and smoke Their loss will be- heavy, though
much If thc.r stock Is in areproof safes. This
building Is of hreprOof construction.
ANOTHER WATER TOWER.
water Tower So arrived on special call at
g55 It's three horses were white with lather
from their run from Thirtcenth-st and nearly
exhausted Water Tower No was already
pouring two effective streams into the nfth ana
SIKH stories u Nos >6 and 81. where the CON
tents were burning nercciy Al ,.2O flames broke
oui afrcsh In the fourth and sixth floors of nos
% and a. and were making much headway wien
chief Reilly ordered Water Tower No put Into
service. which was wise move. "a the cornice
WAS threatening to fall and the entire Interior ~
tn. builCing To fall I'm.
~ s.qo n'clock the nrenen had the flames al
most entirely cXtingushed. and most oi the
engines summoned on the fourth ana nun "iarHi
won, son; hom.. Just previous L. peinS call'i
,0 three nrcmcn Of Engine 40. p. az work under
Lieutenant Hyde on the eeconl floor. were over,
come by the smoke and heat They were caiiet
down 10 the stree by thelr coHrd'cS' ""''r 'H'S
subsequently revived.
Another accident was caused by the bursting
of n hose AZ the corner Of Fulton and William
SITS Fireman Robert wallace. ~ Engine No. ::
happened t. be- passing at the time ana ie'riNei
the full fore. of the water In the FinaH oi me
back The fireman was thrown 10 the SlueWtIN
six feet where he wa picked up UNCONSCIOUS
and carried t. the doorway of the esiapIishnlrn. !.
u f. W Dcvoc & CO. An ambulance was sen,
for but did arrive until long after the second
call was turned in. The surgeon hfter a haSS
examination took the fireman 70 the Chambers
street Hospital. "
TIN. heat all during the fire was 80 Intense thai
the 0rcInen would rush from their work ana
throw thcmsclves the ground rear the spray
from a dcfcrlivc hose 10 revive thrlnselNs ..
The first noor and basement of Nos ~ ana "a 81
were vacant Eaton. cole Burnhan. IRON ara
brassworkcrs having moved out only recently
The second floor Of Nos. ~ and ~ was occup,eu
by A. Lounsbury. manufacturing JeweHer Inc
fourth was occupied by Farchid Brothers
Foster. manufacturing chemists.
Nos Sc and IS were occupied by lehmaier
protber prlnters and bODkblnders; s. Berend-
eohn drugs: Mondot & Aiken. French restal-
rant; A. Pcll IL Co. merchant tal"rs; D. =
Brooke manufacturer of milk jars; A. D. BROOKE
manufacturer of glass moulds; The Duane fresS,
and Charles Schmalze. photographer Lehmaler
& Bro. and Charles Schmaze occupied 'he
greater part Of Nos Sc and 81 -
The forms for this mornings issue OF ne
New York Law Journal were all ready Tor the
press in the composing room OF the Duane
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