The evening world., 1894-07-20
Sleeping Tenants Aroused by q
Stream from a Fire Engine.
There Was a Big Blaze in Nearby
Factory Buildings.
Thirteen Horses Blindfolded and
saved-Loss $4,000.

s,roo,. On, Cro.nv,ch and Wet .treets
The greater part OF the block is &C.
cn,iod hy ,,,nu,actor,ea but d,rec,,v IN
,r ups. W r .a ,amr p,r ,ono,non, h,,,,d.
ings of the poorer class.
Uere tho widest excitement nreva,Ied
~. 'ne ..,s,. ,,n,an a,aa o,,,,
in their night clothing. fell over each
other In their efforts to reach the
o ~ .. ~, -. ,...
through two narrow alleys. which were
filled with lines of hose and excited
nr r, '' ~
Some Of the tenants slept calmly
Through the din until awakened by
$3.50 .,,ar ,rnrr the nre engines
One family was carried down ladders to
tho street
M. euI, , ,o-,n.,,sd n nobt
The nremen were cofhpeiieo 10 hsht
the flames from the roofs Of the big
buildings and from the narrow alley
wavs leading from the side streets.
They succeeded, by hard work. in
masterinp the flames after $40 900 dam
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age hau peen uo"e'
| Thomas LAWYERS, Waterman TOT
Rudd's putty factory. at l49 Bank street,
a,a,,,i,a T., ,ron, -, tho f,ctorv saw a
brish, Glare Al, in putty alley, two doors
away. Putty alley extends back towards
the centre Of the block, with Joseph
Deane's stables on the east, and Hass
1t didn't take the Watc MIA nc, r%hs an 10
that al the rear of the can factory, one
hundred and fifty feet from the street,
flames were raging tiercely In Hass d
Husmsn's engine Groom.
The cries OF fire" which he uttered
as he sped up the street towards the
nearest fire-box. aroused John Kennedy,
foreman for Joseph Deane, who lives IN
r portion OF the stable pullulhs win ms
family. BY the time Kennedy got into
; Putty alley the flames had shot from the
engine-room up the rear OF the can
factory 6uiiding' shan a1u c nve stor-
age lot In the rear Of the STRUCTURE.
, The shed was burning win irigaiui
r rapidly, and the flames were fast max
ing In the direction of five,story unoce
cupled factory bulldlng 10 me Wesi VI
the shed and IN the rear sa. OF the stable sta
There were thirteen nUases IN .ne s' %
bystanders, who had been attracted 70
the scene by his cries, succeeded IN
. safely from the building Just as the
first engine came rafting up.
> A second and third alarm were az
once sent out, as 1t looked as though
The fire was awkwardly situated, ana
by the time lines Of hose were stretched
through Putty alley the seven-story
building of the Froment Steel Company,
next door west of the can factory was
rSaring furnace nnI Ice Ton u. wax to the ton
The f tse cam factory and
was licking the sides of the unoccupied
4 building beside the shed.
gines, two more aileyways we're used.
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 tall front and rear
t BY the time these different streams
had been directed on the flames, under
the orders of Chief Bonner. the uncccu,
= pied building beside the big shed had
. taken ire It burned like finder. Until
. recently it had been occupied by the
Excelsior Box Factory. and in moving
4 on the i've floors choked up with shaw
. ings and sawdust
5 once the flames got into this building
9 In twenty minutes every aperture
Where window had been was a mass
: Of fire. through which sheets OF flame
T. the dense volumes OF smoke which cir
cied around the fast-crumbling building.
e While most of the efforts OF the Are
= lighters we're devoted to this structure
: the Bethune street side Of the block
r The tenants in the four big tenements
$ where the fire was raging. were in the
:. widest state of panic
VI Aroused from their sleep, to be met
y by the ruddy glare Of flames, that
lighted up sky and earth, they made
y A hasty exit, leaving their belongings
n behind without even waiting to clothe
h Themselves
n Half mad with fear, they rushed
s. through the black narrow halls. block
IT ing each others way. rolling and
& stumbling down the stairs, until they
finally ran screaming into the street.
l. In the four rear tercments. nearest
y to the fire, the alarm and excitement
c. was intense From these the tenants
le and there were ten families OF them
IS had their only means of exit through
)f the little alleyway strung with hose and
crowded with working iiremen.
one of these rear tenements caught
fire from the big shed. A stream OF
water was directed towards 1t, and as
the gallons OF water flooded room or
the second floor the firemen were sur
70 prised first by a shout and then by q
white figure. with frantlcally waving
This John Attrltge, with Nils WIFE