The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-20
WARNED WITH WATER
Sleeping Tenants Aroused by a
Stream from a Fire Engine.
There Was a Big Blaze in Nearby
Factory Buildings.
Thirteen Horses BiindfoIded and
Saved.-Loss $50, 900.

clock this morning for fire which
| started in the very heart of big west
side block, between Bank and Bethune
streets and Greenwich and West streets.
Tho greater part OF the block is oc-
cupied by manufactures, but directly In
| the rear are four big tenement build
ings of the poorer class.
! Here the widest eXcit ement prevailed
as the panic-stricken Inmates, clad only
in their night clothing, fell over each
other in their efforts to reach the
street. The only means of egress was
through two narrow alleys which were
| filled with lines of hose and cXcit ed
| iiremen.
| Some of the tenants slept calmly
| through the din until awakened by
| streams of water from the fire engines
| one amily was carried down ladders to
| the street.
! The hremen were compelled to fight
the flames from the roofs of the big
buildings and from the narrow alley
ways leading from the side streets.
They succeeded. by hard work. in
mastering the flames after 100000 dam
age had been done.
Thomas LAWYERS, Waterman for
standing in front of the factory, saw a
bright glare in Putty alley. two doors
away. Putty alley extends back towards
| the centre of the block, with Joseph
| Dcanes stables on the east, and hass
| 4 Husman's can factory on the west
| Il didn't take the Waterman long 10
run the length of Putty alley and find
that at the rear of the can factory. one
! hundred and fiftv feet from the street
flames We're raging fiercely in Hass q
| HnSman'S engine-room. ,
The cries Of Gre which he uttered
as he sped IN the street towards me
| nearest tire-boX aroused John Kennedy
a foreman for Joseph Deane, VINO iives IN
a portion of the stable building with his
family BY the time k ks Ht t sot mo mo
f faa,ory bui d. ."t and had fred an
enormous wooden shed, covering stor-
age lot in the rear of the structure
The shed was burning with fiisltful
, rapidly, and the flames were last max
ing in the direction of tiVe-story unoc.
cupiei factory building to- the west OF
! the shed and in the rear of the stable.
| There were thirteen horses in the sta :
Bile and Deane. with the assistance OF
bystanders who had been attracteSd 10 10
bIindfolding them and leading them
safely from the building just as the
first engine came rat Ting up.
| A second and third alarm were at
once sent out, as 1t looked as though
the block was doomed.
The fire was awkwardly situated, and
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
a roaring furnace.
The fire had eaten its way to the top
floor OF the three-Story can factory, ana
was licking the sides of the unoccupied
building beside the shed
gines. two more alleyways were 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 Rethune street
side between the tall front and rear
| tenements. -
had been directed on the flames, under
the orders of Chief Bonner, the unoccn,,
pied building beside the big shed had
recently 1t had been occupied by the
Excelsior Box Factory, and in moving
ont they had left fully half the rooms
on the i've floors choked up with shaw
ugs and sawdust.
Once the flames got INFO this building
they shot from floor to floor rapidly.
In twenty minutes every aperture
of fire, through which sheets OF flame
and showers of sparks were FORCED by
the dense volumes of smoke which cir
cled around the discriminating building.
While most OF the efforts of the fire
fighters We're devoted to this structure
an exciting scene Was being enacted on
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
Aroused from their sleep. to be met
by the ruddy glare Of flames. that
lighted up sky and earth. they made
y hasty exit, leaving their belongings
behind, without even waiting to clothe
themselves.
Half mad with fear, they rushed
through ,hr'nS,ck narrow halls, block;
stumbling down the stairs, until they
finally ran screaming into the street.
In the four rear tenements, nearest
. to the fire. the alarm and excitement
= was intense. From these the tenants
. and there We're ten families of them
: had their only means of exit through
the little alleyway strung with hose and
crowded with working iiremen.
one of these rear tenements caught
fire from the big shed. stream OF
water was directed towards IT, and as
the gallons of water flooded room OF
the second floor the firemen We're sur
prised first by a shout and then by d
white figure with, trantically waving
arms that appeared AT the window.
This was john Attrldge with his wife
and three children who had beer
/. calmly sleeping In the room, until the
water poured in and nearly drowned
them. They Mere rescued Just before
l the roof OF what had been the building
| OF the Excelsior Box Factory fell witt
CRASH, anu lllt IRE was uHutl con
troll
The flames from where they started
, had burned the rear portion OF the car
- factory, entirely cutting the two uppel
: floors and making great holes in The
: roof.
, The DO, factory banding is tota
y ! loss, as well as tn" shed and NO
story brick Workshop of the New Nurl
tar-Wh"rl Company. The tar-Whe
| tumpanN'S right-slurN building MAS no
| badly damaged. The scNen-story build
ing Of the from-t Steel and Iron Work,
= Wa damaged considerably in the rca
ON the lower floors.
The R"thunc street rear teuementl
A We're only scurChrd. but the water iii,
, much damage. Dcaurs stables wer,
y slightly damaged,
: The iUemcu consider the estimate
loss of S..uuan a conservative one
D.. No idea can b" formed Of the "a use O
~ Ia, tire. As, II iH claimed there had no
| been llr" an the CINE room, where i
. started. for several hours.
On Np.l ~ last Iass y llusmdn'S car
y, factory. then located al rs ana ~ Jan,
- street was destroyed 10y lire. 1t ha,
been rebuilt since. aud the tirm ha,
made preparations TO move into the ne
, building next week.
STAND BY YOUR WIFE,"