The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-25
BURIED IN
FIERY RUINS.
Three Pirsmen and Over Two
Hundred Horses Perish
in Washington.
TWELVE BUILDINGS BURNED.
Blaze Started in the Knox
Stables and Spread to Many
Dwelling Houses.
FIVE MEN BADLY INJURED.
Brave Fire.Fishters and Policemen
Overcome by the intense
Heat.
FIVE MEN BADLY INJURED.
tBy Associated Press.)


WASHINGTON, July 5.-Clanrinr
bells. roaring flames. rushing engines.
crashing walls. agonizing shrieks OF !.
horses that were perishing in the aery
furnace-such was the scene that was
presented to eye and ear at Knox's sta
bles. at b and Second streets, and the y
other buildings in that block fell prsy
to the destructive element early this
morning.
Not since the big fire in the Pstent
Onice. many Year, ago. has the Fire De-
partment OF the District had to cope
with so fierce a confagration. Worst Of;
| all was the fate OF five brave firemen.
who were crushed under the falling
| walls. Four men were injured by falling
walls and timbors and these were
promptly removed to the Emergency
Hospital for treatment. Three Of the
| firemen lost their lives.
Over 300 heavy draught horses. nearly
all of the Company's express wagons
and the contents of the large storage
building were burned The Adams Ex-
press Company's stables. adjoining the
Knox Building to the north, were almost
entirely consumed. About LEO horses
were in the Adams Express Company's
hardest kind OF work on the part of citi-
zens and policemen.
Eight two-story houses in the alley
north of the Knox Building and two
| small frame houses back OF the Adams
| stables were destroyed. Six or eight
other residence houses were more or less
damaged Mitchelrs blacksmith shop,
in Second street, was crushed by falling
l
ter OF n million dollars. The bodies OF
the following named, all firemen OF No.
l Company, have been recovered:
| SAMUEL E. MASTIN.
| MICHAEL FENTON.
| DENNIS DONOHUE.
| One of the Knox stable employees vas
burned and may die. Fully dozen
irement and policemen were overcome
by heat and had TO be carried to
places OF safety.
| The injured are:
| j. G. WILSON. SIS Eleventh street.
southeast, broken leg.
| JAMES KELHAL. 462 Virginia ave-
nue., southwest, sprained back, seriously
| injured.
! LEE BELL. s2o2 street. northwest,
burned about hands and face.
ated forehead.
EDWARD CAHILL, citizen. shoulder
broken
AS the fire ragged persons could not
pass on or Second street for the In
tense heat. The firemen were obliged to
| throw water on each other repeatedly
ing distance OF the buildings. The men
| who had to hold lines of hose on the X
street front of the Knox Building We're
obliged to lie on their stomachs and
| hold their faces to the ground, so Aw-
full was the heat. Policemen, who had
to help drag the hose about, were
Obliged to remove their outer clothing
and to be frequently drenched with wa
About ten minutes before three a por-
ton of the wall OF the rear OF the
crowd set up cry. THE dremen are
in there" II was II cry q horror II
was true. The members OF Hose Com
companies had been caught INSIDE OF
the building. Flames We're all about
them. They could not escape without
Fire Chief Paris rushed to the rescue:
Half u dozen lines OF hose we're turned
upon the burning mass, when nau
fallen in front OF the exit. As the brioks
cooled slightly twenty hremen ana as
many policemen rushed into the build
ing. Ii was an awful FISK. me walls
of the Knox Building We're totterins;
Al any moment they might fali and
crush the smaller Adams Building under
them. .....
from what was thought to be death
pit, In their arms they drassed the
mad been hurt by falling bricks, and
subjected to such heat that they were
almost baked alive. Their comparatively
and singed All were dragged back 10
the opposite sidewalk,
TWO minutes after The party came out
the upper floors OF the Knox bunoins
n crash. The scene of ruin and de-
struction was Understandable. The charred
flesh OF the brave iiremen who lost theit
lives, the buring carcasses OF horses. the
ashes and smoulderlng remains OF the
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