The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1895-11-09
FIRE IN new YORK
RETAIL STORES on BROADWAY
ARE BURNED OUT,
Fire starts In u Shirt Factory and
Soon Spreads to Adjoining Build
1nEs, and Within = short Time
Causes Loss of About
&2,OOtD(D(H)
FIRE LADDlEs ARE HURT.
Twenty-Five Firemen Are Injured
by an Explosi0n and ny Fall
ing Walls.

New York. Nov. IA fire started
last night in Keeps shirt factory ut
Broadway aud Blocker streets, which
extended to Crosby street, and is esti-
mated to have done a damage OF ST.
100000.
From the point where the fire was
first seen the flames ran quickly
through the building, which extends
from the corner Of Crosby and Rleek-
er streets through the 15O-foot block
until 1t makes the southwestern cor
ner of Broadway and Blocker street.
This building was destroyed.
From this building the flames got
into the structure adjoining ON the
south, while to the north they shot
across the narrow BECKER street,
caught the enormous building of the
Manhattan Savings institution, the
upper stories of which soon crushed
and fell with great crash, while
firemen We're working on lower floors.
Jacob Adler & Co. control the cloth
Ing establishment on the floor where
the fire started. Beneath them, on
the ground floor of the building fac
Ing Broadway, is the Empire State
bank. On the upper floors are I.auter-
back Il Co., silks. and several like con-
Germs.
Half an hour after the flames were
first seen in the Crosby street side
the building had been demolished, the
walls still stood erect but the apar-
lures where the windows had been
showed through them u solid sheet Of
flame. Notwithstanding the enormous
heat the firemen crowded the building
close. From the very first it was
seen that the building was doomed,
and the only chance was the saving Of
the nearby structures. An especial
effort was made on the Hlecker street
side to see that the flames did not
cross the street to the eight-story
Manhattan bank structure.
Suddenly, IL few minutes before 0
O'clock, where all had been light for
blocks around from the glare of the
flames, there came darkness. From
the rent walls there came a great
cloud of black smoke that blotted out
al light; came SO pungent in narrow
Bleeker street that the fire fighters
were forced to run for their lives.
Then the high walls parted, seemed
to hang in the air for a moment, then
fall where few moments before the
tiremen stood
The tivc-story building to the south
caught fire with the falling of the
walls, and the filemcn's attention was
turned TO that. Twenty of them were
before this house when an explosion
came that shook the building and
every window In the house was blown
into the street. Iron shutters were
forced from their fastenings and sent
smiling through the air.
II was at first thought that firemen
had been injured by the wreck of the
building. but when the first shock Of
the crash was over it was found 9th
erwisc. Two men who had stood
near were blown across the street.
Both were slightly injured.
The Manhattan building was across
the street. and every effort was made
to save 1t. but valnly. Fire Chief F,
j. Reilly and twelve men were in the
sixth story of the building when from
above the flames came SO rapidly that
their escape was cut off. BY cutting
hole through the side wall to the
building TO the north the chief and
eleven men escaped. The twelfth man.
Fitzgerald, crawled along a narrow
coping, but became so weak that two
comrades. Brush and Barnett, had to
climb out Of window ana lift him
along the ledge. many feet above
ground. to u window In the adjoining
building.
Chief Reilly tainted when he
reached the street and was taken to a
hospital. with his back injured. Fire.
man Walsh was overcome by the
smoke In rescning Annie Coon. aged
seventy, and five children, from q ton.
cment. There We're many narrow es.
capes, and twenty-five fircmen were
injured.
The Manhattan building is occupied
by many concerns. In the building
were. among others. Heidelburg l. Co.
clothing: Ouvebrood Bros. silks; Guar
nntee silk company; Goldstone & Co.,
clothing; Western Stove works: J. NJ.
Van Note. hats. and John A, Flom-
mlerfelt Il Co.
Within three hours the fire had done
q damage Of nearly $2,OOOOOO. the in-
sulance men estimate. and the heart
OF the retail business on Broadway