The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-11-14
FIRE In NEW YORK.
RETAIL STORES ON BROADWAY
ARE BURNED OUT,
Fire starts In n Shirt Factory and
soon Spreads to Adjoining Bald
ings, and within IA short Time
Cause a Loss of About 81, 1000, 900.

New York, Nov. IA fire started
last night in Keeps shirt factory at
Broadway and BECKER streets, which
extended TO Crosby street, and is esti-
mated to have done IA damage Of ST.
00O.O 0O
From the point where the fire was
first seen the flames ran quickly
through the building, which extends
from tbe corner IF Crosby and BIeek-
or streets through the 150-foot block
until it makes the southwestern cIr-
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 a great crash, while
tiremen were 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 Lauter-
back & 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 a solid sheet of
flame. Notwithstanding the enormous
heat the tiremen 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 BECKER street
side to see that the flames did not
cross the street to the eight-story
Manhattan bank structure.
Suddenly. a few minutes before 9
O'Clock. where all had been light for
blocks around from the glare of the
flames, there anne darkness. From
the rent walls there came a great
cloud of black smoke that blOtted out
all light; came so pungent in narrow
Blocker street that the fire fighters
were forced to run for their lives.
Then the high walls parted, seemed
to hang in the air for q moment. then
hAi 'ANIN a. IL" AiolAIthlS DtlcIt IN
firemen stood.
The five-story building to the south
caught fire with the falling Of the
walls, and the firemen's attention was
turned 10 that. Twenty Of them were
before his 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
sailing through the air.
1t was at first thought hat firemen
had been injured by the wreck OF the
building. but when the first shock Of
the rash was over it was found 9TH
erwise. Two men who had stood
e were blown across the street.
Both were slightly injured.
The Manhattan building vas across
the street, and every effort was made
to save it, but va!nly. Fire Chief r.
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 Of. BY cutting
a hole through the side wall to the
building to the north the chief and
eleven men escaped. The twelfth ina n.
Fitzgerald, crawied along a narrow
coping, but became so weak that two
comrades. Brush and Barnett, had 10
climb out Of q window and lift him
along the ledge. many feet above
ground, to a 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 vas overcome by the
smoke in rescuing Annie Coon, aged
seventy, and Ave children, from a ten-
ement. There were many narrow es-
capes. and twenty-five firemen were
injured.
The Manhattan building Is occupied
by many concerns. In the building
Were, among others. Heidelburg & Co.
clothing; Ouvebrood Bros, silks: Guar
antee Silk company; Goldstone & Co,
clothing; Western Stove works: !. NJ.
Van Note, hats, and John A. Flom-
merfelt & Co.
Within three hours the fire had done
a damage of nearly S2,OO0,OOO, the in
surance men estimate, and the heart
of the retail business on Broadway
was i'll ruins.