The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-13
BURIED UNDER THE DEBRIS.
ONE FIREMAN IS KILLED AND
 ANOTHER FATALLY INJURED.

l ANOIH ER F,AT.A LLI A. NO e HIEOs
 While the Men From Truck Were Fight
 ing Fire in an Alley the Brick Walls
 Gave Way and Two of the Crew Were
 Buried Under the Debris-Tne Ladder Was Thrown Down and Broken.
 Worcester, Mass, April 12.-The en-
 tire department was called out on three
 alarms for a fire in the brick block oc-
 cupied by the Quinsigamond Clothing
 company, No. AIS and 422 Main street.
 this evening. One fireman was killed,
 another will probably die, and four oth-
 CTS were slightly injured.
 box 4 at city hall at 7:01. followed at
 intervals of five minutes by a second
 and third alarms. The block is four
 story brick structure with a mansard
 roof, and is known as the Kinnicut
 block. Almost as soon as the alarm was sounded the flames burst through
 the roof and g. strong southeast wind drove firebrands and countless sparks along over the roofs of the blocks on
 the west side of Main street for more than quarter of a mile There is but one narrow building between the Kin nicutt block and Pleasant street, which is almost diagonally across the street from the city hall
 The firemen arrived quickly, but the fire was getting a big start and Chief Vaughn, seeing there was great danger of it's spreading to adjoining blocks, pulled in a second alarm shortly after his arrival Before a stream of water could be got on the fire the flames had almost complete control of the fourth story and the rooms finished off in the mansard roof. They burst through the front windows into Main street and Tn the rear of the block they forced their way through the windows and nearly across Post Office alley. The Kinnjcutt block Is not more than twenty feet from the block in which the post office is located and it was thought for time that the building would catch fire
 Preparations were made to remove the mails if necessary, The fire was fought from the front or Main street side, from Pleasant street to the south over the roof of the Rogers block, from Postoffice Alley on the west and from Pearl street on the north over the top of the First National bank build- ing.
 There was plenty of water both from the low service and the high service mains in Main street. The five fire en- zines connecting with the former and the hose lines being laid from the lat ter. Thousands of gallons of water wer poured into the flames from roofs above and from ladders and from the ground. still it was more than an hour before the firemen seemed to gain at all so great was the heat
 The men from truck No. went into a small alley leadin golf to the north of the burning block to raise a sixty five-foot truck, when the timbers of the mansard roof and the brick walls of the upper story fell. All escaped but two, who wer buried under the debris. The ladder was thrown down and broken. The two men who were buried were William L. Mclaughlin and Frank Jones, both call ladder men. Both were speedily taken out of the ruins, McLaughlins skull was crushed and he was otherwise terribly | injured. He died at 9:S0 o'clock at the City hospital. Jones suffered a com pound fracture of the left leg, frac- ture of the left arm and a fracture of | the skull. He Is at the City hospital | and 1t Is not thought he can live till | Six other firemen are slight | y injured. Chief Vaughn was not ten | feet distant when the wall fell and l Jarely escaped injury, covered with lust and mortar.
 The fire was confined to the Kennicut | block and was under control at S:30 o'clock.
 In front of the block were seventy loot poles bearing large number of | telephone and other electric wires. Many of these were cut by the iremen. shutting off three electric fight circuits and badly crippling the telegraph service.
 The entire loss is estimated at $5O,000.