The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-06

Nav YORK, Nov, 5.-A FIRE started to.
night in Keeps shirt factory at Broad
way and Bleeckor streets, which ex.
tended TO Crosby street, and ia esIi'
mated to have done a damage Of
100000. The comparatively new
building OF the Manhattan Savings In
stitution will be destroyed. Two other
building were destroyed and others
damaged by fire aud water.
Al l0;l5 p. IN. Deputy Chief Riley
ana tive drenen were on the fifth aud
sixth iloors OF the Manhattan Savings
InGtitution building when the walls
fell, Riley escaped, but could tell noth-
ing OF his men.
From the point where tho fire was
first seen the flames ran quickly through
tho building, which extends from tho
corner Of Crosby and Bleecker streets
through the l50.ioot block until It
reaches the southeast corner oil Broad
way and Blocker street. This building
Wal destroyed.
From this building, tho flames got
into the structure adjoining on the
south, while to the north they shot
across the narrow Blocker street, caught
tho enormous building ot the Manhat'
| tan Savings Institution, the upper stor.
les Of winch soon crushed and fell with
q grea. crash, whils iremen were work
| inr on tie lower floors.
Jacob Adler & Co. control tho cloth
To- eSlabllsnment on the floor where
thO'G atartod. Beneath ihOm, on the
ground floor OF tho building facing
Broadway is the Empire state bank. On
tho uppor tloors ara Lluterbach & Co.,
silks, aud several like concerns.
Hall an hour after the flames were
frst seen in Crosby street, the building
had beon demolished. The walls still
stood erect, bnt the apertures where
| the windows had been, showed through
;hem a solid shoot oi lamea.
An especial effort was made on the
Blocker street side, 10 SEQ that the
Aamos did not cross the slTeit to the
eight.story Manhattan bank structure.
Suddenly, a few minutes before 8
o'clock, where all had been light for
blocks around from tho glare OF the
flames, there came darkness. From the
ront walls there came great black
cloud OF smoke that blolted out all
light; came so pungent in narrow
Bleecker street that the fire fighters
were forced TO run for their lives. Then
the high walls parted, seemed to hang in
the air for moment, then fell where
few moments before the fremen had
stood.
The fve.story building to the south
caught fire with tho falling OF the walls
aud the tireman'a attention was turned
TO that, Twenty OF them were before
| this house when an explosion came that
shook tho building and every window
| in the house was blown into the street.
| Iron shutters were forced from their
fastenings and sen. sailing through the
air.
ItWas at first thought that the fire.
men had been injured by the wreck oil
this building, but when the first shock
Of the crash was over 1t was found 9TH
erwise. Two men who had stood near,
we're blown across the street. Both were
slightly injured.
The Manhattan building was across
the street, and overy effort was mado to
sRve 1t, but vainly.
/ Firo Chief Francis ]. Reilly and
| twelve men woro IN tue Skin story OF
the building, when from above the
flames came so rapidly that their escape
was cut off. BY cutting hole through
tho sido wall OF the building to the
north, tho chief and eleven OF HE men
escaped. Tho twelfth man. fireman
Fitzgerald. Crawled along narrow cop.
| ing, but became 80 weak that two com.
rades, Brush. had to climb out OF win
dow and lift him along the ledge, many
loot above the ground, TO window In
an adjoining building.
Chief Reilly iaintod whom ho reached
tho street, and was taken to hospital
with his back injured, Fireman WalSh
was overcome by tho smoke after teucn-
ing AMMO Coon, aged seventy, and five
children from tenement, There were
many narrow escapes, and twenty-five
tlremon were injured,