Evening journal., 1895-01-14
FIRE FIGHTERS SUFFER.
Battled With Flames While a
Blizzard Was Raging.
ONE HUNDRED NIPPED BY FROST

A Hotel and Seven other business Build
ings In Bradford. Pa, Destroyed by
Fire--Firemen Worked with the Mer
curry Eight Degrees Below Zero.
BRADFORD, Pa, Jan. 14-Fire brok,
out in the Sheehan House here, and before
the flames could be controlled the district
between Mechanic and Barbour streets
and Main street was destroyed The
flames SPREAD so rapidly that the hotel
guests and the occupants Of the houses in
the burned district barely escaped in then
night clothes. The firemen were greatly
handicapped on account Of tho blizzard,
and the victims of the fire suffered intense.
ly from the cold weather The loss is esti-
mated at $3.50 600. Eight buildings were
destroyed. The extent of the confagration
takes in two buildings on Mechanic street
south of 90 Mechanic street, the Columbia
block the Nusbaum block. M. Rothstein s
pawn broker store and Smith Brothers
grocery. A number of fremen are suffer.
ing Of frozen hands and feet.
Two of the women-Mary Callahan and
Mary Dorean-jumped from the second
story windows in their night clothes, and
both sustained very serious injuries. AL.
though Miss Callahan's left wrist and
ankle were both fractured ia the terrible
fall, she dragged herself through the snow
to place of safety almost perishing from
the cold on the way
The flames destroyed the house owned
and occupied by Mrs. Mary Peterson, and
that lady, with her two daughters, saved
none Of their possessions but the night
clothes in which they escaped.
A Blizzard Raging.
A furious blizzard was raging at tn,
time the fire was first discovered, and the
thermometer stood at degrees below zero.
The fremen Immediately responded to the
general alarm sent in, and in very shori
time had eight streams of water playing
on the rapidly spreading blaze.
The Peterson. Sheehan and Leonard
buildings, fronting on Mechanic street
which were all wooden structures, burned
like tinder and the flames rolled from
them with fierce energy against the large
brick block on the corner Of Mechanic and
Main streets, which was owned by Mr. d.
| f. Roseberg. This structure was totally
destroyed, as were the Nusbaum block, Z
large brick building, and the Rothsteir
and Smith Brothers building fronting OF
Main street.
In the Smith building, when it wal
ablaze from foundation to roof and it wal
thought every body was ont in safety, Mrs
J. f. McQuiston, one Of the occupants
rushed from her rooms with her clothing
and hair ablaze The tiremen saved he
from cremation. Her husband was badl!
burned about the hands in working will
the flames, and before the fire was extin
guished had his hands and ears frozen.
At least 100 of the fremen had thei
ears, face or hands frostbitten more o
less severely. Robert Sisco and Rober
Helne Of the Citizen Hose company are. S
badly frozen that their condition is crit
ical.
Ice fully an inch thick froze on the Gre
mems clothing, placing them in an armo
that fInpeded their work materially. ON
ing to tho fieroenoss Of the gallo it was
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