New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-12
TO HAVE PERlSHED.

Alexander Finkelstein; John Larney, candies;
Keusal & CO.. canes: Samuel Fleischmann
glass. Nelke & Co, lthographers. and James
Boyd. shoes.
The fire broke out in the lower part of the big
building The flames however were first seen
issuing from the windows on the fourth floor
They were preceded by an explosion of what
, seemed to he a barrel Of high wine. or some
thirg Of an equally inhammable nature Those
who were in position to know declared that
II hardly seemed instant before the enure
structure was enveloped in flames and people
were seen at almost every window of the build
lnr Numbers were seen 10 leap from the WIN
dows to the tracks of the elevated railroad ana
rom there 10 the ground. with their ciothihg III
blaze .-,.r. al, ,,oppoR
Not for long time has fire occurred IN
which there was much of the tragic ana 'he
horrible one dead body was removed from the
nre-escape after it had lain there for hours IN
the fun view of a horror stricken multitude
Three young men said they had escaped to an
adjoining roof where they were attracted by
The figure Of man on the platform of the fire
escape on the fourth floor They ran back, and
cutting a piece Of telegraph wire threw it over
,ba edge hoping to aid him. But the flames
roee over the cornice. and they were compelled
- leave him TO his fate. 1t seemed an age to
the crowd waiting below before the body was
,aten down by the fremen and laid on the
Pavement at Greenwich and Desbrosses SITS
T5ere il was an object Of dreadful fascination
9. oil ,,bo could get near enough to gaze upon
49,. rough blanket that hid all but It's ominous
outlines from the gaze Of the curious
Many other tales Of horror were told by the
,s,-le who worked in the buildings near at
band and witnessed the outbreak OF 'he hre
One Young girl it was said. was seen 10 approach
oaa - the windows in the burning structure
before aid could reach her she had fallen back
into the seethins mass of flames waiting to swal-
low her up.
RECOVERY OF THE BODIES.
The flames had spread through the building liKe
q fash at first and it seemed impossible that
many Of the hundred or more persons VIM Ia"
hee, eronloved in the building could have es-
cared. As the fremen got to work however
s,5 gradually scores of streams were got 70 play
=, .b. burning building the excitement cooled
do,., T. was cornparatively a short time con-
siserine. tho fercencss with which the fre burned
g. ers. before the building was cooled OF sui
fci.o.i, IN enable observations Of the interior 10
h. made hv ,hc fremen, and some estimate "i
toe total number Of the dead could be arrived d.
Then the reports of wholesale loss oi he Slowly
dwindled Supposedly dead people began 10 aP
pear By 6 O'Clock AT night 1t was cer'a'" '"@'
the dead must be fewer than had been rePoi'9
Later a search Of the building was "aP'' ~
was however. shortly before eight o CLOCK 'ds'
night before the first bodies We're 'ecoNe'eu
They were those of two men, who were peHeNe"
to be William Cray, the foreman OF y n ""'7
ren & Co.. and j. Mueller, mechanic in the Sd'le
establishment Gray the man VINO hdu
perished on the fire escape. the poues "e,e
taken from the ruins by the hremeh ana ia'u
side by side o, the pavement on Desbrosses ana
Greenwich SITS No others had been discovered
up 70 late hour. Fire Chief Lally declared
that there could 1e no more than I'VE victims
Of the fire if there should prove to be so many
and this view was indorsed by George Stan
more. the manager for Warren & CO.
As far as could be learned the injured were:
Phillip Haas. seventeen years old. OF No. 80
last Oue-hundred-and-siNth-s ST.. badly bruised
Eugene Greenwood seventeen years oid, laboieT 81
40 go Greenwich-st, burned about the hedu am
.GeoIse Kirke an e.cciricisn sixy-,wo Years od
Of No l2i West Thirty -second-st; burned about the
Thomas sbirl,nr. an cnglaver. thlry-two years old,
4 No Is1 LeXington-ave' badly burned about the
Mchsa Ssu,,i bookkeeper ffty-two years old. Of
No 20 NeW-York-aye.. Brooklyn, burned about the
Thomas Terr eighteen years old of No 2ss Madi-
son-st contusions Of the body dressed at the hos
A X. Warren said four hours after the fire, TO
Tribune reporter that he had found every one
y his workncn with the exception OF Cray and
Mueller and he had no doubt that theirs were
ihe two bodies which had already been taken
rom the building He said that he had between
torty and fifty men and boys WORKING Tor MN
and no women young woman employed In
)ne Of the other establishments as Typewriter
who had been reported dead. was away on her
sacaton. Mr. Warren remarked INA, ,ne ,ss ioss
10 his firm would be 1000 but he added that
they were fully insured. -, Co..
Among the firms who had occupleu ~ 'ne u. s ~ ~
Standard Lthographing Company esinaoeo s nao ~ ~,
srrn's loss from water and smoke at S-,oW, me
building Witch belones 10 the Henry Walsh