The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-05
F1REMENovERCoME
THEY sUCoUMB TO THE sMoKB ar
a FIRE

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Gre in tho Eighth Avenue Museum at 5h1
ElEhth avenue last evening. Tho IRE must
have started some time before D O'Clock, but 1t
was half an hour later whoa tho policeman on
post saw n donse volume of smoke come from
the cellar. He lost no time in sending
In an alarm. Tho mon OF Engine Com
pAny "a from West Thirty.fourth street, were
coon at the place. There wasn't any evidence of
Are except the dense smoke pouring out of the
cellar. The building was closed for tho season
On May / and locked mp tight Iron and wooden
doors barred the entrance, and on the former
the nremon's axes made no impression.
Half a dozen steps led into the cellar. An iron
grating over the stops, even with the
barred tho entrance. AS II seemed the easier to
force, the iromen set to work on 1t. After
fifteen minutes hard work the grating was priod
loose. The wooden cellar door was knocked In and
Acting Foreman John Burns ordered FiromeA
Harrington, Hackney, Gillespie. and White into
the building. They carried q hose and forged
ahead through the smoke to try to locate the
IRE.
As Burns and his men pushed forward tho
smoke got thicker. Half way through the
building Foreman Burns halted. unable to pro-
eeod further. The four men pushed on. Burns
lost sight of them. but they didn't get much
further before they were all overcome. They
fell in their tracks. Meanwhile Burns made his
way TO tho str cot,
A second alarm brought Deputy Chief Croker.
He rushed into tho building and met Burns,
blinded by the smoke. trying to get out.
Chief Croker Saw at q glance that the men
within, could never stand the smoke and
he ordered that an ambulance DO sum-
monod. Rushing forward. he stumbled over
the prostrnte men. He picked up Harrington
and carried him to the street. Foreman
Burns got some fresh air Into his lungs
and entered the building again. He carried
Tscsney 70 the 81 otr Get ,,r Tsek nmS he r' inS,sfsd
were Stil IL The cellar; H s. carried ai GTt White
sclous. They we're laid on the s%,dewalks where
Sson sent tao TO 5's tho New York Hospital, but
Taso 5hsFN time w"' Bo NJ Q FSspG %nS R Roosevelt
hospitals were called upon. Three smbulances
HE cal. Harrington and White soon recovered
consciousness, Gillespie had to be taken to
While the men Of Engine oomPSny, i 81 ; EoTG
to to s ses in 1u't on fTwenty.Olxth street through
the house at 300. This side entrance was
s Sssn Tho Other Ssrt stage door was of iron. a
narrow areaway with two iron,oarred WINDOWS
Be there. The nromen couldn't see a blaze. but
the smoke was very Thick: an, 1o,, noo, =,
Engine Company "a and Frank Argue of Hook
and Ladder q got into the areaway with a three.
i ipon HEsS; T Widow 1n[us a. u , }s5o dia so S1G tho o. gl sSs
in the second areaway window smashed from
t ao1,,d h1 All, 4 HnS Va. t 80 thick tRp ani osao in n" .Sti
Volume that the three men couldn't e1Gepe
They fell. hanging upon tn tho - hose 3Ss line Inc I IN p,
means Of . ladder. They. weTe eerriet
9 sSt on TT1fEntyT7TbIs The B :IFsst and and l"l Roos .,
velt ambulance surgeons got to work OF
them ,,,a IN ar,. = Two '1 Nsx YORK 58't Ho. Ss AsmSBu
ionoes ratified UP. DR.. Lassale., in charge Of on.
OF them. camo forward leisurely. but. although
the New York ambulance surgeon made no at
tempt to 60 to his assistance. A Bellevue sur
Sunsonscions Argue and yelled to Dr. Iassaio
lea and Il. N. Archer, who i've in the neishbor
hood. and who had been helping tho ambuiane
fEaTse1So york RAJ Go 50 : HsfG 'uf ~eon had 5sd made t1 up Al
mind not to help him. They saw oL thu
a. 1F 81 sent r to tho IT hospital Ia1 A Bellevue sEs e% smba Hahe
carried him thither. Sullivan WAS hurried I
York Hospital surgeons looked OH from thei
seats in their ambulances.
BY this time the front and side doors OF Tn
museum had been forced and a dozen lines
hose were throwing water into the BUILDING. i,
sS6 oors H S,aT% op eFUSE and f the accumulated 1UnneE; S"s SmoE
allowed to esc %|fst the hr %ns IN ha tdrc mo ts sn 81
trance. Sr An immense amount Of ,wster WI
pumped into the building. When tho fire vi
over the water was three IoeC ueop IN Jne celld
The fire started In the cellar under the stag
There was a good deal, of scenery piled Their
and it was all destroyed: The fremen think Il
paint on the scenery caused the hre In son
way. Chief Bonner estimated the damage
Tie building has a thirty foot frontage {
Eighth avenue and runs back $50 feet. 1t
three stories high and Is built of brick and iro
Since it was closed it has been unoGcupied.
has been a museum for ten years. Huber ran
for a long time. During the past se ass it W
run by a man named van buren. "lllam
Keyos owns the building.
Outside Of the mishapS to the nre%sn. t
the police arrangements, When the sc
ond alarm T "a sounded Capt; srow Wtat
I raShsd T over bis bn'i reserves. The third SisT
brought the West Twentieth street staff
faro at any time, and when anything excitI
occurs the Inhabitants thereabouts turn out
T fmSs1i OF j people sWarmed on the aven
and Twenty. sixth street; The fremen and a
buIance drivers had to fight their way throu
Half a dozen Eighth avenue open horse c'
T TsfS n linsH Tw "P Sn 5ns Hh0S Streets osa%01 The p peo,
took them by storm. Men and boys climbed IL
them and on top nG,S of them en-. In 1rS oEag ip 'front.' t9 gae on
museum was great,
Capt, Brown hardly made an effort to eat
people back, and then gave up trying to !
tho rest outside the limos. Those who
Acting Chief Deyery appeared every one
pected to SEQ the police spruce up. +, !
crush made standing uncomfortable even
TammRny chief. Then he ordered Capt. Bro
TO clear the streets.
Tho horse cars. which had como to a 8
without any reason. were got moving. w
the fire was out the police had the lines est
iished for tho first time. That was two no
after the fire began.
Foremen DooI. Gillespie. and Argue. who "
removed to Bellevue, were doing well last nil
The smoke affected Argue most. He didn't
cover consciousness for several hours. l
and Gillespie revived soon after reaching
hospital.
Foreman Sullivan. who was taken to Ro
Welt Hospital was resting easily last night.
four men, the doctors think, will be out 1
day or two. Tho other men who were overc'
went to their homes.