New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05
EIGHT FIREMEN OVERCOME.
DROPPED WHILE FIGHTING FLAMES IN
AN ABANDONED DIME MUSEUM.

HAD ENTERED THE CELLAR IN FACE OF Up NSE
SMOKE REsclED ny THEIR COMRADES
AT THE RISK .oF THEIR LIVES
DAMAGE NEARLY $4,000.
The three-story brick building at No &;l Eighth
ave and its I-shaped extension. running to No.
sG7 West Tweni -sevcnth-st. which have been
known for years ~ the Eighth Avenue Museum
were heavily damaged by FIRE last night Eight
fremen attached 10 Engine Companies NOS ~ q
and ~ were overcome by smoke. and 1t was with
great difficulty that they were revived and brought
OF danger.
The men
ARGI'r Frank fireman = Engir. Company No 81; sent
pool J,fn. nre,n,n Z Engine o,mpany No -. sent to
R.aserc ileeui,aI
GrriEspir Jamc- drernan = Engine Company No. -:
HARr,rSiT0%. james ar.fnan Of Enein. Company No.
I.,XlHN&. pairlc< Gr,msn n Engn. Company No. a.
R-,sev~i' Hospital -. .,
ieFen Ia ne ,fa-. N o., th,, company
SULLIVAN. Joseph u Engine Company No. 81 sent 70
wtliTE Eduard brennan 4 Engin. Company 80 81
zen, 20 bellevue H..p!,al
Tho arc was discovered At o'clock by Policeman
Patrick Ryan. Of The West Thirty seyenth-at. sta
ton Seeing smoke coming from the second-hoor
windows he turned In alarm. Engine Company
80 q responded when the hrernen arrived dense
volumes ~ black srnoke were rolling from tho
many windows and from the openings In the roof.
and he str,a,s around about were nlled with the
hnck clouds. \ second and then a third alarm
were promptly turned IN. and tho police reserves
from the West Thlri,t at. the West Thirty-srY-
enth-si. and tho Wet Twcntcth-st. stations w"re
ordered out Fifteen engines. four trucks and
water tower replied 20 tho alarms. Acting chief Of
Police Dovory who lives around the corner IN
Twenty -seventh-at.. hurried TO the place and per
sonally took command 81 the Are lines
The mon 81 Engine Company No. "A Immediately
on rh,ir arrival smashed in the entrance 20 the
vault In Eighth-ave.. and. lowering ladders. en-
tered 10 nch the fir there. IN what was evidently
ia stronghold 4 cloud OF black smoke drove them
back Ia hurry and just AT the opening elght men
were overcome. Tn" men ~ engine company no.
plight ~ their comrades. and AZ IN" FISK
~ their uves dragged me unconscious Tcn to the
Alarms for amhulanccs were sent 70 bellevue.
Roosevelt and New Orls hospitals. ana IN snort
scous nremen Some w"r" So much affected by the
smokD that tho doctors had 10 pump oxygen INTO
their lungs resior. respiration. With the ckrcp-
ton OF Packncy all were sent 60 IN" hospitals for
rest and further treatment
Tho rest OF the nrrUcn I'm the mean time forced
an entrnnc. into the rW"ntN -S"v"nthst- extension
and had better success I'm their battle. They sue
cctded I'm combining the IRE 90 the basement IN"
damage to the building Is placed at from 81 10
SOe1 The owner William T. Reyes. Of the
American Surety Company Since tho beginning or
Nav the building has been vacant lot OF mis-
caIau,ols scenery costumes. for which there
seems To- b. no particular were stored I'm the
collar and IL was Ia this stun that the IRE started
Gardner ~ TIausnan drysoods merchants AT NO
$40 Elgnfh-avc.. the next building, sustained loss
OF o 50 by water 10 goods III th,lr h&''intnt
Tn. last man To- conduct a museum IN the pace
WIS a Mr. Rae Hs six months experience ended
on MAJ l. when he gave up the enterprise az IN
had the place FOR five years. He seemed to make 1t