The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-02-08
BLAZE IN BOSTON.
Six Firemen, Including a Chief, Cap
tain and Lieutenant, Killed.
Five Others Were Badly Injnred-The
Fourth Floor of the Structure Collapsed
The Work of Rescue Dificult-Ths
Property Loss is About $4,000.

BOsToN. Feb THE bodies of six
fireman, among them that of District
Chief Egan, have inst been taken from
the ruins of the Bent building, which
took fire at o'clock Saturday morn
ing.
The dead are: John F. Egan. district
chief; James Victory, captain engines
IS and 80 George J. COtwald, lieuten-
ant engine 80; Patrick Disken, hose
man; John j. Mulhern, fireman; w. j.
Walsh, hOSeman.
-Four other fremcn were buried in
the ruins, but they escaped with more
or less serious injuries. They are:
Joseph M. Garritty, captain engine z;
Thomas E. Conway, hOseman; L. L.
Doberty, hoseInan; Edward Shea, hose
man. The building burned was five
story structure on Merrimac street
occupied by e. w. Bent &. Co, manu-
facturcrs of beds, bedding, etc.
The alarm was sounded at 3:5S- The
building was filled with inflammable
materials It. was joined on the east
by a three-story tenement, on the west
was separated by a narrow alley from
a similar structure, while in the rear
of the tenement houses, on South Mar
gin street, is a narrow light-wall.
So quickly did the flames spread to
the fourth and fifth stories that within
few minutes the three upper stories
rear and the third story front were
sccthing furnace of flame and there
was no prospect that the firemen would
be able to save anything above the sec
ond story.
The fight was made at the start by
the stairways, but soon the firemen
were driven back by hot air explosions
and a suffOcating smoke, and were
obliged to fight from the other. side.
Two aerial ladders were raised on the
front. as were also several long extern
sion ladders, while streams were car
ried through the South Margin tene-
nents, from the back windows of
which floods were poured into the fiery
furnace.
The fire was nearly under cOntro5 at
the time of the accident The men of
Engine were on the fourth floor,
and OfEngineS IS andss39 were on the sec
Ond floor when the rear section of TIE
roof collapsed, carrying down pOr-
tiOns of all the floors through the base
ment and burying the tiremen beneath
great mass of debris hasty cam
vaSS Of the members of the depart
ment showed that ten men were miss
ing.
The first man to be taken out was
Edward Shay, who was found about
forty feet from the front of the build
ing on the extreme end, pinned be-
tween the timber about midway be-
tween the first and second floors: hav-
ing fallen from the fifth floor As he
was taken ort he said to those who
were removing him: Don't bother
about me- Get the other fellows that
are in there
Capt. Clarity was found within a few
feet of Shay. pinned nnder some heavy
tilnbers and was brought out in semi
conscious condition Tom COnrOy was
pinned under some timberS which held
his legs in such manner that tim berS
had to be sawed through before he
could be released. Next Phil Doherty,
of Engine No Z was taken ont. He
was apparently the worst injured of
the lot His left leg was utterly use
less
Lieut.. Mccarthy, Of Protective No. 1,
was struck in the leg by falling bricks
when the floors fell.