The age-herald., 1898-02-06
DEATH DEALING
 BLAZE IN BOSTON Six FiPomen Crushed to Death and
 Others Injured. A BEDDING MANUFATORY Caught Fire and Burned Rapidly on AC- count Of Inflamable Material. MEN CAUGHT BY FALLING WALLS They Were on the Fourth Floor Throwing Streams of Water Into the Seeth-
 ing Furnace When the Fa-
 tai Crash Came.
MEN CAUGHT BY FALLING WALLS

BOStOll, rep. o.--olX Tremen, 1ncludlnS district chief, a captain and a lieutenant were killed at fire here this morning which burned out the interior of a five. story building on Merrimac street. occu- pied by G. W. Bent X Co.,, manufacturers of beds, bedding, etc. The dead are:
 JOHN F. EGAN, district chief.
 JAMES VICTORY, captain.
 GEORGE F. OSWALD, lieutenant.
 PATRICK H. DISKEN, horseman.
 JOHN J. MULHEIN, fireman.
 W. J. WALSH, hoseman.
 Four other firemen were buried in the ruins, but they escaped with more or less serious injuries. They are:
 Captain Joseph M Garrity; Hoseman Thomas E. Conway; Hoseman T. J. Do- herty; Hoseman Edward Shea. Lieuten- ant John J. McCarty, of Protective No. was slightly bruised by falling bricks.
 With InIamabIe Maternal
 The alarm was sounded at 3:5S a. m The building was filled with the most indam- mable materials. It was joined on the east by three-story tenement; on the west was separated by a narrow alley from similar structure while in the rear of the tenement houses on South Margin street, is mar TOW 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 a seething fur mace of flames, and there was no prospect that the firemen would be able to save any thing above the second story A fight was made at the start by the stairways, but soon the firemen were driven back by hot air explosions and suffocating smoke and were obliged to fight from the other side. The aerial ladders were raised on the front, ders, while streams were carried through the South Margin tenements from the back windows, of which floods were poured into the fiery furnace.
 The 'vaila C<1l ,psed
 The men on engine No. were on the fourth floor, and engines 36 and 39 were on the second floor when the rear section of the roof collapsed. carrying down por- tions of all the floors through the base ment and burying the firemen beneath q mass of debris. A nasty canvass of the members of the department showed that three men were missing.
 The first man to be taken out was Ed- ward Shay, who was found about forty feet from the front of the building on the extreme westerly end, pinned between the timber about midway between the first and second floors, having fallen from the fifth floor. As he was taken out he said to those who were removing him:
 Don't bother about me. Get the other fellows out that are in there."
 Pinioned Under finbcrs
 Capt Garrity was found within few feet of Shay, pinned under some heavy timbers, and was brought out in semi conscious condition. Tom Conroy was pinioned under some timbers, which held his legs in such manner that timbers had to be sawed through before he could be released. Next Phil Dougherty. of En- zine No. z, was taken out. He was ap- parently the worst injured of the lot. His left leg was utterly useless.
 Lieut.. Mccarthy, of Protective No. 1, was struck in the leg by falling bricks when the floor fell.
 The contents of the building, valued at s9O00O, are total loss. The damage to the building itself will bring the total up to at least $75 00O. This is partly covered by insurance. The Evangelical Baptist Benevolent and Missionary society and the Fremont Temple association own the structure.