The sun., 1898-09-13
SMOKE DOWNS IA FIREMEN.
sTUBBORN FIRE IN A BIG DoHNT0WN
PERFU merry sTORE.


After BEING Twice supposed TO Ne Under
Control, II Bursts Out AGain-Fiils the
Air OF Adjoining Streets with mixed
Odors-Fire Horses Run Awny--Cat Killed
Fourteen fremen were overcome IN an OBJ.
stinate recurrent fire that smouldered from
| $3.50 o'clock last evening until after mi dnight
| In the sub-cear Of the store at 81 Beekman
street occupied by LeerburRer Bros., dealers
in essential oils and perfumers' supplies.
The store had been locked up for the night
| when passer-by saw smoke. permeated with
varleeuted scents, that soon filed the street
pouring though the cellar eratlnRs He told O
policeman. who rang an alarm.
| Among the first hrenen on hand
| was Chief John Castles OF the
Second Battalion The cellar door was mashed
open. and Castles descended with his men.
They went on hands and knees. Castles was
prostrated and dragged to the sidewalk. The
other men were forced ont into the open air
later, many or them knocked out A second
! and third alarm brought nearly dozen en-
gines, with tenders and hook and ladder com
panies.
An ambulance and two surgeons from Hud-
son Street Hospital were toon on haud to help
restore the smoke-choked nremen. The men
than Ave or ten minutes In the cellar. ~ ''O''
Il, The hre was inyisible. as II was away down
hG tSe RI tss nss @ S
into the cellar. md torrents OF water were also
directed toward the source Of the sitting smoke
hroneh ugh h9Ies cut in the wall OF the building on
Before Before ths third alarm was rlng the aremen
volume OF smoke that nome momentariiy iO Kid nd
bonner to cali for uS more engine engines. on.St Il
on the nesS Sidewalks wSSs " Beetman oisn and
aSloining streets fourteen men; Some were
pletely .incapacitafed for the time. The sur sur
that 9t none 70 e needed hospital treatment. This is
Clifford: foreman, Engine 9; William Andrews,
Engine, 81 !; Herman Kne6, Engine Il; Louis
Price. Engine II; Paul salton,. Engine IL;
Engine o; Fred Lear, Engine. IS; Toby Frank. Frank.
shsgrrxe sEhhgine II; samuel Brown. Engine -; James
The bursting OF q hose frightened the horses
OF Engine 20. stationed at Nassau and Beekman
streets, and they tore away from the hydrant
Their fright startled the horses @ Of e The tender tender
Of Engine 20. and they, started, down Nassau
horses by the. bride and held on few blocks.
TSo TS wss iSsced % 70 iet So to escape amppost
The Ross we're ba eae
hausted at Exchange place and Beaver street
AT $50 O'clock the fire was apparently under
alarm were sent home About an hour later,
there was another volcanic upheaval
from the depths of the sub-cellar The
scent Of bergamot, lemon and other essential
S mixed T5 mi and the o
around, II, was like the interior OF 4 Third
avenue barber shop without q vacant chair In
the third, also the last. outbreak OF smoke three
hremen who had been once before overcome
and had returned TO duty, were prostrated.
They were kuch. Sutton and Price. CHIEF
Bonner announced confidently shortly after
midnight that the fire had been at last drowned
out. Then he went home.
The proprietor OF the store said he could
form no estimate Of the damage. 1t probably
will not exceed $2O,0O0.
One OF the firemen brought cat out OF the
cellar. Efforts to revive 1t were unavailing and
it was killed