New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-04
DEAD AND MISSING FIRE
ONE LIFE LOST AND TWO MEN UNAC-
COZ NTED FOR
MANY THRILLING REsCUEs PERFORMED
AT BLAZE IN 4 CROWDED
MOTT-sT. FACTORY.

AT A BLAZE IN 4 CROWDED
MOTT-sT FACTORY.
one life was lost and two men are missing in A
fire in the seven story brick building Nos. %. IS
and IS hottest yesterday afternoon. Several we're
also seriously hurt perhaps fatally Chief
Croker estimates the loss at $4,000 but men OF the
fire insurance patrol said they did not think it
would be more than $4,000 The known 20
have lost his life is
CoNLlN, Michael engineer. persisted in the burning
building.
MISSING.
SMITH. Charles ,wenty-one years cid
ROGER. egh,een-year-old boy
INJURED
cAGy Jon" { Ns 81 1 ns s nrs"'0 OF
dafn's skull irnc;ur.d and may de.
MGRApY. ---. fireman n Engine Company 10 81;
scaldei by escaping steam. critical condition
MUM ohn. thry-1v years old % 50 y Ess"N-st-'
broken ankle and con'usors
All the injured taken TO the Hudson street
Hospital
The buildings were occupied on the irst, third.
fourth and seventh floors and in the cellar and sub
cellar by the Manhattan Bed. Iron and Spring
Company and on the other floors by +. Mohr Il
CO.. manufacturers OF parlor furniture who also
occupied the two story factory W. the rear AZ nos
Il and g. Elizabeth-st The fire started In the base
mcnt or collar OF 80 q. whore william Mc'ann.
Of 80 476 Warren-st. Brooklyn Charles Smith ana
Jacob Eisman az work shipping excelsior
M~Cann noticed smoke and then fame In pack
age or excelsior In corner, and he shouted {" the
others. at the same time running over win some
water. which he threw on tho blaze. The oth'rs
threw water on the FIRE but without avail as the
infammable stun bazed up with great rapidly
a1d communicated to other goods nearby
The three men then ran 10 the head OF the stairs
leading 10 the sub-cellar. and they shouted TO
Michael conIiu. the engineer The flames Were
already attacking them. and they tried 10 rush
through The smoke 10 tho street McCann was
overcome hy the smoke as ne ran and he fell down
Michael Bagneil OF 80 rs hottest, butcher hoy,
vas passing AT the time lie saw the smoke coming
mp through opening in which there we're no
stairs He looked down and saw four men standing
there. William Russell. Of 80 pa East Ninety
nfih-st. also saw the men. and he suggested hu-
man chain Several others came up and BaSnel
grabbed Russell by the ankles. The others seized
Bagnell and held him while no held Russell. who
let himself head first down 70 the men, the hrst o,
whom he seized Then he was pulled mp. clinging
10 the first man. and be then let himself down again
and pulled mp the others All were partly overcome
Us the smoke.
Among these men was Couln. the engineer. lie
remembered that he had not turned of the steam
and he said he would go down and do so. in order
that there would be- no explosion. He went in. and
he has not been heard OF since
Mccain vas saved. but his hair was snged ana
he was half sufocated by smoke. The other two
men are not known.
An alarm was sent IN by some men TN the street
Is as the smoke seen. 1t was at 2:4
O'Clock when the fire started. I'm fow minutes
second and a third and then a fourth alarm were
sent I'm. The vast amount Of innammablc stun in
the building led 10 e confagration which went
through the building with lightning Ike rapidly.
There were about ifiy mon I'm the building when
the fire began The shouts Of the men in the
basement warned the others. They took to the nre
men saw the flames behind Thorn they became
panic stricken. and SOM" Of them jumped INTO
tho street John Mum dropped from the third
floor fire escape 10 tho street he so fortunate
rs 10 escape with broken ankle and bruises ana
se1h Kinze Jumped from tho fourth story win
do~ 10 tho street and his skull Vas fractured. ~
Hudson street Hospital
John j Collagy fireman Of Engine .ompany SO
- was holding one Of tho big nose nozzles IN front
Of the burning building. Somebody pushed out
and "a LOT OF tho broken glass fell on ColaGy H.
was severely clt about the head. face" neck and
hands. and he fen I'M he street lie Wa taken
Fireman McGrady. Of Engine Company No. 81:
has w s'sR@ eroy soaded about the head ana body
He fell unconscious he was placed IN an a ,.
Hospital His case is cri'ical
There was intense excitement in the six story
building at Canal-st. running from No s9 10 10
49, and known the ST. Nicholas Buldine j.
adjoins the burned building. ON the second floor
foriv Italian girls in his cloak factory. These
s smnke and they dashed for the windows some
o. them climbed out and were about to jump from
tho windows 10 the street. when Policemen fckert
and Ryan OF the Elizaheth-st station. rushed up
Eckcrt and Ryan dragged the girls back ana then
Tho two men got out themselves one stood on the
ledge Of the window and the other on me ledge or
tho window 1t. and thus they passed the girls
ono by one 10 each other. and then into the window
Of the next section ~ the building.
Mccain said that he could not hnd any trace or
tho how named Roger who was I'm the building D."
said when tho fire started The firemen FOUND no
one in any part Of the building into which they nai
been able 10 go and f. was feared that the boy
was lost The hre burned for three hours before
chief Croker said it was under control