New-York tribune., 1899-07-30
FOUGHT A STUBBORN FIRE.
MANY FIREMEN OVERCOME AT A BLAZE
IN NORTH MOORE-ST

DENSE SMOKE TOO MUCH FOR THEM
TWO INJURED BY FLYING HOSE Noz-
ZLEs-sIX TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL.
One Of the most stubborn fires the men Of the
New-York Fire Department have been called
on to fight in years took place last night in
North Moore-st A score of flremen were over
come by the dense smoke. No dangerous in
turies were received. but number Of victims
were taken to the Hudson Street Hospital.
Nearly $1,000 damage caused by the
FIRE, which left standing only the walls Of
five story brick building Nos. -. - and 30
North Moore-st., and owned by the Trinity
Corporation The dense smoke hung over the
streets AMI river for hours while firemen re-
mained on duty all night, the ruins still smok-
ing. Not even cew Of the cause of the fire
Is known, though there is nothing suspicious
about II.
These men are in the hospital:
POWER WILLIAM. Engine No. Q. by smoke
CONWAY JOHN Engine So. IS. broken ankle
MURPHY. PETER F., Engine No. 8, arm cut; overcome
by smoke
MURRAY JOHN Engine No. o. overcome by smoke
sTUPP. JOHN. Engine No 30. right ankle broken
UHI. LOUIS Engine No o. overcome by smoke.
The fire was discovered in the sub-cellar OF
the building occupied by the William P. Sand
Rappolt. OF the Leonard-st station He saw
smoke coming in cloud from the grating or
ventator in front Of the building and he ran
70 North Moore and Greenwich SITS. TO send In
an alarm Meantime truckman, who had also
seen the smoke. jumped of his truck, and, run
ming to the front door Of the place managed to
batter open the door. thus enabling the fremen
TO get a quick stream on the fire as soon as
they arrived.
The entire building had been closed for several
hours all the windows being locked by iron
shutters and the fremen when they arrived
sent in a second and then third alarm
The smoke at once began to pour out In vol
umes as the fremen battered down windo"
shutters. and It rolled into the street and over
housetoos, choking the fremen and hanging ike
a pail over them.
The fire speedily made its way up the elevator
shaft 10 every floor. Two freboats steamed UP
to a nearby pier and sent water through nose
lines to the fire. Water Tower No. stood IN
front OF the building and poured two po"erIuI
streams
One Of the lines fell out Of the grasp OF nan
dozan men who were overcome at once by the
smoke The nozzle flew about. knocking over
hremen and eluding the grasp Of those who tried
IL.
John Conway. Of Engine -, tried TO grasp the
nozzle and the big piece Of brass MT MN IN lhe
ankle knocking him down and breaking the leg
=, ,ha orLle He was carried down ladder by
two half suffocated fremen ana 'hen '"Ne ~
the Hudson Street Hospital
The front of the burning building had shed
running the entire length Of II and at the same
height as that Of the building next door, o occu-
MED by Sheehan & Company, Wholesaie 49,
4 big crowd Of iremen were on TINS sheu lsn sa,
ing the fire through the smoke MliJm ,ha non fel
idIy overcoming them. one by one the 1, Iliei 80
down on the Shed and they were carr ~
other hremen. themselves almost overcoliIe' .
across this shed to the shed OF s.r, the r,indou
and taken into that building through Win VIII" w.
Mora than a dozen men were stricken DOWN ~
the dense smoke and they fell roI,ns ." M,
roof Ii was with the greatest uiiiiou'S ''1'
tho men could see one another , A.
'ne eAriatD n,en Johnson. who answered the fire on
tho third alarm administered 70 these men as
they lay in the Seeman building, Hi.er W tandson
lances had been summoned from .he i.a
S,neet tiosnitaI and two surgeons had treated
the men all except three went Dach W Sosn
despite the caution that they ought hot " ~ ~
Chief Croker directed the men 70 olan p.s q -
IN the rear wall while some OF TIE 0'heIs Is 80,
irving TO smash the iron shutters, ana ois hoe
was cut In the wall into Nhlch sIeaHs vi" ~
directed Hose lines were run III 'iii ~
house of Mrs. Lehing, at NO ~ f'eaCn-s Al a. ~
rear Holes were also cut IN the r0oi - ~
o-,x on an ex
E'irenan John Strip was at Work Oh al eA
tension ladder Of the building In the rear "heh
he fell and broke his ankle ~, q
Fireman Peter F. Murphy OF Engine no. y;
was AT work with his company on the rooi
when the smoke half sufocated the men, anu
they lost their hold on big hose line. Murphy
tried TO catch the nozzle when II MT MIN cut
ting his wrist and arm. and drencning him' ne
was taken TO the hospital . , .A
The fremen could not stand the smoHe TOT
many consecutive minutes. and they hao 70
leave the building every onse IN a"hiie 10 se'
air. , ..-A
II was o'clock before the fire broke thfoush
the roof of the building, and at about the SAM
time the hremen began 10 get II under cohtroi'
They had hose lines from all sides pouring water
on the burning building. and after time these
streams told Chief Croker announced ABOUT
o'clock that the hre under control ana
little later II practically out. though ne saiu
men would have 10 be at the place all night
The iremen estimated the losses as ioLo~ss'
Seeman a. Co. 10000: Booth q Co. Sl3VD'
Sandford Manufacturing Company S2oOo; T.
n smith 5000 and Potter Wrightingtoh'
$1,000 The building was damaged to tne eh-
tent OF $50 900 The Seeman company IN Jus own
building lost from water $4,000
The building was leased by smith ana ,,, suv.ee
70 all the Others. Only the walls or the puho'ns
are intact
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