New-York tribune., 1900-06-13
THREE PERISH BY FIRE
ELEVEN OTHERS INJURED IN COOPER

AGE PLANT BLAZE IN BROOKLYN
Three men dead and eleven others badly hurt
Is the result of a fire that broke out at 5:45
O'Clock yesterday afternoon in the Weidmann
Cooperage, North Eleventh-st and Wythe- ave-
Brooklyn. The building was burned out It was
four story brick structure where hundred
men were employed at the time of the fire. 1t
extended from No 63 to No. 73 North Eleventh
st, back to North Twelfth-st and from wythe-
ave. halfway to Kent-ave Following Is the list
Of dead and injured:
DEAD.
bTnsd ftyPne Mn old of No "a
Eastern District Hospital ' ee'-s a ''''
LOCKWOOD. JOHN NJ sxty-six years old of No 73
IL O'Clock last night D''''''' ''o'p'''i at
man badly burned to be identified The body was
taken to the police station North First~st and
THE INJURED.
BROWN, James of No. 40 Kent-ave.
coc0MA Franz Rrt thirteen years old of No 40 Have
CoLWELL, Charles. hfty-three years old Of No g.
Of Wsve ehdrsn the IRE broke OUT he is the
DoNiFIA Sa ] John fifteen old of No rs
tusiOns of the body; treated at the engine house
HA9LETT James, thrty-four years old OF No. 10
kent-ave.. scalp wound; went home.
s0nsdn hEs S i've Yea @ G Of No 557 Cen
LEAMAN George twenty yesrs old of No. 24s
broken leg ~ -'' 90
LOCKWOOD. John M, jr. twenty-four years DID, Of No
13 Devoe-st, contusions.
SMITH. Augustus address, burns
TRAVERS. John OF No. 40 Kent-ave
Boy burnt; sent to ST. GATHERINGS Hospital.
Ihe injured not otherwise noted above were
taken TO the Eastern District Hospital
The fire broke out the third floor of the
building, and when the engines arrived the
building enveloped in flames The first
alarm was sent in by telephone by an employe
and three other alarms We're turned in quickly
by the police when it was seen how rapidly the
inflammable material in the building-about ten
thousand barrels-was being attacked by the
flames. Engines Nos. u and p responded to the
first alarm Eight engines and three trucks in
all answered to the different alarms. water
tower also arrived, but not used.
Owing to the rapid spread of the flames the
escape of many of the employees in the building
seemed for a time to be cut off. There was a one
story extension North Eleventh-st. and
Wythe-ave., and there the fremen on the roof
spread a net, into which many Of the employees
leaped and escaped serious injury. The heat
however, soon became too intense, and the fire
men had to abandon their posts. Other men
jumped from the first and second story windows
in most instances receiving injuries which in
some cases. stated, were treated at the hos
pital and in others they were able to go home
after treatment on the spot by the ambulance
surgeons.
When the wall fell in North Eleventh-st. about
Z o'clock there thrown out into the road
way the body Of a man terribly burned that
1t could not be identified. This body was taken
to the Bedford-ave police station.
James Haslett of No. 40 Kent-ave., climbed
up the fire escape to tie first story, where several
of the employees were hanging out of the upper
windows, apparently panic stricken and scream
ing for help. He rescued two men, and when he
reached the ground old man. with clothes
ablaZe, jumped out of the first story and landed
on Haslett, cutting his head and face. The fire.
men of Engine No. u rescued several men
whose clothes fire from the second and
third floors.
big tank of the Standard Oil works in the
rear of the building carefully looked after
by the fireman, who constantly kept streams of
water playing upon it, Two frame dwelling
houses at Nos. 80 and 81 North Eleventh-st.
were damaged by water and partly burned. The
ten families occupying them got out in safety.
The damage by fire and water was estimated
by the police. at $4,000 The cooperage is
owned by Louis and Paul Weidmann and their
mother. Louis Weidmann refused last night to
give any estimate of the loss. The property was
insured.
blaze. The fire lines were in charge Of Captain
Short Sergeants Reardon and Bunce and
Roundsmen Brennan and Halloran, with the re-
serves from the Fifty ninth. Sixty-second,
Sixtythird and Sxty-ffth precincts. Private
Woodford of the Ambulance Corps at Gov
ernors Island, gave valuable volunteer aid to
the ambulance physicians in caring for the in
jured.