The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-02-09
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here, anyway, as there's hardly year
that the losses don't go way up. ] tell
you. Scranton's no bonanza for fire in
surance men. However. something will
probably be done about yesterdays
fire. and, of course. thorough investi-
CATION Is anticipated in the matter OF
ascertaining where the blame Is to be
fixed, IL the water supply was at fault.
and so on"
Harry Walsh, of 621 River street,
the clerk In NJ. J. Horan's store who
fell to the ground from a ladder near
the third floor while trying to make
his escaped from the building after
having warned the inmates of the up
per floors OF their danger. yesterday
rested easily at his home. His hip
and arm were bruised in the fall and
large amount of inhaled smoke also
caused him some trouble, but no seri-
ous injuries were sustained by the
young man.
Driver Thomas Campbell. who was
crushed beneath the ladder when
Walsh fell, carried his broken right
arm In sling yesterday, and many
others of the firemen are going around
with cuts. bruises and burns as SOU
yenirs OF the biggest fire experienced
h+re in years.
MISS WALSH DISCOVERED 1T.
MI. Walsh was seen at his home
yesterday by a Tribune man. A fact
| hot previously announced was brought
"rt In conversation with him. which
was that the young woman who dis
covered the fire and informed Edward
Horan of 1t, who turned in the alarm,
was Miss Mary Z. Walsh, a sister Of
Harry Walsh. Miss Walsh is employed
| IN HOran's shops on the fourth floor
and had entered the hall of the Hem
| wood building about o'clock. She
stepped to the elevator shaft and, on
looking down It, saw a fiercely burning
Elaze at the foot. Even as she watched,
almost paralyzed at first by tho sight,
| the flames gave a wild. fierce upward
| leap and savage tongue of fire shot
ul' the shaft.
Then ii was she sounded the alarm
| OF fire and her brother, rushing up
| the steps, warned the car accountants
| on the third floor. fifty in number, who
| otherwise might have met a horrible
death. He then continued to the fourth
Noor. but Photographer Grambo and
pr. c. II. Tilton had already been
warned by the shaft of flame and had
| left by the rear fire escape.
The remainder of the story can best
| be told in Mr.. Walsh's own words. The
young mans disposition is of the quiet
est and his narrative could only be
eicited after much persuasion and
| then was given in the most matter
| Of fact manner. 1t follows:
II found myself penned into Gram
| Dos. the stairs a mass of flame and
! our passenger elevator shaft a raging
| furnace. The flames had spread from
this shaft all over the fourth floor and
when ] tried to reach the fire escape
| in the rear was confronted by a solid
| wall of fire. The grease In the shaft
nlust have had a great deal to do with
| the rapidity with which 1t shot up
ward.
| AT any rate, / was blocked. The
| fire was fair pouring into Grambo's J
| from the rear and I was forced to
| climb out OF the window and hang on
| to Grambo's sign. suppose I held
on only for some minutes. but 1t seemed
like centuries to me. could hear them
| shouting for me to jump into the net
| that was stretched below, but injured
one of my legs some time ago and
was afraid to risk jump.
| AT last, after what I think was a
great deal OF delay. they got the lad
| aers up tc me and / started down. Half
way between the third and fourth
| floors the ladder gave way and down
| went What were my sensations
| then, did you say: Well, / can tell you
| il wasn't no pleasant dream that had.
| Poor Campbell. He broke my fall
| and either l or the ladder broke his
arm
| The Lackawanna car accountants de-
partment will probably be located on
the top floor OF the Mears building as
soon as things can be arranged in
shape to renew their recent work. 1t
will take some time to recoup the lost
| records which were consumed in the
| flames.