The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-11
East River Navigation
Partly Stopped.
MANHATTAN TOWER A TORCH.
Rain Of White.Hot Steel on
Firen,cn and River Graft.

Workers All Safe-WOrk WIN he De.
iayed From Three Months to a Year
Big Gables Have sagEcd and Little
Ones Have Gone titogpther-Perilou
Fight with Flames 33s Feet In the
Air-Bravery Of bridge Workers Who
Volunteered for Firemen's Work and
hid II Weii-DamaEe TO Tools and
False Work SsS.OOO AIone-Totn
Lcss impossible 10 Estima te-BiE
Sound steamers We're Held Up. bat
the Small Ones Went Under the Fire
An insignificant work shed on the south
side OF the New York pier Of the new East
River bridge blazed up. just how nobody
knows. AZ dusk last evening
In three hours the fire had spread all
across the top Of the tower through $4,000
feet of lumber stored there Three Of the
four main cables. which have been in pro-
Cess OF construction since August, 1901
we're injured Thew will have 20 he rebuilt
in part. at any rate, delaying tho compile
ton Of the bridge cor siderably.
Under the main cables the temporary
brdg-H we're suspended from four small
cables and these were burned of and fell
With the fall Of the cables and the foot,
bridges there was dropped tangle Of
vrecLsge from the New York pier half
way out over the river. like yarn han gin z
from a clotheslin~ This constitutes so
much Of a menace 10 navigation that AZ one
lime the harhor police shut of all traffic
under the bridge.
Later boats were allowed 10 pass under
The bridge SO long as they kept within four
hundred feet 81 the Brooklyn shore. Five
Sound steamboats, we're tied up al this
end Of the river and nearly twenty
more were said TO be waiting al different
points along the Sound for permission
to rsss, when late last night the embayo
was Withdrawn.
FIREMAN soRELY HrRT-No wonKMEN LOST
There were a number Of reports that
~orkmen had lost their lives. One fairly
CTcuIne'dn'hl S'oly "dr 'na' 'nie' H'en
fell with the temporary foot bridge. This
was disproved later
As far as could be learned AZ midnight
there were no men missing but as the men
on the bridge had quit work for the night
before the fire started it will be impossible
to he certain until the men report for work
this morning
One fireman, Jeremiah Haggerty, of the
freboat william l.. Strong, was struck
In the back by bolt % red-hot iron and
he will probably die Of his injuries.
The damage to the tower. tho materials
and tools on it and the footbridg"s is esti-
mated = s7sooo but this is probably only
y small part Of the total The damage tc
The great cables cannot he learned unit
full examination * made The police ~.
innate & tha dana G. wits $50 900
RAIN or OIL AND wHIrE-HOT STEEL
TIE FIRE was AZ he top of a skeleton stee
structure. 333 fcet in The air 7, was fed
hv twenty or more barrels 81 nbrca,ina
~ inaammsbln material for wrapping th'
hig cables. The frcmen faced almost
Iny,rmountahle difficulties in attempting
IN stop II
\ torrent Il sparks, blazing oil and tim,
hers and Of white hot iron and steel fol
for an hour or more down through IN,
STRUCTURE What made = spectacle Of i'm
r,sing grandeur for everybody in sigh
ut the grea' structure in Brooklyn and
Manhattan along ~" last River water
front, was a constant renace 81 horrible
death 10 the men who were trying To say,
II 10 bridge from total destruction
GREAr SPECTACLE
Besides the flaming torch at the tor
and the constant shower Of sparks, lik,
q fount ain playing in all directions ahou
the steel shaft, the beauty e the fire a.
spectacle "a. greatly enhanced 10y tn
work Of the -earchlighj on tho police boa
Patrol, which Was tied up near the Crane
street ferry slip.
Tho spear If white light from he lpntcri
played up aud iov tho work and thei
along he tagging and tangled wreck o. III,
f1o'hridgc H. it hung in tho loops Of IA,
siSreadng cables. The police were tryin,
- discover whether thor" We're any work
man tangled in { hc vrocf. but il looked q
though they were merely tracing an intri
cate pattern for the iun - tho thing an,
the delight Of tho spectators.
livery bolt and iron beam and grdor tina
FL from the top Of the tower droppe,
through the not work of steel below will
Tcverberating thunder like that of hatterio
II artillery. When the fire was AZ It's wurs
these noises were so loud and 50 constan
that men n block away could not hear cacl
other speak
gosE USELESS hand ENTINGUlSHERs rsED
The falling missiles struck Orders a
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