New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-02
R0CKAWAY FIRE SWEPT.
FOUR KILLED AND ELEVEN
INJURED.
FIREMEN UNABLE To FIGHT FLAMES
BECAUSE OF LACK OF WATER
LOSS S120OOO.

A score of hotels and other buildings in the
seaside section OF Rockaway Beach were de-
stroyed by fire yesterday morning, and four
persons lost their lives. while eleven others We're
injured ten of whom will probably die
The flames started about o'clock and owing
to there being little water available for fire use
for two hours the flames had a clean sweep
Had there been any wind blowing the whole
Seaside section would have been burned out
THE DEAD.
KAgTEN Max thirty ola Of the & pFSpEeto5 Of
after supposed, rescuing father
MKRow Mrs. Lydia thirty-two old. Of No. 1277
Herkiner-stt-, BrooAiyn.
MKRoW Frank five years &c Old & son OF er Ms Mcrow
THE INJURED.
lingtOn Hotel; arm broken while saving goods from
the Annex Hotel By Patro.Tnan AEens. the
hands was sss guest at the ST Ge5rge
in the Annex Hotel Sy Patroimsn Akens ''' ~
HANSEN. Martin: tweHty-eight years old, Of No. 351
about lace ana hands: treated Johns Hospital
1pP6 6ad 5[0 and xeed % to as d son.
MKROw. Thomas $. thirty-fve old. husband
f4theE % the woman ana fhd 81 the same @ name who
PECK, Edward: slight burns Annex
Hotel by Patrolnan Akens
PECK. Joseph: slight burns:
by Patroman Akens.
WARD. Joseph. George Hotel: burned about
face and arms.
That the list of dead and injured was not
many times greater due to the fact that
on Saturday fifty bicycle policemen were as
signed to duty at the beach over Sunday. These
men were all asleep at the station, two blocks
from the scene of the fire. when the alarm
turned in. When the alarm sounded. the ser
geant turned all the he had in the
house. The bicycle policemen went through the
hotels. bursting in doors and dragging the sud
denly awakened inmates out without waiting
for them to dress. Several of the policemen had
their coats burned in this work. Patroman
John Connolly, who has honorable mention for
rescuing persons at the Hotel Windsor fire, and
also for saving persons from drowning. rescued
three persons.
The fire started about o'clock in the kitchen
of Kasten's Hotel. The cause is not known, but
ii is thought that a gasolene stove exploded or
a pot of candy boiled over. About $50 o'clock
a policeman found a Hebrew Armenian boil
ing candy in front of the hotel. This man sold
candy in front of the hotel daily When the
patrolman came upon him the had the
stove on the veranda The officer ordered him
away from the porch, fearing fire and knowing
there were many guests in the hotel and the
other frame ones about 1t. The man obeyed and
IT is now supposed that he carried his stove and
Dot into the kitchen, to which he had access.
NO WATER TO FIGHT FLAMES
George Herr, whose hotel was close by, saw
the fire in the kitchen about 4 o'clock and at
once sent in alarm, but by the time the fire
men and police arrived Kasten's Hotel was burn
ing briskly The iremen hitched onto nearby
hydrants and found little pressure. pressure
gauge set on of the hydrants shortly after
ward showed only eighteen pounds, where there
should have been sixty-five. This lack of water
forced some of the firemen to go to the bay side.
but this was long pump and effective work
could not be done
The flames ran along both sides of Seaside
ave and turned into the Boulevard and Wash