New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-22
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lost their lives. Coleman was one OF the hrst 10
arrive at the fire. At the head a squad or ten
men from Companies IS and 80 he took line
of hose through the carriage runway and out
into the area
FACTORY WALL FALLS.
There were several piles of lumber there.
blazing fercely, while from the windows OF the
factory there were geysers of flame. Coleman
stood to one side and slightly in front of his
men. Lieutenant Stickles was directing the pipe
men. without the slightest warning the wall ol
the factory buckled and fell outward.
The men dropped the hose and rushed for the
street. Lieutenant Jones, of Enginee No. 81,
and Lieutenant Stickel were caught by the wall
Jones dragged himself free and staggered after
his men, Stickel was less fortunate. His ankle
was broken and he so stunned that he
could not move. Ffremeu Van Loon and Brady,
of his company grabbed him by the shoulders
and dragged him out.
When the men reached the street they found
that Coleman had not followed them Three
rushed back into the building Before they had
gone twenty feet they were driven back blinded
by the back draught. Father Smith, the fire
chaplain, who went to the fire i'll. dashed into the
building No one saw his heroic action or knew
of 1t until the fremen heard him family crying
for help. At first they thought it Coleman
and crawling into the building, they grasped
the priest by the wrists and pulled him out lie
was overcome by the heat and the flames. He
was carried into Italian saloon, where he was
attended by a Fire Department surgeon. De
spite the fact that he could scarcely Keep his
feet he refused to leave the fire.
From that time on it took every effort OF the
f1remen to keep the fire from spreading. Just
before midnight some men of Truck NO Is saw
the body of Chief Coleman in the rear or the
varnish factory. They could not reach 1t until
late this morning, for the ruins or the bundlhS
were still blazing fercely and the ruined ma
chinery that had crashed down through the
floors at white heat
Battalion Chief Coleman was forty-fve years
old and entered the Fire Department When
young man. He lived at No. 300 East Four
teenth-st with his three small children. Cole
man was a widower and spent every minute
that he could with his children. He was Sen
nett medal man. Several years ago at a f1re IN
a boarding house in East feminist he rescued
several people at great personal risk for which
he received the medal. He was made battalion
chief last August.
When the second alarm sounded his
driver James McAvoy, went to his house Tor
him. He was eating dinner with his children.
Before he left the house he kissed them all
goodby, telling them that he would be back in
time to play games with them before they
went to bed Half an hour later he was dead
Joyce was appointed to the uniformed force
only ten days ago. He lived at No. 915 Lorimer-
ST.. Brooklyn.
phael Calafano of No. ga Mott-st., We're arrest
ed at Mott and BroOme SITS. by Roundsman
Butler, of West Thirtieth-st, and Policeman
Palmer, OF lue Olu oIp SNdIlOli' iSe9-
of No. PA Canal-st.. said they had jumped on
him. choked him and robbed him of his watch
at the fire.
Dominick Marinetto, OF No. so Elizabeth-st
reported that he had been robbed OF 500
check and 800 in cash while looking at the nre
woman, whose identity the police did not
divulge, reported that she had been held up
at Broome and Elizabeth SITS. by two unknown
men and robbed of her pocketbook contain
ing $50.
The two boys that rang in the first and second
alarms for the fire were arrested for sending
in false alarms. Patrolman Pulley saw Tony
Patruccio sound the first one and run away. He
ran plump into F'ulleys arms. The patrolman
started to take the boy to the Euzabeth-st
station, but had hardly started when another
boy ran down Mott-st. and, after ringing an
alarm, also ran into the pocemans arms. Both
were too much frightened to give any eXplana-
ton of their hurry and had not Captain Lang
don and the fremen arrived before the patrol
man reached the station both would have been
locked up.