New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-28
KILLED IN FLUSHING FIRE
ONE NAN, 8 HORSES, DEAD.
WOrSt Since 1872-Entire Business
District Threatened.

One man and eight horses burned to death
three large stables and a carriage factory en-
tirely destroyed another large stable badly
wrecked and half a dozen other buildings
scorched. is the record in brief of a disastrous
fire that visited Flushing early yesterday morn
ing and at time threatened the entire busi-
ness section of the village. It was the worst
fire in Flushing since 1872. The damage done
IS about $4,000
1t is because of a defective telegraph fire
alarm SYSTEM that the fire got great headway.
1t broke out at 435 a. m. in frame stable in
the rear Of No. - Broadway. and occupied by
L, Boyer & Sons. of No. so Water-st. Man
haitian. They a freight steamer between
Manhattan and Flushing. and used this stable
for horses and trucks.
The fire was discovered by Patrolman William
Fountain. The nearest alarm box is at Broad
way and Matn-st., about half a block away
Fountain pulled this, but it would not work
Then he ran to Box So. at Linden-ave and
otate-st., two blocks distant This, too, would
not work. Then Fountain ran four blocks to
Box "a. in Main-st., between Washington and
Amity SITS. This proved as useless as the others
In the mean time. Patrolman Armstrong had
pulled Box PC, at Lawrence-st. and Broadway
but had no better results than Fountain. Then
Sergeant Murray a the police station dispatched
OF
sexton of St. Georges Parish Church fully half
a mile distance He was reused from his bed
hurried to the church tower and tolled the
church bel. The police records SHOW lAAt
twenty-five minutes elapsed from the time the
fire was discovered until the alarm was sounded
on this bell In the mean time. however the
engineer of the newspaper train or its way back
from Whitestone the fire before the train
left College Point and blew the locomotive whis-
tie all the way from that place 10 Flushing.
Before the f1remen succeeded in getting ef-
fective streams on the flames the stable of
Boyer & Sons was entirely consumed, and the
flames had communicated TO the stable of Sam
uel Jackson, furniture dealer; to the carriage
mandatory of Joseph e. Van Nostrand: to the
stable of Henry McCreedy. a hackman; to the
Flushing Hotel. to the large stables of Frederick
c. Aver a literyman, where there were over
sixty horses, and to The Flushing Daily Times
building. In fact. the entire central part of the
large block bounded ty Broadway North Prince
st, Safest. and FarringtOn-st was one blazing
mass.
All the police reserves were called out from the
Seventy-sixth, Seventy-fifth and Seventy-fourth
precincts; Also from the first and second sub
precincts OF the Seventy-sixth. Firemen arrived
from Long Island City. from College Point and
from Whitestone
1t was only by heroic work that the Flushing
Hotel and The Times" building We're saved.
All the guests of the hotel hurried from their
rooms in their night clothes and took refuge in
the Fountain House. the opposite side of
the park. Practically everything movable was
taken from the newspaper building. piled in the
street and guarded by police reserves. Both
buildings are badly Scorched but are not dam
aged to any extent The storage warerooms or
Samuel Jackson, at No. 6S Broadway where
thousands of dollars worth OF fine furniture is
kept were also on fire several times.
BY o'clock the fire practically out and
the large crowd which had gathered began to
disperse
In the stable of Boyer & Sons investigators
found the charred body of It was later
ascertained TO be that of James, or Spike"
Hogan, helper employed on of the firms
trucks Hogan was much given to drinking and
it is believed that he went into the stable while
intoxicated to remain for the night, smoking
and that his cigar or pipe set fire to the stable
after he was asleep Hogan about forty
years old. He lived with unmarried sister
Miss Katharine Hogan, at No. 100 Washington
st, Flushing.
The total loss will probably be nearly $40 600
Later in the morning horse that had been
forgotten found alive in box stall in the
rear OF Ayers stable. The stall underneath
the hay loft, and the water soaked hay had pro-
tected the horse from the heat. but that the ami
NAL escaped suffocation is considered remark