Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-03-27
BIG FIRE RACED
ON BROADWAY
Greater New York Threatened
With Large Confagration.
MARROW ESCAPE OF FIREMEN

Streets Were Crowded with People
and Firmen Worked Amid Great DIE.
ficulty-DoubIe Nine Alarm Wac
Turned In-Losses Not Yet Known.
New York, March 26.-The building
at No. 16 Broadway, occupied by the
Morris Express company, is burning.
The flames spread rapidly.
On one side of the burning building
is the American Express company, on
the other is the Adams Express COM
pany. Occupants of the burning build,
ings are being removed by means o.
ladders.
The fire caused dense smoke which
penetrated many of the big buildings
in the neighborhood, compelling a ces-
sation OF all work. The flames are
making headway, but 1t is said all the
occupants of the upper floors have
.een removed. On Broadway for n
mile or more, are long lines of block
ed cars. Not in many months have
SO many engines and water towers
been seen downtown and from Fulton
street to Battery all street trSfic is
impossible. Z
The fire has extended to So and 81
Broadway, corner of Exchange alley
and Broadway The top floors of No.
81 are the New York offices of the
Pinkerton agency and their valuable
records are in danger. The tall EN-
pire building at rs Broadway, one OF
the finest office buildings In the city,
is greatly endangered. The Adams Ex-
press company building is practically
doomed
The police south of Fourteenth
street, numbering 500 men, have been
called cut. The firemen have held
the fire in check on the uptown side
of the building No. So the Weils-Far-
go and American Express companies'
Offices as not yet being on fire. The 1irs
is now believed to be under control.
Two employees OF the American Ell.
ond stroy window in an unconscious
condition.
At 1920 p. m. the double nine
alarm, the biggest signal used by the
fire department, has just been turned;
in, indicating that the fire Is not un-,
der control. The flames have reached
the roof of the American Express COM
pany building, and the building proba-
bly, will be destroyed. The flames
have sple cad to the building on Church
street, used as stables by the express
companies.
heSfremen were much hampered
in their work by the immense
crowds of spectators. Coming in
the middle of the day when, many
thousands were leaving work or go,
ing to their luncheon, the streets soon
became SO crowded that even the fire
engines had trouble getting through
the masses
About 100000 in cash In the offices
Of the Wells-Fargo Express company
was dumped into bags by the as.
sistant cashier and several assistants
and unprotected they went through the
caOs in the streets and deposited 1t In
the Knickerbocker Trust company.
Eighteen firemen who were working
their way into the Adams Express
oompany's building had 3 remarkably
narrow escape from being crushed by
falling walls. They had just enter.
ed the building from the Trinity place
side when the three upper stories
caved in and fell with q crash. Just
as the men gained the street yhen
the collapse came the fire blazed up
more fierceiy. .s...
1t is now believed that the fire is uIi.
der control as the flames do not SEEM
to be spreading beyond the building at
81 Broadway, where they started, and
that at No. SO, into which the flames,
had burned an entrance soon after tie
fire was discovered. The buildings
at 63 and 81 on the two sides OF the
burning structures, have not caught
fire, but will suffer considerable dam
age by water. sS