The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-27

noon One other fireman was injured 40
severely that he nlay not recover. Three
more were hurt slightly.
Nearly a hundred families were evicted by
the police from adjacent enement houses.
More than fifty girls whose escape was cut
of were rescued. One building was crushed
into a heap of debris and half a dozen
others were burned ~ that they are UNI
inhabitable.
The fire began in a seven story brick
building owned and occupied by the Metal
Stamping Company, the Standard Thread
Company and the Empire Art Works.
The stamping company had the first,
second, third and re venth floors, the thread
company had the fourth and sixth floors
and the art works were on the fifth. Al
together there we're about four hundred
persons employed in the building and all
escaped. An explosion Of chemicals on
the third foor in the japauning room OF
the metal company's plant started the
blaze.
The fremen killed We're:
JOHN p. WALSH. foreman OF Engine Company "A,
800 East Twenty third street.
GEORGE b. CHRISTIAN. fireman, Engine Company
IA, 1871 East Fifty NTH street.
DENNIS J. HEATY, fireman, Engine Company H.
Ell Fast sixty ninth street,
THOMAS + HALPIH. fireman, Hook and Ladder
Company %, transferred mporaHly 10 Engine | 4
i9 Perry street. ;
The fireman seriously injured was John
F, MoKeon of Engine IA, living at 3l4 East
Fourteenth street. He was taken to st.
Yincent's Hospital with a severe scalp
wound and burns. He was in very bad
shape.
Another fireman hurt 80 that he had to
remain in st. Vincent's Hospital was Jacob
Cohen Of Engine IA. His injuries consisted
chiefly OF burns. Lewis F, Mccall of the
came company, who was burned was treated
at st. Vinoent's and returned to his work.
George Washburn Of Fire Patrol 2 was
burned slightly and was attended TO at
st. Vincent's.
An Italian named Pietro Luourio was
taken to the hospital and treated for shock.
John Kelly, a fireman Of Engine IA, was
overcome by smoke, but recovered at the
fire and resumed his work. DR.. H. Nj.
Archer Of the Fire Department had a bone
in his left hand broken and was treated on
the ground by DR.. A. NJ. Wright Of st. Vim
cents; he went hone A fireman named
Kilmer OF Truck S had a finger injured. but
did not leave MIS- companions
There was a report that two Italians
from one Of the burned houses were missing,
but the police had no confirmation Of it.
Although the loss by fire was less than
$500, 900, no fire for several months has 80
taxed the energies Of the Fire Department.
Four alarms were sent in and eighteen
engines, four trucks and q water tower
responded. Chief Croker, Deputy Chief
Kruger and three battalion chiefs were
in attendance. Fire COMMISSIONS O'Brien
left a meeting Of the Board Of Aldermen
to 20 to this scene.
First Deputy Police Commissioner Waldo
went over from Mulberry street, Inspector
Hogan had nearly 400 policemen on hand.
They were the reserves from seventeen
precincts.
About forty horses OF one of the Borden
Milk Company's stables we're hurried into
the streets and more than thirty wagons
we're hustled out. Dozens Of women
tainted as they were being taken down the
fire escapes Of the burning building,
1t was exactly 124 As P. NJ. when the ship
ping clerk Of the Metal Stamping Company
rushed from the building to turn in a fire
alarm. A CRY OF warning ran through the
entire building.
Nearly 100 girls in the thread company's
employ we're seized with panic. Only
some Of them we're able to reach the stairs.
There we're also about thirty girls en-
ployed by the Empire Art Works. They
were making celluloid combs and other
novelties in celluloid. Knowing the in
flammable nature of the material they
made a rush for safety. The employees
-. al -aAr l,,N
they Joined in the flight downstairs.
Patrolman John F. Mcdonnell, who has
the factory on his beat. saw the conmo-
ton and ran to the place. He was joined
bv Patrolman James Nolan of the Charles
street station and Patrolman j. J.. O'Con-
nell Of Inspector Hogan's staff. Another
patrolman Of the Tent precinct. whom
the other policemen did not know, also
ran up.
The four men dashed for the fire escape
ON the Downing street side Of the build
ing. They helped the women down and
let the men take care Of themselves. The
building had a frontage of 10 feet on Bed
ford street and 92 feet on Downing street.
1t burned like n finder box,
The first police reserves to reach. the
Scene were those from the Charles street
station house under Roundsman Creole.
He gathered ten men together n at once
began to go through the tenements oppo-
site the burning building on both Bedford
and Downing streets and those on Carmine
street, which backed up against the fire
with a ten foot alley bet
The police had a stubborn fight with the
tenants. As soon as they cleared a floor
some of the people, most of whom were
Italians, would run back into their rooms
to get treasured belongings. Women with
bundles OF household goods came %clatter,
ing down the stairs, Children bearing
babies in their arms followed. Screams
and shouts were heard above the roar OF
the flames and the shouts Of the fremen.
In the meantime, under the wet skies,
black smoke filled the streets 80 that they
were as if enveloped in a London fog. To
the west OF the burning building was q
tenement which IVES soon in flames. Mex
to that, on Bedford street, was Borden's
stables. Many of the men we're out on
their Monday collecting. There were forty
horses on the seconu and third floors,
Most Of them were got out on the runways,
but the last few taken out had 10 be brought
down by elevators.
The horses were frightened and FESTIVE
and in the confusion Of running Out the
wagons the people evioted from their
homes on tn e opposite side Of the street
had many arrow escapes from being