The evening world., 1906-05-26

his face ana read was gone and he had
inhaled the flames He sank uncon-
seious and probably dying at the foot
Of The stops 20 the entrance. Both
were hurried OF 70 the New York Hos
pitai
When the flames burned through The
olnsv rear walls they caught the girls
IA the Twenty fourth street laundry
ana ,he men upstairs. already panic
stricken by the explosion OF short
lime before In a wildly futtering herd
they were jamming the staircases 20
me street when burst OF smoke told
them their building was already at
tackled.
policemen. citizens and the few Are
mon Who could be spared from tho
TN.ntv-nfth street side put UP ladders
and carried down scores of the young
women who had tainted.
John o'Connor. keeper IN the Jeher-
son Market Court Prison. was on the
scene. and several girls told him taai al
old man and four young women We're
cut on by flames on the third floor.
Saved Five from Death
o'connor. with two other men to help
han. ran UP ladder ond passed down
the five. who were overcome by smoke
When they were taken out hre was
sweeping the walls within twenty iso'
OF where they lny, ana death would nave
been certain In Few more minutes,
Already walls il parts OF the DIX ~
tory on TwentN-iourth street we're 'o'
Men from Engine Company No; u
were scaling A twenty -clght-foof ladder
vent down Many oi them were thrown
oui of the range OF the orick, put DINERS
y.tre cauent and seriously hurt
in the zo,., ot ure were more than
$50 horses The stables We're those oi
the Walton Scenery and BaSgase Conf
r,dnv No 90 West Twenty y-nfth "tfett'
and the stable OF James J. Duity. on
TNtuty-fouIth street. All the norses
were taken out safely by volunteers.
There was great dungst for almoSt an
hour that thv flames would spread 10
Noore Brothers lumber yard. across
Twenty-nfth street from the scene OF
the EXPLOSION The firemcn Kept eeN-
,,ral streams % water on the renee oi
the yard. Although the fence smoked
with the heat. and the water went W
in great clouds OF steam. IL was as
sured late this afternoon tnat the Naru
was saf, aud that fire would H. COW
fined - the block where II started
f,ads the humber yard caught fire TIE
flames. famed w thc sin breeze on
the North RIVER. woulc IN All Nkeihooi
have spread over much OF the west side
factory ana tenement district. After
two hours fighting Il Ms practically
CERTAIN that all the buildings on tAe
burning block would De entirely de-
stroyed.
battalion Chief In Crash.
There were several accidents on the
way to the FIRE, for the fiNe alarms
brought the apparatus at record-preak-
ing speed Battalion chief Lucas was
dlSning across Ninth avenue ~ Nine
teenth street when "A ufface cur coI-
ided with his carriage. lie was thrown
ont. but escaped with n few bruises.
His carriage was smashed ana ne nm
ished his trip on car
The chief OF the Twenty-hfth battalion
had Just raced up 10 Twenty-nfth street
ana Tenth avenue when his horse be-
came frightened and dashed into the
crowd just after the chief had leaped
out Many persons were howled oyer.
and three were so badly bruised tnai
they were attended by one OF the halt-
dozen ambulance surgeons. The morse
WAS caught by policemen.
For a time Chtef Croker had great
trouble IN making any leadway against |
the flames. and sent for another nre- |
boat with three ot these pumping IN |
powerful streams from the RIVER re |
reserves from fifteen preTincts We're |
hustled Tn the block hut they seemed !
unable TO keen anything Ike police |
lines 4 crowd OF la.pa persons came |
from all over the west side ana inter-
fered with the hremcn. besides running |
q risk OF being injured.
After the fire had reached Us climax |
and was supposed to he wearing Itself |
out. several thousand more persons be |
gan to arrive In automobiles. carriages
and cars from all over Manhattan