The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-06
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uted 10 ea-es from burning aIes Of cotton
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Deputy Chief Guerin reached the place h.
sent In u third alarm without waiting To
send in n second.
Storphorse No. ~ Ia At the foot Of Arrislia
street. Adjoining II are s~torehoUsss Nos.
IA, 10 and ~, all ~ one story. All the build
ings contained the same materials.
Sir engines, all hat arc available on that
side ~ Staten Island. were soon ON and
A little later they were rec nforced by the
hreboats Abram \ Hewitt and New Yorker
Chief Croker arrived via the ferry shortly
after s O'Clock. The two story building was
then burning fieTcely. the dense smoke from
the cotton and hemp making IL almost i'm
possible for the firemen to work.
Warehouse No. II being hopeless, atten-
ton was directed to "a wing the surround
ing bu ildiDgs. Fireman BreIer was set
TO patrol the long corridor through the adj
Joining warehouse. No. ~, to give the alarm
at the first indication Of fire there. Chief
Croker a ccompa MED BreleT on one Of these
tripe through the building, and was just
about to leave when without warning the
wall Of No, II fell over on the roof OF the
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burning cotton and hemp.
The roof Of No. Is gave way beneath the
strain and crashed down. h conclusion
shot the chief and Breler toward the doc
Chief Croker landed some fifteen feet out
side, according to Deputy Chief Guerin,
who cav the accident, his hat following him
Breler was some distance behind the chief
and was caught by the falling timbers.
When the chief realized where he was
he got up, unhurt: and men were sent into
the building to find Breler. Fireman Thomas
Lynch Of Breler's company e ahead and
released him. An ambulance took the in
iured man to the Smith lnfirmary. He
was badly bruised.
The old Weiner Hotel. which is being fitted
up for flats. is near warehouse No. II. IL
was in great danger at one time, but the
fremen soon succeeded in getting the fire
under control.
The roof Of warehouse No. 10 caught
fire shortly after Chief Croker left, late in
the morning, but 1t was quickly put out.
with the aid Of three tugboats sent over
from ST. George by the Ba fillmore and Ohio
Railroad. This company, and also the Lee
high Valley, had offered aid earlier in the
morning, IL is said, but there did not seem
to be need for it.
Capt. Hogan of the Tompkinsville station
house had the inmates Of one or two houses
in the vicinity moved out until the danger
was over.
Deputy Chief Guerin places the loss at
about $500 900. He can give no definite
cause for the fire, According to Capt.
Hogan no one had been in the burned ware
houses since last Saturday,
As a result of the heavy drain on the
mains caused by the two fires and by the
streams which were poured continually
on the ruins of the earlier one during the
intervening time, residents OF that section
Of Staten Island which is supplied by the
North Shore reservoir are complaining
about their water supply. They say it is
verv muddy and has been so far a number
Of days. They also say that the pressure
is low and that sometimes the flow stops
entirely.
Chief Croker returned to the fire last
evening after 5 O'Clock and decided it was
40 we'll under control that the New Yorker
and Hewitt might return to their stations.
II will burn for a week yet at least.
Supt. Scott last night intimated the fire
might have been set. He said that last
Saturday night he discharged about a dozen
men, some Of whom were Italians and
resented his action. He thought it possible
that some Of them, being familiar with the
conditions, might have started the fire.