The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-06
EXPLOSIONS KILLS AND MAINS.
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hou"e' arriving 'he'e ~ Tue sa"o u"e'
n Nhgle haIi door ~ one sue OF 'he dyeinB
establishment was looked. This led IN the
uppar floors. The two policemen put their
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nileu hals ana iouho JOSEF erop'hs aDoue
outside his rooms Pie had run up stairs
he says, to rescue his family. while Wag-
her ieo the husband 10 the street uehes
rushed into the rooms and got Mrs Josep
and her baby.
by the time the policemen reached tins
sidewalk with the Josep family the nre-
men had arrived in answer TO an alarm
mat had been sounded from the corner
OF Ffty-tfth street and Tenth avenue.
Josep, who could hardly speak English,
waved his arms hystericaliy ana pointed
to the second floor, where there were no
signs OF life.
The police and hremen realized what
he was trying to tell them. They quickly
came to the oonolusion that some one was
in the rooms OF the second floor Lieut..
Matthew'S OF Engine Company o.
with Firemen Connors M Mooney OF mis-
command and foreman Bleibtrey and Fire
man Piper OF Truck :, got a line OF hose
into the hallway and began to hght their
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lhey got up az lar as the second noor
in an endeavor to rescue a man named
Patrick Herman OF n avenue.
Herman had dashed upstairs ahead OF them
in the hope OF being able to drag out some
persons he heard were there. Inc nremen
got Herman and started back with MN.
just as they were near the grouho tne ex-
plosion occurred.
Il When The aXnlOalOD took Mace the
building shook as II in an earthquake;
every window in the entire four floors was
blown out n the glass rained down on the
heads of the police. fremen and ciuHens
who had gathered in the street. The force
| of the explosion was so great that the floors
were ripped up and holes were torn through
| the roof.
Thu fremen in the smoke blackened hall-
way were knocked off their feet and show
cred by splinters and bits Of glass. To
make matters worse, a sheet of FAM shot
out into the hallway, badly smuggling the
men. 1t was with great difficulty that
| they managed to grope down toward
the entrance. They would probably never
ha We reached there had not the other fire.
men who had arrived by this time got a
line of hose stretched into the building and
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with a stream Of water.
The men were dragged out after the
water had beaten down the flames and
partly cleared the smoke AS soon as the
ambulances arrived, the men VINO were
most seriously injured were hurried away
to Roosevelt Hospital
While the fremen were attacking the
flames from In front, some one hVins IN inc
rear ran around and old OF nearing a tnuo
and seeing what appeared TO Ds a ood1
stretched out IN the rear YARD Inc hreheh
and policemen VINO Went 70 inveSOigaos
found Mrs' bernard the wife OF 'he oyer
a burned ana charreu mass III 'ne YARD
She had been IN her hign' cioChes anu
was olown out Oh oeo snu 'hrousn d fe"'
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