The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27
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ion ~ Jersey CGty. slmo-, due north ~
gl. Island The former Caused = los- N
nnnp and ssveral per4uns werr injured
In II tho latter resulted In S9oo ,OO. without
any Insurance NY an odd cuincidsnce a
metal mrniturs factory WIS demolished by
O,cb Ere
\ cartoy ~ chemicals exploded In the
factory " fucker. Levet, a Loeb. at
wa 70 $50 West Twenty NTH street,
and in a few minutes the entire
building was In flames. The FIRE spread
u Twenty fourth street and when the
frenen finally drowned IL out five alarms
had been cent In, about SzSo 600 damage had
been done and si1 injured persons had
heen taken TO the hospitals. None Of
them will die.
The explosion took place at as o'clock
in the storage room Of the Fucker company,
which makes dynamos and motors and
deals in chemicals, According to an en-
ployee, Frank Gabriel Of 800 East Seventeen
street. who said he was In the room at the
time, the carboy was being sealed with hot
wax. The explosion set the room on fire.
Frederick Martin Of 400 Germania street,
Jersey City, and Max F. Zuraline OF SIT
West Forty-second street were near the
carboy and both were so severely burned
that they we're sent to the New York Hos
pital. Martin ran into the street with his
clothing ablaze end fell in the gutter. sev-
eral persons ran TO his aid, smothered the
flames and carried him TO safety.
The fire spread with great rapidity,
and although an alarm was rung promptly
the whole front Of the building was ablaze
by the time the firsmen arrived In the
meantime there had been considerable ex-
element among the hundred employees
in the building. On the third foor were
about forty girls. They became panic
stricken and were running around aim
lessly when Roundsman Collins. James
Murphy. the elevator boy. and Frank
Gabriel reached them and guided them
to the fire escapes and the elevator. Murphy
kept tho elevator running until firebrands
began to fall down the shaft. BY that
time everybody was out.
Two Of the girls, Alice MoGinn OF sic
West Forty-fourth street and Harriet Friss
Of 4s5 West Twenty-eighth street, had TO
make a dash through the flames to reach
the Are escape, and they were burned about
the hands and face. They were also SUI
ferIng from shock, and Policeman Gala
han carried them down through an ad-
joining building and sent them to the
hospital.
The first battalion chief to arrive saw
that the iremen were going to have a hard
fight, and he sent in q second and third
alarm in a hurry. Within twenty minutes
after the fire was first seen a fourth alarm
was sounded. The fire had spread back
to the buildings In Tw~enty-fourth street
by that time, and all were burning 30
briskly that 1t was feared that the entire
block down to Eleventh avenue would go.
Two lumber yards were near enough
to cause the flremen some anxiety, too,
and at s:14 o'clock, when the blaze was
nearly an hour old, the fifth alarm was
sent in. At about that time the freboats
Mcclellan and New Yorker arrived and
hitched up to the water towers with their
big hose lines. The fire stopped spreading
then and there.
In the rear of the Fucker Building, at
b25, 527 and $40 West Twenty-fourth street,
was a four story brick building which soon
caught fire and burned with great rapidity.
The Mutual Steam Laundry Company
occupied the ground floor Of this structure
and fifty girls worked there. They got out
without injury, although they were pretty
badly scared. w. d g.. Sohlesinger 4 Co., !
who manufa cture metallic furniture, 90 |
cupied the uppe floors Of this building
with Eugene Dietzg gen q Co., and both were
burned out. Next door on the west IL the
FIVE story brick building Of James j. Duffy, |
and the flames got a good hold upon the
upper floors Of this, but the firemen stopped
them there and the building was only
damaged.
Two firemen were hurt while working
on the laundry building. They were
Michael Stevens and William B. Cahill Of
Engine 10, They were dragging q bose up
q thirty-eight foot ladder and had almost
reached the top when the ladder broke
and they fell with 1t. Stevens suffered
internal injuries and Cahill got of with a
broken ankle. Both were sent TO the New
York Hospital.
The fire made a huge cloud Of smoke;
which caused folks over in Jersey City
to believe that o large part Of New York
was in flames. The piers Of Jersey City
and the streets along the river front were
crowded with spectators, and many Of
them came across the ferry to get a closer
view. They didn't get within two blocks
Of the fire.
The police evidently remembered the
ducking that Chief Croker gave them at a
big fire OF the East Side q few weeks ago,
when the fire ines didn't suit him. No
fault could be found with their work yes