Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-04-26
SIX FIRES IN new YORK.
TWELVE FIREMEN INJURED AND
TWO ENGINES WRECKED IN
FIVE HOU wORK.
FOUR ITALIANS DEAD.
Blaze in Stable Kills $50 Horses and
Thrilling Rescue of People Marks
Confagration.

NEW YORK, April 23.-Four men
burned to death, $50 horses killed, twelve
fremen injured, two of them seriously,
two engines wrecked, several thrilling
rescues, and property loss of 100000
that is the story of the fire department
for the five hours following last midnight.
Six different fires on the upper east
side, in Broadway on the middle east side
and big stable fire at Christopher and
Barrow streets, kept the tiremen con-
stantly at work.
Four Dead Are Italians.
The dead are four Italians found in
the stable. The fire was in the Despatch
stables, in the block between Christie
pher, Barrow, West and Washington
streets. The tiremen saved the big add
joining tenements and the Palace and
Knickerbocker hotels. Two hundred and
fifty horses persisted. The money loss IN
the stable fire is placed at 100000.
Another serious fire started in the
Madison laundry in East Seventy-third
street. Here two fire engines were
wrecked. The drivers were injured. The
laundry loss is $4,000.
Firemen Blown Downstairs.
1t was in a high building in Wooster
street that most of the tiremen were in
jured. Fire had been discovered on the
top floor and the tiremen had dragged
their hose up the stairs to fight a stub
born blaze in the factory of the r. Il.
Erome Manufacturing company. The
full company had reached the scene when
came the back draught and the flames
and choking smoke swept over them. A
dozen of the men were blown down Il
flight of stairs. Several of them were Sc
verely burned and bruised.
The other fires were in widely sepa
rated sections of the city.
$1500O0 Loss in Chicago.
CHICAGO, H., April 23.--A fire
which generated smoke enough to fill the
corridor and rooms in nearly all the
buildings in the neighborhood of Van
Buren, street and Wabash avenue, and
which caused excitement in the Audi
forum hotel the Fine Arts building, and
the Hotel Rensu, partly destroyed the
w. A. Giles building at 100000 Wabash
avenue Monday afternoon. Several fire
men were injured and surface car traffic
was stopped for two hours. The loss was
estimated at $150,000.
Men and women on all five floors
rushed for stairways and elevators.
Many girls finding the Railways filled
with thick smoke, ran out on the fire
escapes from the floor occupied by ia
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flowers.
They were called back and taken down
in the elevator by Horace Manley, the
elevator man. who himself was overcome
with smoke after taking sixty girls out
Fire early today destroyed the five
story building at 71-S5 Ann street, oc-
cupied by the Bunge Pickle and Yeast
company. John Evosta, a Waterman,
was probably fatally injured by jumping
from the burning building. The loss was
$4,000.
Big Seattle Lumber Mill Burns.
SEATTLE, Wash, April 23.-F'ire de-
stroyed the Port Blakeley mill company's
lumber mill at Port Blakeley, the larg-
est establishment on the coast and one
of the largest in the world, entailing
loss of 100000. OF this 20 per cent.
is covered by insurance and the manage
ment announces it will build at once.
The 300 employees were compelled to flee
for their lives.