The sun., 1907-08-27
POISON LAYS FIREMEN LOW
FIVE IN HOSPITAL AFTER BLAZE
~ DYE WAREHOUSE.
Many Others Affected Eases That Puzzle
the surgeon One Mans Biood de-
stro, ed The Fire itself soon Doused.
Though q scared the syrian Quarter.

the surgeon One Mans BioOd de-
/ stro, ed The Fire itself soon Douscd.
Though q scared the ~, rian Quarter.
The frcmen who answered two alarms
! for fire at % Washington street yesterday
morning and put the blaze out Of business
in Jig time didn't figure on after effects.
The fire was confined 10 the two upper floors
! Of Hagan Il Co. q warehouse Smoke rolled
out Of the building in great volume and
| spread over the financial district in such
| heavy pail that the sun didn't shine on Wall
street or lower Broadway for some time.
Deputy Chiefs Binns and Guerip got their
heads together and decided that the way TO
/ get the fire on the run was 10 drown it.
| With water towers dumping in torrents, en-
gines hurting gallons in rapid fire and pair
Of rirebosts gushing salt water up from the
river by the ton, the fire soon gave up the
ghost
The hremen went through the burning
upper floors as if they were going to a tea
/ party. but they staggered out shifting and
red eyed
Il don't know what it is" said e veteran
! smoke eater. but there is something In
that smoke that's hotter than I've ever
! tackled beforev
| 1t was some time after the fire had been
! practically extinguished and few frenen
were ordered to take hand lines and wet
! dom the floors that the fire fighters found
/ out Just what made the smoke 80 irritating.
] Stored on the two burning floors were guam
titles of Aniline salts, potash, lys and other
stuff used in dyeing
The hremen their eyes badly swollen and
! their noses itching and burning, wandered
/ away and tried to forget the fire. They
couldn't. Last night FIVE hal been sent to
! the hospital suffering from poison and
smoke.
While the smoke fumes gave the men
/ badly irritated throats and eyes. the cause
/ of worry for Department Surgeon Herman
, L. Refs and the hospital physicians is the
, dye poisoning. The men waded about
/ in pools of dyed wafer. The dye got in con-
/ tact with their flesh and into their blood.
so powerful was the stuff that il ate through
the stitching of the boots and into the feet
! of the men.
Fellows. an engineer with Engine Q in
/ Liberty street. is in a critical state. Little
hope is held out for his recovery. Fellows
| ha a several holes in his boots and the poison
| soaked into his feet. Like the others
! affected he vas seized late in the afternoon
with violent headaches and then nausea.
/ Surgeon Refs tapped Fellows and found
| that the blood in the lower art Of his body
had been practically destroyed. The blood
1 that flowed from his veins after the tapping
was brown.
All the other firemen taken to the hospital
are suffering from this poisoning. although
none is 30 badly affected as is Fellows.
John Mackenzie of Engine is suffering
! from smoke narcoes and from analine
/ poisoning as a result OF getting the stuff
on his hands. Like Fellows he didn't begin
TO feel the effects of the poisoning until
! along in the afternoon. Mackenzie only
! recently returned to duty after being laid
! up from a bad knockout he received from
! broken gas pipe in fire in the cellar OF
Fulton street paint shop not long ago
Clarence Connolly of Truck IS in Old Slip
! began TO have headaches and then to he
nausested about sundown last night. He
! was hurried to the Hudson street hospital.
| He was poisoned by the dysstuT. ia addition
10 narcosis brought on by inhaling the fumes
| from the stuff.
| When the others we're getting ready
| for supper 'ast night in the headquarters
! of Truck 10 in Fulton street Firemen
George Peterson and John Nichols found
they had no appetite. Instead they had
headaches and were very sick Surgeon
Refs came around and after look at them
had them carted of to the hospital. They
had got the poison on their feet aud hands
| and it had got into their blood. Another
fireman in the same company was suffering
in a similar manner He pleaded to he
eft at his station and was put To bed there.
The poisoning has caused a great stir
among the firemen. II is something new
! to them. Never before have the members
Of the Fire Department struck such a
strange happening. Chief Croker became
greatly interested in the cases when he
returned to town last night. Surgeon Refs
made full report on the cases 10 him.
! The fire caused lot Of excitement in the
| Syrian quarter. II looked like bad blaze
for time, and the Syrians. Greeks. Turks,
Armenians and even the few Irish that
live in that section began TO pack up house.
hold goods and make preparations for a
hurried moving. The police reserves from
several downtown precincts had all they
could do to keep these people from hurling
their household goods into the street.
Chief Binns said that $50 900 would be a
liberal estimate OF the damage
RICH MAN STARvES TO DEATH.