The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-01-11
3 F|REMEN BURIED
I IN s5,000,0 900
BLAZE: IN N. Y.
PARKER BUILDING, FouRTH-AvE.
skYScRAPER, is WRECKED BY
ELAMEs-6o INJURED. SOME
SERIOUSLY.

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-Three fire.
men are buried In the history Parker
building. on Fourth-ave, between East
Eighteenth and Nineteenth-sts., and II
viii be late today before their COM
rades will be able TO make an attempt
TO rescue their bodies. Fifty firemen
were injured. some seriously. while
lighting the flames. and $5,000,000
damage was done.
The Dead:
JOHN FALLoN.
The Missing.
THOMAS PHILLIPS, Engine Co.
No. 70.
GEORGE oCoMNoR, Engine Co.
No. ~.
As the heavy iron Orders threaten
ed to warp and send the walls crash
ing to the street, Acting Fire Chief
Binns ordered the trains in the sub
way discontinued from 2:25 until 4:25
this morning.
The heavy fre-proof material of
which the floors we're built, weakened
by heat, cracked and crashed from the
upper stories TO the cellar, spreading
the fire through the entire building.
Ii Is under these tons of debris that
the firemen expect TO find their buried
comrades
Choice Art Collection Goes.
On the tenth floor of the building
was stored one OF the costliest art
In "a nf
late Henry Walters, president of the
Atlantic Seaboard line.
Mr.. Walters, a Baltimore man, paid
s256;6tt duty to bring to the United
States statuary, paintings and bric-a-
brac valued at about 100000 This
priceless collection seems TO have
been totally destroyed.
Another great art loss was that sus-
tanned by the firm Of A. & NJ. Krag-
hausain, dealers In costly oriental
rugs. Their stock was the largest
OF its kind in the world. being valued
at a million dollars.
Fully 1000 persons were put out Of
employment as a result OF the fire.
Four Men Trapped on Roof
On the roof OF the big building.
which, with the Florence hotel, occu-
pies the entire side of the street, four
men were trapped. They were Frank
Wyant. Joseph Brooks. John Graham,
George Marshall.
They waved their arms at times
and at other times placed their hands
against their eyes to keep the smoke
from binding them. Far below, in
the streets, where great crowds had
gathered, the men were seen, while
every minute the flames which mad
swept from the fifth floor upward
neared them.
Commissioner Lantrey whirled
through the police lines just at this
time and after hurried consultation
with the battalion chiefs. squad OF
men was sent to the roof OF the hotel,
which is six stories high and stands
only IL feet from what once was
splendid office and factory building.
Planting their cannon behind cop
ing, they fred lien over the build
ing. The half-stifed men tied the end
TO a chimney and the firemen took
care Of the other end.
Descend on Life Line.
Hand over hand, in the glare OF the
fire and going painfully through the
gushes Of smoke that rushed upon
them when the wind shifted. the men
descended on the life line.
AS they reached within foot OF
the coping Of the hotel firemen grasp
ed them and they were hurried below
for medical attention. "A block away
the thrilling spectacle could be wit
messed, SO intense was the light cast
by the fire, which Redeemed the sky
for more than a mile.
George Noyes, the Waterman, dis
covered the fire at p. m. on the
fifth floor In the publishing establish
ment OF Hooper q Jackson. Seeing
: he could not extinguish the blaze
alone. he tried the fire alarm. He
says 1t failed to work. He then rush
ed to the street and gave the warning.
The structure was one OF the most
commodious ONCE buildings In New
York. A large number of publishing
concerns, including Golfers and the
Judge publishing companies had quar-