The sun., 1908-01-11

When they started TO come down they
were penned in They were taken down
With scaling ladders by Company from
the outside Of the building.
The fire had been spreading with such
rapidity meantime that Commissioners
Bugher ordered Manager NJ. B. Barry Of
the Florence House to get every one out.
Two hundred guests went Aross the street
to the Clarendon Hotel foI shelter. The
sparks from the FIRE carried far and tho
police Of the precincts north OF Twenty
third street reported THAI the housetops
were crowded with bucket brigades fighting
little fires.
Daniel Frohman led one Of these brigades
~ the Players Club. The Columbia Uni
versity Club was turned out also. a. were
several other clubs in the neighborhoOd
OF GTamercy. Park. Along the side streets
Commissioner Bugher had the Pbooii6s get
out the residents from the private houses
At l04 and iOs East Eighteenth street. Mrs.
Leslie Carter-Payne's house, at III East
Eighteenth street. was entered by iiremen
TO protect il. Several boarding houses
kept by Catherine Belshen also were
emptied. The houses were wetted down.
The houses Of John Bigelow. at 2l East
Eighteenth street; y. =. BiaRden, at IL, and
Robert j. Collier. at 20 East Eighteenth
atreet. also were endangered by flying
sparks -
A little after 10 O'Clock the fire seemed
60 gain new headway. IL got away from
pidhy it spread over the remainder of the
building. and the tiremen gave up any at
tempt to save IL and confined themselves
70 doing their best for the surrounding
buildings.
Much effective work was done at this
stage in fighting the fire from the windows
of the American Lithograph Conpany's
building directly across the street.
large water reservoir in this building was
utilized.
Commissioner Lantry and Deputy Chief
Binns and their men worked frenZiedly to
get at their comrades in the building. Fire
men OCOnnor. Phillips and Lynch of En-
gine Company 72 were sent to the treacher-
Gus fifth floor. Nothing further was heard
Of them for an hour Chief Binns ordered
other men to go to their aid. Their COM
Tades fought hard to get to the fifth floor.
but nothing could be done. After they
were missing another half hour Chief Binns
said that he feared the men had been over
come or smothered. Firemen in the streets
who heard the chiefs remark went back
into the building and made another effort
to get to the men. but without avail.
Fireman Hutchison OF Fire Patrol was
taken TO the New York Hospital in a serious
condition suffering from sufocation.
.- Capt. Weldon and men from engine
floor as a rescue party. While the men
we're cropping their way through he smoke
and flames that seemed TO envelOp the
entire floor 1t began to give way under
them.
"The floors going! Rum" shouted We'll
don.
The men couldn't see, but they tried TO
escape as best they could. The floor sank
drst and gave way with crash. Almost
ny a miracle the men landed safely on
their feet on the fourth floor, but that, too,
was so shaky that Capt. Weldon ordered
the men at once to the street. Several Of
the men were hurt getting down and were
taken TO Bellevue Hospital.
Capt Bradin OF Engine Company p was
hurt while going to the rescue Of Weldon
ard his men and was taken to the Florence
House, where he was treated and then
sent to a hospital. Battalion Chief Lang
ford went into the building to investigate
the conditions for himself and was cut
about the head when the fifth floor gave
way.
Fire Patrols ? and 3. under command OF
Capt. Ward. were sent in to see what could
he done to get the men on the ifth floor
out Those outside the building simply
could not be held in check and were de-
raanding that they get chance 70 try to
get TO their missing comrades. Led by
Ward the men fought their way in and
managed to bring back with them several
men who had been fighting inside, in
Guiding Firemen COvaTck, Greene. johnson
and Fitzsimmons. who had been ON the
fifth floor with Hook and Ladder Z. and
who had previously been reported missing.
Capt. Gus Kelly had to- be taken TO a
hospital after he was rescued from the fifth
floor. Kelly had been with Fallon en- the
fifth floor when IL CaVed in. He ana FallOn
were drawing some tarpaulin over dental
goods when a piece Of machinery crashed
khrough the floor near where FallOn stood
and he disappeared. belly when brought
o'It fought TO get back and had TO be forciDly
o. restrained.
Truck y. which did medal work At the
Baltimore fire, suffered also, aud Lieut.
Potter was injured and removed to the
hospital after being struck on the head
in an elevator shaft by falling DEBRIS
Capt. McDermott slipped on the ice and
broke his leg. He was taken To the New
York Hospital. Al midnight the hose that
was working from Nineteenth street and
Fourth avenue burst. It. almost sent a
team Of fire horses through a cafe window,
and for an hour afterward there was no
stream playing from that point.
Before the fire was under control the
rushing Of q volume OF water from the
flooded sewers into the subway caused
= short circuit of the light current between
Fourteenth and Twenty-thrd streets. The
subway stations were thrown into darkness
The loss Of current in the third rail be-
nause Of the contact with the inpouring
water was 40 great that trains moving
through the affected zone could go only at
half speed.
The Eighteenth street station was closed
W traffic at midnight because Of the water
that poured down the stairs and onto the
platforms.
The occupants Of the Parker Building are
a. follows:
Ground floor Brunswick Bake Collen-
der Company, billiard tables. and p. Schnei-
der a Sons Company, upholsterers
Second hoor-Kny-Sc Company,
hospital supplies.
Third ioor-B. Saubiac a Son, embroid-
cries; Silver a Co., woollens.
Fourth foor-A. a NJ. Karagheusian rug
importers. IL was a member Of this firm
who was murdered in Union Square last
summer.
Fifth oor-Encyclopedia Britannica
Company, James Clarke 4 Co.; books.
Sixth hoor-Detmer Woolen Company
Seventh floor-Fred W. Evers, furniture
Eighth hoor-Fairchild d Co., gold pens;
Moses King, publisher; NJ. Goldberg 4 Co,
printers; John ? inn, printer; p. p. Caproni
4 Bros, art castN.
Ninth hoor-D. G.. Heath A Co.: school
books; the judge Publishing Company,
publishers Of Judge.
Tenth foor-VaUant.
Eleventh foor-Allan Stirling, civil en-
Eineer; Cushing Engraving Company, steel
engravers; Post h Co., printers; p. +.
Collier 4 Son. retail department.
The twelfth floor is occupied by a dozen
or more tenants.