The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-11
Six Engines Pumped Water
Into Ruins To-Day
OF II STORY BUILDING
None Of the Bodies Of the Supposed Vic
Tins Has Been Discovered Fifty
Firemen and Policemen
Hurt.

Nsw York, Jan. ll.Six engines We're
pumpsng water into the ruins OF last
nights s6,000,0O0 fire all the morning,
and the fire viii not be completely ex
tinguished until night Thousands Of
people who used the subway this morn
ing We're very near death from drowning
Not until later In the day was it diseay
cred that only six inches of concrete sep
arated thousands Of tons I'll water ia the
cellar OF the l2-story Parker building.
which burned, from the subway tube at
Fourth avenue and Eighteenth street
The officer who saw the water triclSIing
down the walls notified headquarters and
that part Of the subway was closed,
south Of Fourteenth street At.Il o'clock
the service was resumed. but no trains
ram between 18th and AID street Ii
was reported to the polire to-day that
a printer who was employed Oh the top
floor il missing The bodies OF the three
firenlen who are believed to have lost
their lives ia the FIRE have not been re-
covered. 0f the so odd injured police and
frelnen, all will recover.
The fire was one Of the most spectacu-
lar as well 81. disastrous III recent years.
From start to finish its course was
marked by hcar9ren1ing scenes, sensa
tioalal escapes and flashes Of heroisal,
The building was occupied chiefly by
publishing houses, though score of 9th.
er businesses had w0rkro0ms Or Offices
there. The losses to the tenants Is total.
The fire started on Chef fth floor iii
rxfl1a 49, ~
ers, and before d stream Of water had
fallen upon it, had shot up through
the elevator shafts and was setting all
Of The upper floors ahaze
On the fifth floor, where the watchman
discovered the fire, five girls employed by
THE Ditmore Wooden company were at
work AS the flames rose above them
the girls hurried down stairs to the
street
On the top floor Of the Suffolk Engrav
ing eompany's engraving establishment
six men were working. Their escape was
cut off and they fled 10 the roof. Flames
had surrounded them en three sides and
they were in imminent danger 81 death
when rescued BY means 0f 4 lifeline siiot
from q mortar gun, manned BY hook
and ladder company on the roof OF the
Florence hotel adjoining The hotel Is
seven stories in height. and from its roof |
a line was fired across the top III the /
burning bnilding, there 1t was seized by |
the inlperilled men and the free end WAS
made fast about chimney Down this /
rope hand over hand, the men dropped /
to safety. Meantime the Florence hotel
had been e1nptied III its zoo guests. ami I
nearby houses had heen vacated
Seven tiremen 0f engine 2, which FIRST
arrived, ran mp to the fifth after eighty |
five foot extension ladders had been |
raised to the windows Of that story 20 I
make possible their retreat. After
frnitless effort u stay the flames where I
they originated, these iifemen were driv /
en- to the windows only TO find that the /
top Of the ladders had been burned, cut
ting off their only retreat. Three Of the
seven men made desperate effort to
reach the roof. They were not seen
again and are supposed to be dead in
the ruins,
The other four were rescued by men
franl hook and ladder company no. I.
who at the risk of their own lives, ran
up scaling ladders and dragged the more
OF less burned nien from the windows.
These men had barely reached the
ground when the mass of cement which
FORMED 4 pillar Of the steel framework.
collapsed to the ground, carrying with it
everything below the seventh floor. john
Fallon, Tim Hutchinson and Sergeant
Kelley went down IN the wreekage Fal-d
Ion was not seen again. Hutchinson and
Kelley, fighting desperately against the
4fti
bury them alive, managed to reach the
street though frightfully injured
Hutchinson was only able to gasp that
lss partner, Fallon. was in the debris
and then he fell dying and was hurried
away.
More than twenty ireluen were work
ing within the walls on near enough to
be struck BY them when they went
down. Battalion Chief Shea OF the sixth
battalion was knocked senseiess and his
cheek was gashed Deputy Chief Lang
ford and Captains Weldon and Darvan
were also removed to the temporary hos
pital
The tenants Of the building included
The Brunswick Bal lke- -Collender company,
Scherer company, Encyclopaedia Britain
Mica company, Fairehild 4 company, ..
c. Heath and company. P. F. Collier &
Son. and Judge 4 Co
Disregarding the danger from fallen
debris and working in smoke that com
PEELED relief being extended every five
minutes a detail Of fFemen this after
noon, succeeded in finding the body Of
fireman Phillips. It was badly mangied.
The other bodies we're not recovered.