Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01

IL YE1
designated as truck company No. 9 and
| engine company No. y.
There has also been installed at Lang
| don chemical engine company. known
| as chemical No. 8, which VIII proVlde
ample fire protection for the suburbs In
| that vicinity.
In addition to the apparatus for the
! companies above mentioned the depart
ment has also been strengthened BY the
| purchase Of one second size steam nre
! engine. two combination chemical engines
and hose wagons, one sixty-f1ve-foot
aerial hook and ladder truck and one sup
ply wagon.
Two Lives Lost In January.
While there were 81 alarms, bell and
local. during the month Of January, 1905
loss exceeded 81 900. But several January
fires caused the loss Of human life.
| The two most disastrous CONGREGATIONS
during the month occurred in the car
riage and wagon storerooms Of the
Prodigy Carriage Company. $40 and 524I
| Prospect avenue. and the art gallery OF
O. L. Veerhof 1917 F street. Fire losses
during the month aggregated $22,6s2.
| Nine false alarms were sounded.
| Michael B. Doyle. an elderly man. was
| sunocated in room In rear OF 80 MIS-
souri, avenue, January 10. -Four days later
Miss Mary D. Allston. seventy-three years
Of age, was fatally burned while en-
| deavoring to save her valuabes In her
room at 1875 9th street northwest. Hat
| tie Lee, colored, thirteen years OF age.
received fatal burns when her clothing
| ignited from fire in stove at 81 n
street northwest. Miss E. e. Vernon, LAO
A street northeast; J. D. Burke. colored'
| 14O6 Corcoran street, and Joseph Clark.
burned. Burke was rescued by private
II. ]. Smith of No. engine company.
One Big Fire in February.
During February the department re-
ceived 1O6 calls. only 3 OF them false.
The losses aggregated only 1924. Only
one fire caused more than 81 coo damage,
that at the plant Of the American Rose
| Company, in Biadensburg road.
Several casualties were reported during
! the month, but there was only one "a
! talty.- The victim was Harry Lowry.
| wenty-seven years OF age. who was
killed by jumping from the third floor OF
| house SIT r street to escape being burn
| ed to death. Elizabeth Jones, white, ana
Alice Quiesenberry and William Muschett.
colored, sustained painful burns while
trying to prevent fires from gaining head
Three members Of the fire department
sustained injuries while performing their
| duties. They were: Anthony Mosheuvai.
| captain of No. ] truck company; Z. L.
| Rollins, assistant driver of the company,
and Joseph Bentley, assistant driver OF
| 10 engine company. Capt. Mosheuval and
Rollins were injured by the collapse OF
| a porch at 63 Canal street. while Bentley
| was thrown from his apparatus and In
| tured, his collarbone having been frac-
tured.
March Unlucky for Firemen.
| Fire losses during March aggregated
$52533 There were log alarms. Of them
false sounded. There we're alarms sound
ed ten times for fires in grass and weeds
| in the county, a motorboat was burned. a
street car damaged and tho lumber yard
of Eisinger Bros, in Georgia avenue. was
| destroyed.
The fire in the lumber yard occurred
March 60 the loss amounting to $4O.25
| The following morning the junk shop OF
| Fred c. Butt g. Co.. 70 o street was dam
aged to the extent of S.. 00O Extra alarms
were sounded for both fires.
| The lumber yard fire was responsible
| for injuries to four members OF the de-
| partment. Capt Mosheuval, who sue
| tanned an injury the previous month. was
one victim. He fell from pile OF lumber
and fractured his right ankle.
| John Trodden, driver Of No. II engine.
was thrown from his apparatus and in
jured about his right shoulder. Potter
| Davis. captain Of No. IL engine company,
and Deputy Fire Marshal Seib also sus-
| tanned slight injuries. Persons who sus-
tanned burns while endeavoring to aX-
| tinguish fires were Mrs. l.. G. Foster.
Madrid apartment house; Mrs. Cornelia
Moore. colored, Douglass flats: Miss r. e.
Postal. 033 9Th street, and ]. II. F1orine,
| Romano apartment house.
| Thirteen April Fool Alarms.
Three incendiary fires were investigated
during April. The department responded
to thirteen false alarms during that pc
Rod. There were 1903 alarms sounded dur
| ing the month. The losses amounted to
S11,315, only one fire resulting In moro
| than 81, 900 damage.
| Mrs. Bridget Craven, sixty-fve years OF
| age, who lived at 2l6 7th street northeast,
was the only person to die from burns
during April. Firemen rescued number
of persons from Porter's Exchange Ho-
tel and st. George apartment house. Two
persons sustained minor burns. They
were Char es A. Boyd and w: H. Fry.
| J. E. Hooper, captain OF No. truck
company. sustained a fracture Of his right
| street southeast, April ID.
May Fire Losses Heavy.
Fire losses during May more than dou-
bled those OF tho preceding month"; IA.
though there were fewer casualties and
no deaths resulting from burns or in
juries sustained at fires.
| There were fifty fires during the month.
the damage aggregating $0,925. -Four
false alarms were sounded.
| The most serious connagration during
! the month occurred the morning OF May
II In the Droop building, 923 and 925
Pennsylvania avenue. 81. 500 damage re-
sulting. Damage amounting to $500
resulted from a fire In the Chapman sta
bles, 14th street northwest
Only two minor casualties were report
ed. Mrs. Annie Riggin. fifty years of
age. sustained slight burns while trying
| to extinguish a blaze In her home, 5l9
Az street while William Luckett, COL
ored, 1927 Massachusetts avenue. was
slightly burned and cut, sustaining his
cuts by jumping from his house.
June Record Light.
| The fire record OF June shows damage
amounting to only s. 12s. As many as
seventy-five alarms were sounded during
the month, six Of them false. Only one
fire occurred in which the damage ex-
ceeded $1,000.
The deaths Of Iemuel King and Rich
ard West, who were killed by the COL
lapse OF the Pickford apartment house.
10th and p streets, are carried on the
rolls Of the IRE department the depart
ment having rendered service at the time
the accident occurred. William Miller,
Roy Downs and George Crayton, work