The sun., 1910-05-16
FTRBNBE HURT IN EXPLOSION
TWO CAPTAINS AND EIGHT MEN
OVERCOME BY blast.

| CapG Sonn haftnon WY uio-NapL
FaIlosen Also InlRea-WoFe Flahting
a Cellar FFs N BFOOtlyn WheR ths
Gas EApsodea- Daring nsseuss made.
Capt. John Hartman Of Fire Truck u,
Capt Hans Fallsson Of Engine l3I. Fire
man Austin Gibbons Of Engine I77 and
seven other hremen Of theas two COM
panies we're burned BY an explosion Of
gas In the basement Of . burning tsns.
msnt building AZ sOSl Fulton streSt, Eas,
New YOrk. late last night. Capt. Hart
man was injured 20 seriously that the
physicians Of g. MAry's Hospital. where
no was removed with the other two
named. said that be probably could not
live.
Capt. Hartman az the head Of HE men
Wa among the first to enter the cellar
below the shoe shop occupied by Michael
BohHngef in the burning building. The
cellar was eli ahAms when Capt. Fallesen
Of tho engine company and Hartman
with his men Of TRUCK - arrived
Fallesen had gone ahead through the
smoke 10 try 10 find the sAs meter and 10
turn oH the aow before The flames caused
the gas pipes 10 explode. Before he could
reach the meter the explosion came.
Falleson was thrown back unconscious
by the foroe Of tho explosion and Hartman
With HE men found themselves envelOPcd
in a shset Of flame Two or three Of the
firemen Who we're nearest the door man
aged 70 crawl up 10 the street and OAil for
help.
Immediately Capt, Henry Burtis oi
Engine iS1 and detail of his men wrapped
thsir coats about their iaCes Andlplunged
through the flames into the cellar. There
they found the two captains and siN of
the Aremen lying where the burst of
fame and OF gas had overtaken them.
A. fast as they could pass hack and forth
through the IRE Capt. Burtis and his
followers carried tho unconscious fire.
men 10 the street.
There the Rev. Father John Doughsrty
Of ~. johns College. who happened to
be passing az the time, administered To
the injured while the ambnsanoes from
~ Mary's Hospital were on TIE way.
When the ambulance surgeons came
they restored all Of the hremen vhO bad
been overcome by the blast except
Gibbons of Engine ~. Ne and the two
captains the surgeons found 20 be seri-
0tisly burned and 70 he suffering from the
Inhalation Of flames.
Deputy Fire Comfninioner Arthur J.
O'Keafs. who was entertaining some
fFiends at his home at n Fiske teTrane
Flasbush. cot word Of the are and Of uie
accidents that had beiallen the ArenNR
and be hurried 10 the soeae ot the blane
M his auto 70 inquire into the condition
of the men who we're hurt. The FIRE was
extlnguished after about 81 coo worth Of
damage had been done.
Capt. John " Hartman of Truck 78I
lives at Tip Hancock street. Brooklyn.
He entered the department June I. 1857
Deputy Chief Ially. on his way IN tho
fire. nan down tho automobile oi Josiah
Bridge 81 Newton. Mass. which was
emerging from Vanderbilt avenue into
Fulton street. Mr. Bridges chauffeur.
George Pinkall seeing the approaching
hre automobile. was able n turn his
machine and thus avoided the brunt of the
impact. The chiefs caF ripped the left
msidguard from Mr. Bridges machine
and knocked oh a headlight.
Mr. Bridge was thrown from his seat
10 the pavement Chief Ially stopped
and went hack to 80 how badly he was
hurt. Ne found him dazed hut able n
climb INTO the machine and start for Man
haitian. ne rsfuscd the help n an ambu-
lance surgeon from the Cumberland
street hospital. Chief Ilally couldn't 90
ahead until HE chauffeur replaced a tire
On oae II the front whecls of the car.
which was torn "a In the collision.
Mr.. Bridge IL a manufacturer. He n
% yeap Old. Hs gave his New York /
residence as the Hotel Algonquin on
Forty-fOurth str.ct.