The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-18
Big BLAZE IN JERSEY CITY
4 BLOCk BURNED OVER avn
ONE NtN kIIIED.
eau for Help Sen, to Ths Cny tue PeiIs''
Quarter Threaieoed and In . PanIr
Thai Vas Hard 10 QueIi-The Loss
Believed 20 Reach About - .OOO. OOO.

Thai Vas Hard 10 Queii-The Loss
Believed 20 Reach Aboai - .OOO. OOO.
Jersey city was so hard hit Nv fire last
night that she had tn call Oh New York
for help. Before the hs fighters 81
Manhattan and the meu of the Jersey
city department whipp~d the flames
there was nothing left Of a solid block of
factory buildings bat sizzling ashes. and
black holes in adjoining str'-.is marked
the r,Iin outside the wasted block
The fire cost the life ~ man and
81 NV. Oo Only the most dssIerat. fight
ing held II from sweeping over the Polack
quarter. where the old tenements w-r-
crammed with families
The block destroyed lay in IA" centre
OF Jersey City'r industrial district. II
Was bounded hy Washington. Morgan.
Warren and S'sul..n streets q square
which hes AT "A considerable distanc"
from the river front. hat within EASY DIS
'snce ~ the Pennsylvania Railroad sta
ton Within he block were the cork
manufacturing plant of the lr'-lo~
Fullee Company. the lnd~pendent Baking
Powder CompAny's factory. the Am--
Rolling Mills. the Am-s coop-rake faU-
tory and few small buildings connected
With the big sLOps Just outside ~ the
BLOCK across Morgan street was the Dig
plan ~ the Regal Sack Company The
hr- leAped from the block and burned II
10 the ground
Several Of Jersey City's bigE-st factories
hal the Tarrow.si kind of a shave The
Bul- Bros Wholesale groo-rv plant "a
the north side u Morgan street smok-
from the fierce heat OF the buru ing block
but the plArt's o~n tirs oJmpApy saved II
Milhors of feet Of humber lay IN the path
way % ,b. hire in the vanderh--k IAImhrr
Compapy'z yards on the -AH 81" az
Stsuben street
On IN. vest side of Warren street he
tween Morgan aud St.ubsn - an unbroksn
roe of tea.ment@ ~her- Polack laborers
and their families hubble The clamor
and the sight Of IN. flames work ing 'o~
ard their homes drove them INTO
pane They surged into the street drag
ging their belongings after them and
screaming that they were gong 10 he
kiIl>d Their belongings chItiered the
streets and embarrassed the firemen
The police could do nothing with them
without clubbing FINALLY priests from
~ Anthony's church appeared among
them and went about soothing the women
and .coldiDE the men The s'ampsde
vas stopped aud the people Sere qIieted
The priests persuaded them TO wait Out
city beside their furniture until the danger
was over
III. troubI. burst -uIdeuly at about
n EN.ssI
Tr,IsIDw FuIl-e cork plant the hr- Jumped
with anna ling raprdTy until u had ''n
vrlop~d the whole buikiinE The cork
burned rapidly and 'h- wind. strong from
IN. northeast whirl-l fiery PARTICLES
and dropped them "a - The roofs ~ the
nea rby factories The J.r--y hr-m-n
saw speedily what fight Vas "a front
81 them Commissioner M"rri- "al-l
out the whole force aud a-kei every bii
ot AID the pol,c- department could FUR
n,.h II was an unlucky time 10 call for
he I-,Irc- They were having their
annual ucnic At the Gr-.nv,lIe S.'hu-'y.n
PARK. ~h-r. hundreds Of them we've hav-
,nH their beer and dance with no thought
% the trouble at hune For AN boar
aud a half until the picn,cker- could get
on the Job the streets we're badly patroil@i
aud the hr-m-n handicapped bv the
crowd. that pu-hSd ia from every DIS
trio, ~ the city
The south wall 81 the cork factory
went down With a crash ~ $50 =. ".
and a fe~ minutes later the other walls
collapsed Capt Walter Brehm Of Engine
Jsr.ay CIV. Was pinns-I nv a falling
bean H.. right leg was fractured
There were five men hurt all told before
IN. fire was conquered After capt
pr.hm. Fireman Ia. w-l-hs 10 Jury was
mos, serious His right leg was broken
hy a falling wall
With the falling ~ IN. cork works
Commissioner Morris realized the need
OF outside help He cail-I Ne~ York
Fir. H.adauart-rs. which sent hun Rat
talon Chief Norton and fftv men Of
En- sines u. NJ. and Tn. New YORK
ershoa,. couldnt IL. used tn. trouble
N.- -, -, a.. - r.,
was 70" iar oacN ''o,n me ,Ne, """,
From the corn works IN" nre Ieaped 70
the Independent Baking Company
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