The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-04

Nne ttFd OF engines NfiftllHk ANaEhHs
the giradelIke water towers driving
rainhows through the gray haze and the
terrific streams that smashed into the red
mess and broke down brick walls 10y their
impaCt Hundred, ~ people were dimly
outlined on tho roofs Of the tall build
ings Boats paused IN the North River
for ghmps" uf the fight and over in
Jersey thousands crowded To the water
front
The. wind blew steadily from the south
east. a ht vt good fortune for the fire.
men. since II driftsd the flames away
from the ferries and the piers II gave
Croker and his men a chance, hut. as
thu chief sad. II Was n good ret that
without the high pressure mains there
would have been some black holes in
the row of piers The flames made
clean job of Moore Bros. lumber
yards consuming a brick office building
NJ the corner. eating up row NJ sheds
and then feeding RAPIDLY m 2Wo,"0
feet If hard wood.
Prom the lumber yard the fire swept
across twenty fourth street and attacked
the dIugy P"nu-y wanna Hotel. thrr"
story brick building. and an odd timer IN
the district Their" Wsrsn Z many Ispplc
in IN. hotel II was too early. but the
police believed that som" might b" asleep.
Patruluvu Dan Ph"lan and Frank silver
showed through th, smoke. took nGt a
man and a woman from IN" second hnnr,
and went hack and found o. the thIrd huur
Helen laWZon - years odd 81" was
frightened helpless and law IN the bed
screaming hy- lerically. Ph"lln aud
Silver had hard luh g"tlng her uut.
When they turned h"r over - Amhu-
lane, Sur gcon kakrr ui Bellevue" Hospital
they w"r" ~ great pain nom burns IN
their hands and arm- Raker sent them
10 the New York Hospital. whore they were
treated. Later they went home
After charming tho iunards of N" Penn
sylNania the nr' >wIt, he'd across / ~ "ufh
avenue toward the river and found good
eating ~ lark A " Ilkiur'- Ilant The
concern was AN institution ~ IA" neigh
borhood II had turned out klndlinE woud
and small rIzed timber tor many wears.
In fifteen minutes the flames had ,"IZet
all Il the stock and nothing wa lett
Of the factory save the tall brick smuk"
stack
I he tr, moved north on the west sd"
OF Eleventh avenue, destroyed "A black
smith Snop and several stables and sheds
and WAS stopped only az tn" corner Of
Eleventh avenue and Twenty nth street
All this time II had b,"n sweeping east
ward along both sides Of Iw"utv-tourth
street and ~" south side 81 Twenty NTH
street The biggest building IN twenty
nth street was the four story plant o. the
Atlas Metal B-dstead COMPANY. which
manufactured brass beds exclusively.
Irokcr saw that u was impossih,y to
save the factory and its large amount II
stock 80 he worked hard 10 keep IN"
flames from jumping 20 Twenty fifth
street and beading north He succeeded
On the south sid" of Twenty fourth street
in the sam" block the Dart Coal Iom
pany building. thr"' story brick
structure was destroyed. and on the
north side the five story brick building
occupied hV the New York Metal Ceiling
Company was scurch"d The loss here
was about t,n.bH
Gradually Croker hemmed IN the flame
and restricted their field He saved m"
United States Express Company'- build
ing. IN which were stacks Of pack ages the
New York Metal Ceiling Company plant.
the slN story factory Of tho Standard On
COMPANY the NRnausker garag" and
the hotels. faCtori"S and dw"uIng houses
on the. north side of Twsnty-thIrd StTu-f
While the hardest tghung was on
there was a crowd IA front uf Martin
O'Dowd's Hotel ~ the southeast corner
Of Eleventh avenue ami Iw"u'N-thtrd
street company II hr"m"n w"r'
wrestling with high pressure hoe
which was slipping and twisting from
the trirod on which they were lahorIng
TO SECURE n Finally III" pressure tor" ~
from their hands IL ran wild. druv"
great =. ream ut water into the crowd a.
ODovd's and knocked down a bunch 81
spectators before the iirefn"n could 81
down on Il
Five persons were hurt here William
Ply. a IleFr, tl eighteenth street anu
Eighth avenue. his wlf" and his four
wear old daughter. Helen; Anna NCKenna
OF 500 West Tw sntIeth street and William
Cruise 81 Richmond HI. l. An aTnhu-
lance surgeon. Dr Baker 1T BelleVu.
who was all on or the place with his grIp-
sacs and lint rolls treated The hv" ~
ODowdS saloon and bundled them IN
home
John Ward one Of the crew 81 the fire.
boat New Yorker. was hurt in a similar
manner Ward wa adjusting high
pressure hose on It's tripod when the
python wrenched ont ~ his grip. hitting
him a terrific blow IN the stomach and
laid him ont cold
DR. Baker found that he was suffering
from rupture and sent him 10 B"llevu"
Hospital.
For more than two hours 'hora was
grave danger 81 'roub,e on the piers
from falling sparks The blazing lumber
threw NJ biR rockets that dropped red
hot on the docks. Tn" iireb ais and
the laorawannH Railroad four hig
hrefightin. tugs looked ont for this very
peTil. The Fulton. Cor ing. Nash nR
ton and Bath ~ IN" Ial,kawanua fleet
under: f,re Oh ~ William McGrath Of the.
Lackawanua's service, Pltrolled IN"
river sid"
They -potted a blaze on the Erie Rail
roads float az Twenty-eigh'h street
There was about S2,U dainag" dom" h"fpT"
, they put out the float ire. Half a dozen
times streams 81 water from the I-aCka-
wanna tugs or IN" f''Ir hr"hoatS w.r.
thrown against IA" ferry houses or On
the ferry roofs Ia wash ont fnllng"mbers
Fire CormlssIoneT Waldo took a look ~
. the sfre',oats and roamsd with Croker
all over th. battl.U.ld
At : o'clock IN" cur"f mad" -Ir" That
. he had confined IN" destruction ~ the
. area describad. but ~" kept all his men
7 at work wettIng down and chopping
out treacherJus partitions until after
midnight Police Inspector NCClusky
thought IL necessary 10 hold there until
midnight three captains and 100 police
I men reserves from ak station houses
The Twenty-third street crosStown
line was az a standstill for three hours
A. O'Clock there were forty-ive cars
J chockablock on the westbDund track
Tventy-eiX 81 the~a cars touched each
other from Ninth 20 Tenth avenues