New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-21
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t-.ct along tire Harlem River. u Ire
Bronx. where hremen have fore-old con-
HsErarion FOR years past
The fire starts az midnight. ard strong
wind from tire northeast fans II 10 fury.
BY daylight all the city has beer awakened
b. the noise Of the engines. as the whole
Fire Department II the city. engine after
engine. tears. hooring. northward 70 ne
terrible battle line. PREPARED 70 pump salt
water on the flames TIE whole northern
SKI is sky - Ere Il was only one empty
builfing az first. out the strong norrhesst
wind sent the FIRE sweeping down the
block In IN hour the flames were half =
mile below the starting point. out - reach
Of the engines. and gathering Roadway at
ar awful rate The dry roots take fire ike
finder Sparks and blazing sheets q root
irz 20 hving down the wind and drop on
the houses far ahead
Now. ~ dsyoreak. he flames take 2
block ~ a gulp. licking up fugitives be
fore they can run 70 safety. burning not :
few IN their beds We can hear their
shrieks. cutting through the black smoke
cloud that has enTrspped everything
Through riffs in TIE smoke ~ see the
fire engines In line along the bulkhsads
The reservoirs are empty. they must get
their water from the river and they have
not power enough 70 throw u far.
Csn they stop the flames at the Harlem
All through the northern part Of Msrhat-
tan policemen. milltismen and soldiers
from the regiments that have been rushed
ashore from Governors Island and the
y
on the water from the street mains. COM
polling the half crazed tenants TO WEI
down their bedding and spread It on the
roots
The bridges n the Harlem are crowded
with thrcns. half clad men. women and
children. sick. exhausted. a whole popula
tion pouring into endangered Manhattan.
Tho IRE has cut % their escape % The east
The awful heat from the burning city
makes the roofs steam a mile away. Burn
ing brands rain down IN showers. Then
thA water slackens and stops The Man
haitian reservoirs too. have heen emptied
by the sudden drain. BY noon the FIRE has
broken out In half dozen places this side
% the Harlem. The wind has risen 10
gale The FIRE rolls southwark. spreading
east and west as IL goes a mighty. chsrg-
ing breaker that browns and dissolves
blocks Of buildings in It's seething red
spume There IL nothing more 70 Dc done
but 70 retreat from the fire. into the mar
rowing district defended by the high press
IRE mains downtown
panic seizes upon the city The streets
are filed with household goods, thrown out
recklessly by people who have gone tenn
porarily mad Thieves are everywhere
They lie dead in tn. streets. where they
have been shot down by soldiers and cit
izens. and their blood spatters their booty
still the piles Of housevsre grow. me
people cannot understand that. II the IRE
ccnes az all. 1, has near two million men
and women trapped between two arms or
the sea II the bridges and ferries can get
their bodies OF the island that Will he the
greatest salvage the world has ever seen
on the city government rests the re-
sponsihility Of almost two million lives de-
spite the exodus To set that human mass
in motion is a superhuman task. News
PAPERS print single broadside sheet warn
ing the people to fly for their lives. in
stantly They are fung broadcast from
speeding automobiles in every street in
the city. The soldiers have Communicated
all automobiles.
By nightfall the people are fairly in mo-
tion. The avenues are black with people
feelng before the IRE. There Is no franc