The evening world., 1911-05-24
10000 Persons, Awakened by
Fumes, Crowd Housetops
and High Bluffs.
-
POLICE RESERVES OUT.
Many of the Patients in st.
,Luke's Hospital Suffer
From the Smoke.

lOIIl ulC olIlOhC.
Ross's lumber yard in West On
and Fifteenth street be
.ween Manhattan and Eighth avenues
for two hours after l.3'
this morning. There is n,
on tap in the dictionaries
. mako anybody who did not e |
sneW what the Are was really like
ut here are q few Of the thing
v1tch happened:
Oasol1ns sanks IN the lumber yard
0Daoasa ana the flames from them
49, higher than the elevated
Ooosssa o. Tie spidsr-uks trsstls
. ous Hundred and sixtssnth
1Enss tAar 1900 dwsiisrs In
easement houses which look QUE
- ne lumber gard were actually
= danger and wsrs waksnsd ana
sAassA olt into the street By one
Ssas polio man, who tainted from
skhsustlou after running up ana
aewn twenty %nvs-story nishts Of
seaars, beating ON doors With his
st6ek and yelling "1irsi" n "ost
sUsi"
u4sa thousand more people were
yvaksnsA by the thick, choking
smoke from the burning pine ium-
~ ana got On roofs and firs-ss-
,sapss and the bluRs Of Morning
$40 Park to find out whether TO-
world had come to An end-and
most Of them, IN the belief Of the
-pplics reserves from three stations.
helisved that IL had-
FIFTY seriously III patients In -
Enks'S Hospital, half . mile away,
haA 70 be moved from their beAs
n strstchers ana taken TO places
vAsSe the smoke would not
6essaS1s ths little breath that was
Seft In them.
The water supply for Harlem
vss 30 far ussd mp In oonqusrtnS
ths flames that people who insist
"a on their morning bath In the
Manhattan valley section had to 70
down to the basement and take
water upstairs In pals.
Not One Person Hun.
All these in addition TO the ordinar
excitement which accompanies thrs
alaFms Of fire In this big city. with n
hosns Of the automobile frs engines 81
battalion and deputy chiefs wager
snorting and footing. screaming whist,
OF the old-fashioned engines. tho throl
bling OF pumps and the patter OF heav
police feet coming from everywhe,
within q mile.
And not a human being was hu,
nous to require looking over by a
ambulance surgeon.
Even the lives Of four horses In I,
lumber yard were saved.
william J. D%errickson. sleeping In h
apartment at No. 3i2 West One Hu,
dre1 and Sixteenth street. was avail
eaeA BY the pungsnt sting OF smoke
hb nostrils at LN o'clock. lie got u
an shifted around his own place. puils
q trousers and shoes and went fro
ne top to the bottom OF the bull,
Ing. and found no nre. Almost co
vnced ut he AaH dreamed Il
smell. he ran up his window shade
take . look at the night, and tn,
listed for the street. He had seen
forty-foot- wide bonfire playing up fro
The middle Of the Ross lumber var
II must have been smoldering there T.
hours
life-Savlng Marathon.
~ the hTe-alarm box on the corn
Derricksou a into Policeman charl
Haight Of the West One Hundred al
Twenty-hfth street station. who W,
ringing the alarm.
You stay hsre and tell the frem
whore It H." said Haight. Il got
Set around and see II there is anybo
to wake up"
Right there began tho iife saw
Marathon OF Haight's which would ha
put his nane In schoolbcoks II ne n
done It in the good old days Of Athel
The people who stood around the sire,
and gabbled At M nothe until "a
loht tod each other that there mt
have been al least twenty policemen
the neighborhood.
mere we're not. II was all Hais
And whom he came to. being famed
the night clerk and The han boy OF I
Glen Court Hotel. At Eighth avenue a
Ons Hundred and Sixteenth street. alo
about $50 o'clock. he was worrying
fear he might have missed a tiathol
doorway IN passing.
Gasoline Sprayed Over Yard.
About half q minute after Battal
Chief Clark whirled up TO the ala
box and directed by Derrlckson whir
away again around the corner TO
lumber yard. He was back again sta
ing a second alarm On his third V
% che box. some nfteen minutes la
I've met Acting Chief Kenlon. who
turning In . third alarm. Kenlon
sesp Che sky ~scorchtng burst OF
saDolins names. and had not awaited
70 around to One Hundred and
te<nth stree 10 "a final informatlt
ne gasoline sprayed all over
yard. Everything which had not eau
apnr. before was In a blaze In a IA
protty soon windows In the apartme
wtloh backed IN the lumber place
- 70 crack and DOL there was
svssy M Of them Trsmsn v