New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-21


front. Captain Regain had turned IN
three alarms, and the first OF the ar
irving companies was directed 10 thiS
building. while other squads OF nre-
men were detailed 10 the row OF four
story brick buildings along the west
side Of the avenue, all of which mad
caught FIRE.
sanatoriur Patients in Peril.
While patients we're being removed
from the burning south wing of DR..
Henry w. Lloyd's sanatorlum' al NO
{ ST Nicholas Place, Mrs. Harah Har-
ris the paralytic who attracted atten-
tion some months ago with a remark
able letter to the press. in which she
advocated the legal killing of persons
jncurably ILL., was resisting every eHort
If ber nurse TO remove her TO safety.
The windows were burned from their
frames and the flames had attacked the
woodwork inside the room before other
attendants arrived and dragged the
women away to safety.
alarm. and had gotten the frehghters
into action up the length of the blocK
when il became known that sixty men
were imprisoned in the tunnel AS
soon as the news reached the crowds,
hundreds broke through the Struggling
police lines and pressed forward low
ard the mouth Of the shaft,
Acting Captain Finn OF the west
152d street station sent in calls for re-
serves from the West 10th street
Lenox avenue. West 1920 street and 81
Nicholas avenue stations. The WASH
ington Heights. Knickerbocker ana
Harlem hospitals sent ambulances' ana
eight pulmotors arrived from the con
.olidated Gas Company and the United
Electric Company. \ field hospital was
laid out around the borders OF the
mark With DIR. Z. Benjamin Ramsdeli'
If the Fire Department, IN charge an"
eyervtbing was made ready for the ar
rival of the injured from the tunnei
below.
~, this time the structure about the
month of the shaft had fallen ana the
Nremen had drenched out the names
Selecting eight men. Chief kenion en-
tered the shaft and began the hazaro-
Gus descent to the tunnel In search OF
the imprisoned laborers. A series OF
ladders connected by platforms every
eftv feet. formed f1imsy staircase
down which the rescue party WORKED
it's way. At every platform the chlei
told off one man to stand guard ana
he made the last fifty feet to the tun-
mel floor alone.
Arriving at the bottom the chlef hau
gone but a few feet north when roar
and rumble in the shaft behind brought
him back on the run, and as ne
reached the opening an avalanche 0f
stones and earth descended. Shouts TO
the man on the first level above, which
were relayed 10 the top, assured him
that no one had been injured, and ne
retraced his way into the tunnel again.
Relief to Imprisoned Men.
At the very end Of the cut Chief
Kenlon came upon the sixty men, hud-
died together and frightened almost
speechless. None was hurt. but all
suffered more or less from the heat and
humidity. and were soaked by volumes
Of water which pored down the shaft
for more than an hour The chief as
sured the men that they were in no
danger, and after promising 70 return
for them. he worked back 10 the SHAFT
and came TO the surface with his crew.
About the smoudering ruins Of the
superstructure were lad out the hos
pital arrangements Of she police, fire
and volunteer corps. The scene sug-
gested more mine tragedy in the
PENNSYLVANIA coal fields than an ex-
cavation accident in the heart of the
city and the crowd acted its part in
the picture by continually breaking
through the lines and making for the
mouth of the shaft
AS night came on and torches were
lighted about the park the illusion was
heightened. Priests from several near
by churches took their places with the
hospital STATS 10 offer their assistance.
AT 100 o'clock the work of removing
the men from the tunnel commences:
The plan to hoist them to the surface
by means Of a donkey engine and
bo's'ns chair was abandoned, and fire
men and police were told off to pass
the rescued up the $50 feet Of vertical
ladders 10 the street. The exhausted
laborers were marshalled in the tun-
rel, led TO the shaft and sent up 10 the
surface. one by one. There they were
taken in hand by the police and hos
pital staff and escorted TO the home OF
Samuel Tillis. who had turned his
House, at No. III st. Nicholas avenue
into a temporary refectory. There the
men got food and stimulsnts The
total damage 70 homes BY fire was i'm
possible to estimate.
The Pittsburgh Construction Com.
pany, which had the No. 8 tunnel Sec
ton in charge, gave its loss as $751;
600. There we're several clashes bc-
tween the hospital STAFF and employe,
OF the company. one Of which led to a
complaint being lodged with Inspector
Titus, who was in complete charge Of
the police arrangements.
Thereafter the physicians were giver