New-York tribune., 1915-09-12
fireman's Skull Fractured
Several Hurt-Women
overcome by Smoke.
ONO FLEE HOMES;
s2OO,OOO REELS BURN
uoot Drops. Telling Firemen at
100000 Blaze-Mary Pick
,ords Costumes Burned.

=, .i.v for long time entirely de-
e,,ysd last night the five story build
-. 2lS 20 o. West Twenty-sixth
c,.., the TWO upper floors Of which
=. o,eup.ed by the studio and Offices
.,,h. Famous Players Film Company.
Wa, no one was burned. several fre-
rr ard spectators were severely in
- bv the bursting Of hose under
=, h;rb pressure. and several women
!, -. adjoining tenement houses were
,,.,,or,e by the smoke which filed the
laldirgs.
william Frederick. fireman Of Engine
c,r,srv el. was taken 20 Bellevue
E,.pi,al suffering from fractured
,ull II was said he would die. He
v, driven against the burning build
h,bys bursting hose. Miss Magdelle
Br,;os and Richard Young. who were
A. the edge Of the crowd OF thousands
which collected near the fire. were
Knocked down BY the force OF the water
,,or the hose and badly injured. They
v,-e taken 70 BellsSue. Several other
f-.nen and q score OF spectators were
reported to have been similarly in
jursd
Realizing the possibilities Of the FIRE,
Acting Chief C"Smoky Joe") Martin
turned in the fifth alarm. calling out
All the apparatus between Franklin and
Yi,y.nintb streets, on both the West
and East sides. Police Commissioner
Woods ordered Chief Inspector Schmitt-
berger to call out all the reserves from
N. stations below Fifty-ninth Street
20 control the crowds which jammed
tie nearby blocks.
1000 Driven TO Street.
. The "5.sp call for ell ambulances
.rsn the hospitals between Fifty-ninth
Stree, and Canal Street was sent out
BY Commissioner Woods. It was
ihought ct first that many fremen and
spectators had been injured and that
the FIRE probably would sweep the whole
blosk. on which there were several large
Italian tenement houses. Two thou
sand tenants were temporarily rem
dsrsd homeless
The loss 10 the film company was
heavy. AdOlph Zukor, president Of the
company. arrived ri the scene when
the FIRE was al its height. He esti-
mated the company's loss at 100000
and said the plant carried $4,000 in
sursnes Five films were in the course
o. construction, he said. featuring Mary
Piekford, Hazel Dawn and Pauline
Frederick. The films were kept in a
freproof vault. but the intense heat
Destroyed them.
:. Among the losers by the fire are
nary Pickford Marguerite Clark. Hazel
Pawn and John Barrymore. Costumes
belonging 70 the actors and actresses,
including FIX canaries, parrots and a
PERSIAN cat. were destroyed.
series Of explosions Of celluloid
injured several fremen. Chief Martin
tha thn;y hremen were in the rear Of
ihe third floor, when an explosion
caused the roof 10 fall in. Falling
esers knocked out many Of the men,
aho those who were not hurt set up a
dy Tor help. Firemen came 10 the res
cue
ihe bursting hose. in at least six in
sshees, added great menace 10 the
me Several Of the companies called
ee not carry lines sufficiently strong to
Nhsiand the i50pound pressure in
ue hlgh pressure zone. At the corner
kighth Avenue and Twenty-sixth
SHee' q bursting hose broke the ncavy
iia'e glass window Of saloon. 4
solsn men who stood drinking at the
ss;er.
Many Buildings Threatened.
tor time the FIRE gravely threatened
he adloning buildings, and embers
Vppea on the roofs and in yards
'erai blocks away. The ambulance
,Eeons from Bellevue declared that
sssl1ihg emoers dropped in the hos
80 yards and caused considerable
iV'~ment among the patients. A
it SIX story tenement house ad-
'0.nea The building on the west.
me tenants were ordered out Of all
S,. buildings IN the Twenty-sixth
t"sS' BLOCK, and across the street and
ue block in the rear, on West
tstth'y-teventh Street. Many OF the
,oThs became panic stricken, and the
Sa,s hSo 70 use their night sticks TO
mem from their homes.
ne hre WAS discovered al 6:65 D. m.
Isuolman Finnegsn, Of the West
H,niieth Street station. He turned
tsre' hfSt alarm, and as soon as Bat
,Vh Chief Mcclure arrived. he
,,.a ,nea IN a second alarm. The FIRE
,see on the first floor, but shot up
TSOgn the building rapidly.
ny IRE was checked. after hard
ssi5 !. nsht Commissioner Adamsor
h.., ~ was one Of the hottest anC
q 49, hres in the recent histO.y
me department.
So burned building was between
s...nth and Eighth Avenues ON tbe
,o,'h side Of the street The 6rs, Aoo,
Eoyks pied by the Corrugated Paper
tress une second by J. w. Schuer
lncenar 49,. :. s~itIs tNe third by the
epper psoent soet Braid Works. and the two
pohes VVls ass.s oy the hlm company. The
500 ooo o'''hAted the total loss at about
Vim, st 81 hsrenen injured were John De
tet bv sne Patrol 3, who was badly
tey,n hying glass; Paul Patti anc
PAW 10 ,S'ner hremen, Of Engine Com
innk vssereome By the fumes, anc
hots,,oS SSStoner, fifteen years old. Of 3.
by IA. ueet: was knocked senseles;
rssn,y s.er "tr from a bursting hose al
sss. a"th Street and Eighth Ave.
sas t,e.a sha several other spectator,
k<s1a eo ny the ambulance sur,