Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-20
.TWOF|REMEN HURT
IN $4,000 BLAZE
in WRECK|NG PLANT
Flames Threaten Entire
Block in City's Factory
District.
CUT WAREHOUSE OF
KROUSE METAL co.
Thrilling Rcscucs of Fire
Fighters by Comrades Mark
Progress Of Fire.

TWO nremen were injured In n
spectacular two-alarm fire that swcp,
four-story brick building at ola
South Nineteenth Street last night
occupied as a warehouse By the
krousc Auto Wrccking and Metal
Company. Inc. 2000-20lS East Main
Street, and damaging property 10 the
( extent OF $4,000. For "a time the
flames threatened the entire block
and 1t was feared the fire would jurn;
across Nineteenth Street to the Lea
Lumber Company's box factory. re.
gardcd by fremen as one of The
greatest fire hazards in the factory
district.
An additional danger menaced fire.
men In this attempt to conGnc tho
fire to tho improviscd warehouse
when brick retaining wall. which
separates the structure from a con.
tlhuation of the building used as n
garage by the Sydnor Pump and Well
company. began to crumble from tho
heat OF tho raging furnace. Th.
flames threatened more than twcn,;
trucks. valued at 100000, and tho
tanks of the machines filled with
gasoline. sunken tank below tho
moor OF the garage held $50 gallons
of the fluid
tnrrics Limp Form of ComraJe.
While the fire was at it's heirb,
ana hremen from seven engine and
Two truck companies were fighting
the blaze. cry from the street drcw
the attention of the crowds 10 III,
nor.h wall or the building. a fire
man. carrying the limp figure of -
co" aae' was treadinE 1t. 4 score
OF hremen changed tho position OF a
.auoer anu the men were aided to the
street
J, +. Butler. OF Engine compapy
NO. = was rescued from the flame,
When overcome by smoke and beot
by X. f.. Sanders. a moment later
Jim Beirne. junior captSfn of Enp,ne
Com pany No. .. was caught bv M
avalanche Of falling glass. Tbcy
were carried in the arms of comr,do,
10 inc headquarters of their comn,ny
ana given nrst-aid treatment. Tho,
we're not seriously Injured.
"' "o hours the fire was fed hv m,
'"ih Siatings Of thousands OF b,itl.
'"tcS stored in tho building that w.r.
80 '"'ucr III The path .. the flames
'"e! !chped nigh above the burninr
/ structure ana outlined a ,hril,;ra
p'c'ure OF hrcmcn scaling ladders and
"sHtihG the blaze from surround;nr
Walls. Several thousand snect,,or.
thronged the streets below ana n,,
sehsers on an arriving train wcr,
attracted TO the observation nIatCorn
as IL passed the Chesapeake and Ont
.restie that skirts the scene of fhs
blaze. VI 'nt
Firemen Wear Masks.
several streams of water were A.
rected against the north wall or ,bs
orick warehouse. the property of Tho
american Tobacco Company. sou,h
Oh the krouse building. Firemcn
uSea lace masks while manning Tho
nose in the narrow alleywav tb,t
separates the two buildings.
AN effort was made To remove rho
trucks from the garage fronting Main
street in the carly stages of the fire
o"t hremen had driven the flames
rom the wall that had begun n
buckle and crumble, and CHIEF R,oo
assured the owners there was mn
iurther danger TO the building. VAL
uabia papers and other securities
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