The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-02-16

DAMAGE: At
S1OO,O()O
Falling Fireman Caught by
Heroic Buddy; Life
Saved

Broadwsy's most disastrous are in
recent years last night destroyed
business and Office building with a
property scss Of approximately sfoo.-
600 and caused the severe injury Of
Truckman Reg1nal Brinkunan Of No.
IRE department
Brinkman's life was saved .hrourh
tire agility OF lieut. Farley who caught
him as he was falling from ths TOP 0.
a ladder on a wall Of the burning
building. Brinkman had been knocked
unconscious when struck By the nozzle
OF q nro hose he was senseless for
over an hour.
BUILDING CUrrrED
only the walls ce the building 81
100 Broadway are standing soday
Although four departments responded
Immediately to the Al -4z call sent out
at 4:1o yesterday afternoon and four
teen streams OF water poured into the
blaze for ssvera! hours tna structure
could noe Do saved.
The origin Of the frs was n tho
basement under a t1rniturs store and
when IL was disco vered 81 had galno1
such headway that tenants had bsrsAa
tirna to escape
TRAFFIC. TIED Up
Street car uafr1c On South Broadway
was at standsttll Cor three hours -
the vicinity Of the IRE for several
blocks pedestrians were blinded By
impenatrabIe smoke. Thousands cf
people braved the cold and smoke in
thing OF the fra
The building was the properly or
Leo E Deutsch and the ground fiour
was occupied by the S. 7. kros Drug
Co, the Mike Chimples Restaurant ana
ehe Seventeenth Avenue furniture Go.
The basement where the FIRE stareed
was used by the furniture store for
repair and vanishing Of furniture
The tenants on the second floor wera
Drs. Alex NJ Kan and :. p. Stawicki
and che law firms OF Menczynshi s
McDanieIs and Paul Glaser and Sehcr-
Law LIBRARIES BURNED.
Thsdders Menczynskt Of MencsynslSi
& McDaniels fs q leader among tbs
Poles OF the city end was the unsuo~
eessful candidate for city Judge in tho
last election. Paul Glsssr is the rad
ical header who featured strongly fr
the steel strike when he announced
plans for soviet government in GARY.
II is said that bis library which was
destroyed In she Ere contsined col
lection OF books on sociology. political
economy and Soviet Russia valued 81
several thousand dollars
Besides the law libraries ara SCR
stca1 instruments destroyed By the IRE
~ fxNo t14s
tenants Of the second aoor add sreatiy
to the aggregate loss
CUSTOMERS ETIE
3. r. Kros, proprietor Of the crys
store, was preparing a prescription ger
a customer when the alarm OF IRE was
sounded. Sfrnritar eousfy the partition
at the back as the store burst Into
flames. Kr-os kicked the door OF th@
safe shut ana ran from the puiidfrs
wrsn the customer.
The attorneys and physicians On ere
second foor we're driven FROM the
building by chs hre without hSCfrs
time q, gather UP their valuable ce-s''-
r,ents. Only papers kept in their safes
wers saved.
Several customers IN tne restaurant
left the lunch counter, when smoke
rlled the room.
Fire Chief Grant satd today thHt ths
rapidly with which the fra spresd
throu ghout the building was rsnark-
able He declared IL must have ben
smouidering between the doors ard tha
walls for ar hour st least. The build
ing did noe have a FIRE wan. The IRE
men wers forced to fight she FIRE o.
the blind side OF the building wher7
there were no windows.
The first floor collapsed shortly after
the FIRE departments arrived.
The loss Is partially covered By IT.
euraace. The stock and fixtures Of tne
drug store were valued az $4,000.
Police late today were still investa-
eating witnesses and others who might
know something about the origin of
the fre. An earnest effort 70 TX re-
sponsinIlity is being made.