New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-16
Thirty Firemen Injured

About $50 homes and hotels were
destroyed, and about 200 bungalows.
The damage is estimated az S2,0OO.-
900.
One man is reported 10 have been
buried beneath a falling wall, but
the police have no report Of any
deaths in the fire. Or. Shulof, Of
Rockaway Beach Hospital, said he
saw the wall fall on the man az
Beach Sixtieth Street and the Boule-
ward, and that he must have been
killed
Thirty fremen and one patrolman
required medical attention, one OF
the fremen being sent 10 a hospital,
suffering from burns. Numerous
others received first aid treatment
from their comrades.
A company OF hfty-eight men Of the
Ninth Coast Artillery. under command
Of Captain McTeague. was rushed 20
Aryorne from the armory On West
Fourteenth Street and went on guard
duty 20 prevent looting IN the areas
bordering on the burned district which
we're thick with the makcshift camps
OF Ns:fugecs. The reserves from police
stations with a ten-milo radius also
were on duty. under Deputy Police
Commissioner John 4. Leacn.
Five Alarms Sounded
The fire started about 4;sj p. m. In
the Nautilus Hotel, on Beach fifty
ninth Street near the ocean 'front.'.
There was q brisk southwest wind and
il swept both ways on Beach l.ity-
ninth and Sixtieth streets, worked bseN
20 Beach Fifty-eighth street end then
swept on toward Beach Slx,y-arst and
Sixty-sccond streets.
There are five fre engines and three
hook and ladder companies at Rock
away Beach. One Of the engine com
panles was az FIRE 40 Far R0ckaway,
which earlier in the afternoon had
cost the life Of one fireman and severe
ly injured four others. Tho rest Pc
sponded promptly. but found Tie FIRE
already far beyond their control
BY $3.50 Ave alarms had been sent In.
Fire companies were shifting quarters
all through Queens, the nearest going
10 the FIRE and the others covering their
districts. Ten companies came from
Brooklyn and sovon from Manhattan.
Five hrcboats and four railroad tugs
equipped with monitor6 were dis
patched to the fire.
The FIRST o. the reinforcements 20
arrive found their task difficult and
dangerous. The Boulevard, tho only
paved street giving access % the seat
Of the FIRE, was oblaze cn both SIDES. .
Down the center Of the Inferno thun-
dercd the vanguard o. t.o Aremen.
They coupled up their hose and set 10
work hommed in on all sides by hre.
Wind Blows Embers
Even those further back. lighting the
fringes OF tie fire, were not out OF
danger. Most Of the buildings IN Ar
verne have no cellars. but instead
stand on stone piers. The wiud car.
ried embcrs under these buildings and
time and again three or four bungalows
ifiy feet or more behind the rear
guard Of the Ire fighters would sud
denly burst into fameg.
Engine Company 25o was cut OF In
this way and is members had 20 run
for their lives, abandoning their en-.
zinc 70 tIt AtAN'os ~ WaN 'tlfh"tf"f
A FIRE company from Lawrence, Queens,
lost 500 feet Of hose in the same way.
although Il managed 10 save It's engine.
The water pressure was inadequate
when the thirty-hyc engines got 70
work, and IL was necessary 20 couple
three engines on each line Of hose.
Nevertheless, At 9:i5 p. m, Acting
Chief Smoky Joe Martin was able 70
say: ave are OF all four sides Of the
Are and have IL under control
Explosion Is Heard
Among the buildings destroyed we're
the sumner home Of tae Israel Orphan
Asylum, all Of whose occupants es.
caned: the United States Coast Guard
station at Beach Fifty-eighth Street
aAd the boulevard; the Straiton Ave
nue. station VI the Long Island Rail
road; Goldstein's restaurant on the
Boulevard: the Elizabeth Hotel, Beach
Fifty-ninth Street and the Boulevard;
tho Colonial Hotel. Beach Sixtisth