Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1896-12-02 | Page 1 | New York Blaze

NEW YORK BLAZE Two Firemen Injured and a Property Prop-erty Loss of 10000 < New York Dec 1TWo firemen were severely injured today at a fire in the fourstory brick building 747 Broadway and extending through to Mercer street which did 100000 damage The men are Captain Charles Kelly who had Captan broken two Wibs broken a probable backhand contusions of the body and Fireman John J Smedler whose body was bEidly bruised They were knocked down by a stream of water from a line of hose which tot loose from the firemen After a battle of an hour and a half the fire was got under control The third and fourth floors and roof of the Connett building were damaged E V Connett Company lost 30000 and Holzman Brothers place their loss at 24000 The building 747 Broadway was completely gutted The Roths childs loss is about 73000 The Good mans lose 25000 and the photographer 2000 The loss on the building owned by the Boston estate is over 50000 The losses given are estimated by the police but Fire Chief Bonner thought the total would be less than icq000 No cause was learned