Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-04-24 | Page 15 | Three Firemen Killed in Six-Story Fire

THREE FIREMEN KILLED IN SIX-STORY FIRE 'H NEWARK, N. J., April 23. Three lil firemen were killed and fifteen others r Injured today at a flro ln a six-story t brick building In Mechanic street, occvu '1 pled by Wiener & Co., saddlery hartl- 11 ware manufacturers. E&l While the fire was at its height a score of firemen were on the roof of tho 1 building of the Empire Gear and Top company, a one-story brick structure . -H adjoining the Wiener building. An ex.- " ' plosion occurred in the Wiener building : -. which blew out the wall of that building .M and three stories of the side wall of the '1 Wiener structure crnshed down on tho ' firemen. The building on the roof of which they were stadlng wns smashed like ah egg shell and the men were burled tin'- ; dev a huge mass of brick and Umber. Three of the firemen were In a dying H condition when taken out. Two died oh the way to the hospital and tho third