| Show Four Firemen Fir rn Rescued as as' Building Falls NEW YORK Jan 1 W UP A Fire Firemen men men f working in the glare of huge searchlights clawed their way through tons of twisted steel and crushed concrete W Wednesday to extricate four comrades comrAd s who were burled buried wh when n three floors of a Manhattan loft building budding collapsed during a a faun faun-al four alarm fire Last Lut to be bo removed from the debris wu was was Fireman Michael Bennett Bennett Ben Ben- nett who had lain beneath the rubble since the tho floors buckled at 8 pm p.m. m Tuesday nl night ht two hours after after the fire firo broke out ut in the building located at 7 19 Broadway near the Wanamaker department tore store on the edge of ot Greenwich village Fire of officials II cl theorized that the fourth third and lec second nd floors floora crumpled under the thc weight of water Water water wa wa- ter poured into the building Bennett was freed after a fire dep department physician c crawled r a w wl l e c d through gh the wreckage to give him hima a blood transfusion I Others removed from the smoldering smoldering smoldering ering remains were Battalion Chief William Hogan Fire Capt John McGuire and Lt Jeremiah Cronin All were removed to the h hospital Before the rescues were accomplished accomplished pUsh d. d Dr Harry Archer 78 chief of old year year old honorary surgeon the fire department crawled through large heaps heap of debris to administer ter to the men He remained re remained re re- wide inside nea nearly ly two hours The fire tIre broke out at about 6 pm p.m. and the three e floors collapsed two hours later as is the fire was being brought under control Fire officials said the fourth floor was the first to give way carrying the theother theother theother other two floors to the ground i One of the firemen taken from the tho building Capt George Winters Winters Win Win- II gave this account of what happened fir 1 I was on the fourth floor working workIng working work work- ing with my men when all aU of a a sudden Budden there was a puff and the I next thing I knew I was going through apace space and when wh I woke up I w was s on the floor Heavy ice tee forming on apparatus apparatus apparatus hors hoe lines and the pavements pavement hindered firemen in fighting the fire |
