| Show MILliON DOLLAR FIRE IN Terrible Experience of Firemen in Fighting g Flames with the Thermometer Below Belov Zero Narrow Escape of Entire Intire Wholesale Northwest Wind Prevailed Two fire Tugs at Small Fires Pire men Hurt Two Escapes from De Death th Fulling Walls Leave on the Broken Edge of a en Under the Walls and Severely Was Vas Intense Several Firemen Severely Frost of the Losses Chicago Dec lr at In an earl hour bour today loday gutted the build lags extending from 16 to 22 Monro street badly the building at a Monroe street caused a loss ng ag aggregating and resulted In th lb InjurY ot of nIne firemen fileman two of then them The injured ore are Captain Robot Hobert OConnor serious James lIerl sen senous ous William Captain John Kan Captain WIlliam Carey Ca y Captain Thomas Thomaa OConnor Luko Luki hayes Hu tS and Oswald The Tho fire Is supposed to have hao originated I on the second hoar In the work Will teen Willor or of Co wholeS wholesale ilo woolens nt at 2 Monroe fanned I h by a fierce northwest wind spread si rapidly that when shen the rire Ire corn com compan pony pan arrived on the scene the south end of at the building a or of flames A t second and then n a third alarm was as sent In but In spite of the tons ot of water waler thrown Into the he buildings by b th the 38 engines and ana two fire firo tugs the wind win the bitter cold colli so 80 hindered the firemen that for a time the entire district was wae In danger danner The quick communicated to the building at 2113 and 21 Monroe street gradually spreadIng east cast to and Monroe where Its progress vae finally checked Immense Immone blOnds ivere en carrIed us as faras tar far as Twelfth street and the lInemen firemen were er kept busy bURY extInguIshIng small timan fires on the bc roots root of oC surrounding buIldIngs s Th princIpal losses lapses arc aN r B met at ioro tN tg f loss Jos Edwards Edward J company sore to 10 Ph IY Dodge Palmer Painter boots and md hoes third and sixth floors loss logy f WoolI Co 0 first and second floors woolen goods good loss Schwartz Kline shirts to rth floo ora John cloak manufacturer fifth Building nt mit Monroe sl street et uc oe b by J 1 W si HuLler Juller Pa Paper er company loss J 3 W V Butler Paper laper company dam dani age nHe on stock tull fullI Henr 0 Shevard company printers printer occupying building Monroe Street 1011 The at FIfth avenue venile was cd 2000 D his there were weri minor losses II cruised by smoke anti and water on the Insurance ar are not yet yd but It Is probable most at o th time lauts ore are well ivell covered The from death of t Captain 0 1 und and Core Carey and Fireman Padden and others wh who Injury was little JIllie short ot of or of the men were on tilt the rOil roof ot of the tho building At and as the tIre crept cloer to the tho welt est tilde side or of the structure th the morn 1 driven toward time middle ot of the root Suddenly east nill 1111 ot of the building adjoining tell with a terrific crash An immense Imm ne massof mass ot of brIck and timbers timber crushed tim e 1 root roof OConnor and his men were at work The root tone lore away I from the he sides IMes and MI with a t crash cEsh to the floor beneath carrying OHara and amid Padden down In the debris arid and leaving the others on en the frail broken edo edge ot or the root roof high above Abl o lie flames fiame Cant OConnor Calahan and sn Inal finally succeeded In securing the two men arid crawling along the h rIpe kine wall they made their way to 10 fm fire escape and d descended safely to lh the ground After ACler the fir had been regina al put nn an hour and It halt half the wath waH began and seVeral firemen rt more olt ortes III J itie W SQ so seriously that he laken to the ho rho rhe fire woe one ot of the worst the fir firs department has hall had to contend with withIn In years The cold was intense th being several degrees d Ie te teat Je at zero rind oud a number of firemen were severely frostbitten |
