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Show ensBssssssBB-sBs-aBssBnss-aas) four Italians Arc Burned to a Crisp; fire Wagons Collide Col-lide With Street Cars, Injuring the Intrepid firemen; 250 Horses Killed; Thrilling Rescues. NEW YORK, APRIL 2S. FOUR MEN WERE BURNED TO DEATH, 250 HORSES BILLED, TWELVE FIREMEN INJURED, TWO OF j THEM SERIOUSLY, TWO ENGINES OVERTURNED AND WRECKED BY COLLISION WITH CARS, SEVERAL THRILLING RESCUES FROM BURNING BUILDINGS,' AND A PROPERTY LOSS OF 200,000. ' THAT IS THE STORY OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DE-PARTMENT FOR THE FIVE HOURS FOLLOWING LAST MIDNIGHT. SIX DIFFERENT FIRES UPON THE EAST SIDE, ON BROADWAY, IN THE MIDDLE EAST SIDE, AND A BIG STABLE FIRE AT, CHRISTOPHER CHRISTO-PHER AND BARROW STREETS KEPT THE FIREMEN CONSTANTLY AT WORK. . . TfcS DI1AD' ARE TOUR "ITALIANS, WHOSE BODIES," BURNED BEYOND. RECOGNITION', WERE ' FOUND; MN THE RUINS OF THE '" BURNED STABLE. THE FIRE WAS IN THE DISPATCH ' STABLES, IN THE BLOCK BETWEEN CHRISTOPHER, BARROW, WEST AND WASHINGTON WASHING-TON STREETS. Three alarms called out a great battery bat-tery of fire apparatus, including two big fire boats, but it was only after a hard fight that the firemen saved the big adjoining tenements and the Palace Pal-ace and Knickerbocker hotels. Two hundred and fifty horses which were quartered In the building per-ished. per-ished. The bodies of the four Italians were found In the ruins an hour after the fire had been extinguished. The money loss in the stable fire Is placed at 1100,000. Another serions fire started in the Mansion laundry in East Seventy-third street, and swept up through the five-story five-story building, several of the uoper floors of which were occupied as tenements. tene-ments. It was while on the way to this Are that the two fire engines were wrecked. The drivers of both engines were injured, bnt it is not believed that either of them was fatally hurt. The firemen had a hard fight before the laundry and the tenement-house fire was subdued because of the lack of water pressure. The families In the upper part of the building were cut off from escape by the stairways, but were rescued by firemen. The fire caused a lose of $20,-000. $20,-000. It was in a high building in Wooster street that most of the firemen were in- Jnred. Fire had been discovered on the op floor, and the firemen had dragged their hose up the stairs to fight a stubborn stub-born blaze in the factory of the R. B. Frome Manufacturing eompany. The full eompany had reached the scene when there oame the back-draught and the flames and smoke swept over them. A dosen of the men were blown down a flight of stairs. Several of them were severely burned and bruised.,. Two other fires were in widely separated sepa-rated sections of the city. FIRE WIPES OUT , ONE OF LARGEST LUMBER MILLS SEATTLE, APRIL 23. AT 3 P.M. THE FIRE IS UNDER CONTROL. BLUEJACKETS FROM THE UNITED STATES STEAMSHIP PERRY LANDED LAND-ED AND HELPED IN CHECKING THE FLAMES. SEATTLE, April 23. Fire which broke out at 10:45 last night in the (Continued on page 6.). 'V. :' ' AWFUL FIRE. (Continued from page 1.) . planer-room of the Fort Elakeley Mill company's lumber mill at Fort Blakeley wiped out the entire plant, the largest - lumber manufacturing establishment on the coast, and one of the largest in the world, entailing & loss of between $300,-000 $300,-000 and $500,000. Of this 70 per cent la covered by insurance and the management manage-ment of the mill announces rebuilding will be begun at once. The fire originated in a hot box. From the moment of discovery thre was not a chance to save the mill. Flames shot up Immediately, enveloping all that section of the plant. The night force was at work ; at the time, and the 300 men were compelled com-pelled to flee for their lives. All managed to escape. Helpless to check the flames In the mill proper, the men turned their attention to saving the houses in Port Blakeley, many of which were not more than 800 feet from the fire. Every hose In the town . was pressed Into the service, and by the jse of the reserve reservoir sufficient water wa-ter was obtained to control the flames. Within a few minutes 200 men with twenty twen-ty hose were engaged In the work of sav- ing the town. The main reservoir, oper-lied oper-lied from the mill, was cut off. -The fire boat 8noqualmle of Seattle was tent for and put into port soon after midnight, and with the- Wyadda, which arrived twenty minutes later, had five two-inch streams of water playing on the 'lames. The fire fighting was in charge if T. C. Ford, resident manager of the Port Blakeley mills. At this hour the mill Is still burning. The plant was destroyed once before, - Bighteen years ago, just before the great Seattle fire, when the loss was almost as Urge as at the present time. |