| Show FOUR FIREMEN MEET THEIR TUB DEATH DEM Perished in One of Most Spectacular t ular and Disastrous Fires in Recent Years in New York HALF OF FORCE CALLED OUT humor feI hU itts 1 mm 6 WI Il miu l r Walls ly I A CIO L 1 10 Knur went to 10 their deaths d tonight who when II they Lucy tl y ro ye rol l to tJ a tire that ruined tho th Parker building iv it I tory business occupying OC Ile block ock between en East and rind streets on Fourth Kou half hair Limo tho n of ot apparatus i that thit blocked the ihie t streets heus tho damns flanum were WrO never noser eon con d and only with wih ith difficulty temo WO I confined confine to u tho th building In which I timid Floor 1101 utter i ac dropped to time tho basement and mu thoa t ei and crumbling walls I no 10 less le s than 30 0 firemen were wore caught and either killed d or r seriously Injured I When the thu lire tiro tr buret out and Iud tilt the toll was Wims railed called men inch INI of ot company No 72 and uni ouo Oi from 1 imd Fra Patrol P r Xo No 3 failed to tu ro re 11 TUB TIlE pl D Al Thomas Phillips Ph iii Thomas OConnor John Lynch John lohn VII lon Tim Hutchinson of or Patrol No 3 was WIS removed dying to 10 timo tho hospital I Veldon and Darvan of o f Erm En I gull company Non 21 2 und antI unI 72 were In iii Injured II Internally night Time The at monetary loss hiss S was vas WIS estimated to tonight I TIlE THE TH FIRE FIE Tho Time fire fir was wa one of tho the most spec as 11 well as disastrous In re recent cent years ears From start to finish Its course courso was marked by heartrending scenes s sensational and italics of t heroism Tho Thu building was wn occupied chiefly by b publishing houses though a I score ot oC other had workrooms or there The rho loss loo to the thu tenants Is III total The Thu lire Ire started on time thu fifth Ith floor 1001 In III tho the of Koper Kopl nod and Jackson publish Publishers Irl ers ri and before a I stream of ot water had alien upon U oll It the tho flumes flames had shot up UI through tho ho elevator shafts and anti pres presently enty all ni of ot tho the upper floors were we 10 ablaze On the tho fifth bloom where the watch watchman mann man discovered the thin fire flie Ite Jive lve girls em m by the tho Woolen corn com cm any pany were wor at work vork As s the te flames lames rose ohu ro o above them tho the girls hurried hurrle down tails to tho the street I reel On tho time top floor floorn foor In n the tho Suffolk Engraving es en six men mOi working Their escape was WIS cut off oft and they tey fled fledo led I Ito ito to o the root Flames had hod hl surrounded lurr undo them hem on aim throe three sides and they Iho wore were in jn Imminent danger dancer of death when res rescued i cued by means moans of ot a life line shot from tram a I mortar gun and manned bv by b n fL hook hool und and ladder I del company com on time tho th roof root of the tho Florence hotel adjoining on Oi Eighteenth street The Tho hotel Is seven cven stories in height and from Its Is roof roo a u rope roes was fired across tug the top of ot tho th burning building There Tere it was seen scon by the Im ito Imperiled periled d men and amid the tho froe roe end last fast about aholt a I chimney Down this ropo rope handover hand hUlid dropped the six men to safety safet Meantime the time Florence hotel had nd been bean bon emptied empted of Its 20 guests and nn nearby houses s were welO also vacated VI cn te ESCAPE I CUT OFF I Seven firemen of engine company I No 71 which arrived ran mn up to the tile first floor floor ot of the burning building I after 6 extension ladders nd had hn i been heon raised to tho the of ot that i tory story IO to make possible tho the retreat letter After fer a fruitless effort to stay the thc llames at nt tho LImit place ot of origin thu Ih firemen were driven to lO the windows 1 only to 10 find that tho time tops of lt the lad Ind ladders clams ders del ben been burned cutting off miff ol their only omil retreat nt Three of ot time the seven made a 1 desperate effort to reach the roof They Tiui were not nit again and Ind are 11 supposed to ho 10 death dead e 11 In III the time ruins Tho h other oilier four tour were rescued by h men muon ot 01 hook hool and ladder Il company Xo No 7 who wha at ilL the risk nf cit f their own lives lIc ran rn up UI pealing ladders anti and dragged tho the moue moro mOl or fr burned men from flom time the windows window Those These men machi IJ had barely reached the th ground when time the groat of or ce CU cement mont ment melt which form orin d a I pillar piar of ot the tho steel framework gave way Wt and alt crashed to tile the ground carrying with it everything over thing below the time seventh th floor Ioor I FlOUTING FOH FOIt liH LIFE John Failon Tim Thu Hutchison and Kelley 1 Il wont went down dow In III the wreckage Fallen Fallon I cllon was Wil not seen SOAn again II II Hutchison and Kele lighting don des desperately dOI against tho time plaster ter and ce cc el meat mell which threatened to bury bUI bur him alive aJ managed lal oll to reach tho thim street though frightfully Injured son lon was WIS only to say Sl SO that his part partner nor ner Fallon allol wo WI In time the debris when ho 10 collapsed and was wa removed in iv a 1 dying condition Moro More than cOll 1010 a II of ot were vere working within tho time wall or near enough elou 1 to tu bo be b struck when whon they collapsed Battalion ChIc Shea was aR tendered unconscious bv by h u me I blow on omu time the heath head multi and received a u gash gush In the time cheek chacko Dop Dep u uty ut mit Chief und Captains Captain Wei Weidon don and DI 11 ero also ul removed to the UI lit temporary hospital ho pIL l Meantime 1 the tho practically hail hati oI Its I own on way und tim the efforts of tim the firemen wore successfully directed time the thela nav na Ing II of or adjacent property The of or tho tha building Included the time com coin company pany r company Encyclopedia company 10 r PI Con Com Company pany D C Heath Company P F J Collier Son anti and tho the Judge Publish PublishIng blur Ing 11 company coin pan Further l Investigation proved tho tim tire tiro loss to bo her much greater than 1111 was Wil at nt first thought possible po Firo Com Cent Commissioner missioner lolle Lantry and AKst iest t Firo Fir Chief Chlo thought It might reach more than though tho time general estimate WiS 1 less A M dealer In II antique rut rul rugs sustained the tho largest hall Indi I vidual loss I OS HIl ions Is placed at M Sl 1 The Woolen com coin company pany Is said mild Rul to have havo lost 10 t nearly as a much Tho The Judge Publishing com coin company cm pany also suffered heavily as 18 did ld tho the bronchi branch office of ot Colliers Weekly At t a t Inter later hour nn an ni attempt to 10 search 1 I time the ruins for or the dead lead was 05 made but lUt participating were driven back backby by it time the tottering palls Ils that threatened I to bury them |
