Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-18 | Page 7 | Firemen Work Fiercely to Check Destructive Blaze

PEMEN WORK FIERCELY lb CHECK DESTRUCTIVE BLAZE jjteh Village Families Driven Out by Huge Bs of Dense Smoke From Warehouses; mTwo Dead, Thirty Injured and and Three Missing Ht July IS (By tha As-Kgg.) As-Kgg.) Working fiercely o Sjames soepmg througr MEn the heart of Greenwich Cn toda were unable to Kick cloak of black smoke. Wetely shrouded the bulb.l-Srt bulb.l-Srt forced to blind battle ructive conflagration. ffjtartea with an explosion Iflkn. Several more followed. Fmc'oMuulty lint stood at t o mtO Injured and three , Re toll was tnken chiefly 'Ejnks of the fire and pollcei BORST IN YEARS. irrouna the burning .ilrur-m .ilrur-m covered mo?t of the block iljane street, Greenwood filth street and Eighth avc-l lower west sM- was the ectlon of fire fighting: ap- M&h hRS turned out aince th Klldin fire. IpAftn fire chief, 'Smoky"1 Hjttronounned the blaze one of the worst he had known during his long years of service. Pungent black binoke drove nearly 200 families from their homes and forced the police to withdraw the fire lines four blocks from each ilde of the buildings. FILLED WITH PATER. Heat and tmoko forced the firemen to prop their nozzles against omall tripods set up on the street and climb to neighboring rcofs to man other lines. Brooklyn was ordered i ; send a 4 6,000 candicpocr searchlight, attached at-tached to a special truok for u In an effort to penetrate the dense smoke clouds about the heart of the in:rno. Nearly five hours after th? blaze started, the cause was unde. ?rmin5d. Patrick Drtaeoll. assistant to the. general manager of the Star Publishing Publish-ing company which publishes the New Now York American and th- Journal, said his company hud a million pounds of newsprint paper stored In the warehouse. ware-house. He said no New Yor;: Tribune also had paper in the wrecked building.