Show CRUSHED TO DEATH six fireman in a burning building while fighting the flames on the upper floors the room gave way carrying the men to the basement beneath a vast amount of debris boston macs feb 5 the bodies of six firemen among them district chief egan just been taken from the ruins of the bent building which took fire at 4 this morning the dead are john F egan district chief james victory captain engine companies 39 and 38 george J gotwald lieutenant anzine company 39 patrick H disken hoedeman ho eeman john J fireman W cwalsh hoseman four other firemen were buried in abe ruins but escaped with lees serious injuries Th yare joseph garritty captain engine 7 thomas E conway hoseman T J doherty man edward bhea boseman lacut john E mccarthy of protective I 1 wae slightly hurt by falling bricks abo building was a five story structure on merrimac street occupied by G W bent co manufacturers of beds bedding etc the fire is supposed to have started in the rear of the fourth story the firemen had entered a window and were at work on abe fourth floor when the roof collapsed tearing away the top floor and the one on which the firemen were engaged burying them beneath the wreck the alarm was sounded at the building was filled with stift most inflammable materials it was boned on the east by a three story tenement and on the west was separated by a narrow alley from a similar structure while in the rear of abe tenement houses on south margin street was a narrow light wall so quickly did the flames spread to the fourth and fifth stories that within a few minutes the three upper atones rear and the third atory front were a seething furnace ot flames and there was no prospect that the firemen would bo able to eave anything above the second story the fight was made at the start by the stairways but soon the firemen were driven back by hot air explosions and a suffocating smoke and were obliged to fight from abe other side two ladders were raised on abe front as were also several of the longest extension ladders while streams were carried through the south margin street from the back windows of which floods were poured into the fiery furnace A the fire wae nearly under at the time ot abe accident engine no 7 were on the feung poor i h 1 and engines 38 and 59 on the second when tho root collapsed carraine carr down port Tone of all the floors th roath the basement and burying the firemen beneath great of A hasty of the department showed that ten men were the first man to be taken out was edward S hay who was found about forty feet from the front of the building onlie extreme westerly end pinned between the timber about midway between the first and floors having fallen from the fifth floor As he was taken out be said to those who were reviving him dont bother about me get the other bellowe that aro in there captain garitty was found within a few feet of shay pinned under some heavy limbers and was brought out in a semiconscious semi conscious condition tim roy was pinned under bome timbers which held bis less in such a manner that the timbers bad to be sawed through before he could be released next phil doherty 01 engine no 7 waa taken out he was apparently the worst injured of the lot his left kg was utterly ua elees mccarthy of projective I 1 was struck in the leg by falling bricks when the floor tell |