Nine firemen were overcome by ammonia fumes while fighting a fire in the cold storage warehouse of R. C. Rinder, 48 to 52 May Street, this morning.
(3)
One person was suffocated, one fatally
and three seriously burned, and
the lives of many others endangered
when fire swept through the five-story
flat house at 122 West 127th Street
today.
(4)
Three children were burned to
death this noon while locked in the
house by their mother, Mrs. Frank
Lincoln, 1719 Belleville Place.
Persons and Places
(1)
Market Square Theatre was damaged
by fire to the extent of $5,000
late last night, evidently the result of
a lighted cigar or cigarette thrown on
the gallery steps at the close of the
performance.
(2)
Robert Camp's summer home at
Rockton, L. I., was completely destroyed
yesterday by fire said to have
been started by tramps. The loss Mr.
Camp estimates at $25,000, fully covered
by insurance.
(3)
Wilton C. McClay, broker, 71 Exchange
Place, was suffocated by
smoke in his rooms in the Oxford
Arms early this morning, when fire,
originating in a defective flue, damaged
the building to the extent of
$1,500.
