The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1912, Page 3

oe a THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1912. CHIEF WALSH DIES IN FIRE AFTER SAVIN AVING HIS MEN ERCANTILE. PRESIDENT, | Rescue of William Giblin by Daring Firemen “|WATCHER NEARLY Specially Photographed by an Evening World Staff Photographer. TRIPPED IN VAULT RUNS, gums — 1 HUD AS HA RESCUED BY FIREMEN RES VOLE Bullet Whizzes Across Street From Third Floor of Burn- Wm. Giblin, Head of Safe Deposit de dt Company, Dragged Helpless From Ruins After Being Imprisoned : for Two Hours The rescue of William Giblin, President of the Mercantile Safe De- | posit Company, the offices of which occupy the northeast corner of the While the s of the Amerioam Surety ( y and others in the oullding at dway packed the windows on the Pine street side and watched the progress of the fire a that nearly desk on the third f the burning bullding exploded from the heat, One of the bullets flew thee ah the window, sj acros Pine Equitable building, was the dramatic feature of the big fire. An hour inp her ee me in in arenes De after he had been given up for dead, firemen passing a basement window on the Broadway side heard faint calls for help. They found Mr. Gib- lin clinging to the steel bars of the window, peering through the shat- tered glass. = The bars were cut through after two hours’ of dangerous work and the then half-unconscious man was dragged to the street. Beside him they found the unconsious ‘body of William Sheehan, watchman, | and the body of William Campion, who had died of sutfocation, i Mr. Giblin was notified of the fire about 6 o'clock by telephone to) his residence at No. 346 West Seventy-second street. According to the reports current at the fire he left his wife dying from a protracted ill.! hess and rushed down to the offices of his company to superintend the | salvage of the books and other valuable papers and documents. | FIREMEN BEGIN RESCUE WORK. When Mr. Giblin arrived the fire was as yet confined to the upper | floors, and he thougit that he and his assistants would have ample time | to put the company’s books in the fireproof vaults. While they were | at work the floors of the building gave way and blocked the exit from the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company's offices. Mr. Giblin, William Sheehan and Campeon, who was captain of the night watchmen, were J a4 = | ae Northern completely cut off from escape. — — msn an artinent of the American Surety Com- her do the bullet whis turned and saw @ vox of . tehind him go ir and jand with a bang ax wail. He found © bullet embedded in the enyelopes, PACIFICS OPENED NEW OFFICES DURING FIRE. “We beat the dre to it," was the way an official of the Southern Pacific Rail- road explained how his company came » first of the burned out tenants ters, removing from Equitable Sullding which destroyed our ler control.” ) and Southern Pa- citle securities held In the treasury of are kept outside of the nt Robert F. Lovett i Southern Pacific in arising from the Bullding, “The jos to the railroad will be and th nt of the in- of the Union useing condit he third and burned building fie Railroad se- | eu { quarters in the building at Ne —— S$ ———— | 165 Broadway, hard he aa fe ‘atled and joing bus! The first the flremen knew of the presence of ti h Z “T4) go in,” he shouted, ]eninute I felt the entire building wana far as they knew, rv ore if r the heavy 23 vay wall mae Leong the. peg Bing Me ming n e' i presi nese three in the! 1 was Dr. Giradansky of Gouveneur cave In on us | tut {come down with sufficlent force tol J, R, Pollock, division commercial vaults under the Mercantile Company's offices was at 7 o'clock, when | Hospital. “The last thing I remember before 1 ‘The Fourth National and Hanover Na \cave in the real Ot aia aus WET BOE a nanager of the Bell ‘Telephone Com: ° ‘The young surgeon crawled into the it have fainted was seeina the re : several men were rescued from another part of the basement and told bending b th late viclnity | pans. had a force of 100 men ready opening, through which @ volume of ne back the of Ul as Well us the Chase Na-| Huilding Department experts did not) ON, “an hour after the fire started Cl found oy 0 0 7 ” . . he jous, I \ ot ry their saviors they believed others were caught under the fallen floors, | dense. black smoke was now pouring. cate nee SN Boa sien | onal opened for Amert-| think the danger sortous, Big pieces of | (relocate. firms which had ‘The heat forced the firefighters again and again from the butlding, but dur. | Hil! Uazed firemen, sheeted from head | felt mywelf being pushed and pulled | 6 tonal banks, in the Jose It# main! cng wall fell without breaking the! juried out and wanted new telephones offi opened at No. (6) wdewalk vault roofs, i tg one of the rushes to the elde of the flaming structure several firemen neaca {2,(20%.!0 thiok casings of ice, thelr hele [through the window and found myseit NORA WA) | mets flaunting strange-sha Histening | eulping in 16 fresh air, T never tasted faint cries for help coming from the broken basement windows. They reported s we-shaped glistening felcles, stood at tha window ready to anything as good as that first gulp of Eh lal apd Ula IN : the fact to Fire Commissioner Johnaon, who was standing near, and the Com. lend thelr ald to tne brave young doctor. |'°,00148 MIT” os eiea and has a baby | The fire in the Hqultable Lite Huild missioner jumped forward. There was a long pause. Then Girs-| evan months old at his home at No { he vs anke ti. Ue. ‘The Commissioner bent before the window and saw Trust Company President dansky's face appeared. Over his back | » 7 . aba 4 ‘est Fifty-second street As ing House on he had thrown the dy of William ering between the bars: By Sheehan, watchman. The firemen helped ‘Cheer up, we'll get you out!" the Commissioner cried. vermd he asked some one to, te ely posite the destroyed | fs 2 , wate , hla wife that he was save —_— us ve wan reat anniety In) i re" ! | The crowds on the the rescuer and reacued through the| Tin y Manning, ono of those whe x ‘ ean ; t banking tnstitutions tii | - dewalke surged forward as word spread that @ rescue was to bu attempted, ang aperture and rushed thom across the|!ad Worked most desperately to save the) Whole Financial District Af-|, ye Se 1 ° re Trint Ife of Mr. iblin, went raving mad soon i hy wou bem ade in the ne police had diMiculty in holding the lines, foe Oe Building, while the (eee ee a eveturned to. his. ot fected by the Equitable |% the Chamber of Commer y 3 PREOE SR SOOIE: < dragged ambul y 3 ti . ' ?RIEST BRAVED FIRE AND WATER. Sheehan was quickly revived and] surgeons auld they thougit his pen Tue clerks and officials appe VE IT Commissioner Johnson called for @ steel cutting saw. Fireman James Dunn taken to the hospital, He told his res-| would be temporary. It was a species) Lite Fire. : 5 ngine Company No. 6 rushed for the implement. While h . cuers that he had tried to drag the body |of emotional hysteria due to the strain | oe t the Fire Department, i fone Father or the other dead watchman to theJof selng before him @ human life whose fs he deipanapenes i ear Wrens So the. wibdaw, Over ‘hls y ed on his work, they de- window, but had succumbed to the smoke, He few more head @ half dozen streams of icy water played against the scething walls, @howers of stone fell about the Lark labored Ike a Trojan, Once young priest. Several small ochips|shouted over his shoulder. Only The burning of the Equtable Build. ing had the effect of actually paralyz- *, to0, would have died in a was taken to Hudson Str joments, Remarkable Record of New Treatment That Makes of Campton remained ‘inside btruck him and the deluge of ley water|near him could understand what he eral months, was not notified of the! dente heen. mistaken in ,[ This was due to the fact that the [iy nA He BANE nn Grenched him to the skin, but he stuck | ald, but it was learned afterward that danger in which her husband had been, | watehman dead for Campion sur eded| Equitable Bullding waa ot only « entiti In an appear Successful in Over 100, 000 Cases. * to the window suntil he had adminis-|he had seen Giblin drop forward on his She will not be told of the fire and|in freeing himself from the pile of tandmark in the heart of the district, Wowoere able to condue! tered the last rites of the church. hands In a faint and was afraid the the dramatic rescue unless her condition {debris and crawled to a berred te) out 4e was one of the hives In which Sa BATU av Ere exo uaton ; Then Fireman Dunn returned with teber wonld be in vain, greatly impro' It is expected that | hear the window ¢ r meh a tt nplienth ration afte Ata. (nce A “ May aathace: tite | noe ht finale, , sorame one ean ee semen Seer melee | it: Gen from, barmtuh er the saw. Chaplain McGean was pulled] Plying his saw with redoubled vigor, /Gihlin will be able to go to his home | #24 hen Gare in his oleh centre of (ie: olly. Rt aaian “tt ineimbenitae Hee ‘ : Dr*'Nrmant, trom the windew snd Duna set to Lark worked for a few minutes more. | pefore night. Flat “A fleet het gente nda hat dag) PS HR oar work. comrades e sprang to his feet. 0 reach ets egan pouring in from ferries, subw bf water playing about the wall above| “I'm through the bar.” he shouted 4o/RESCUED MAN TELLS OF EXPE. (Vaan: ras was to force an unprecedented action | it tevated Zeaied the nate tim and a half dozen men stood back,| loudly that the crowds half block | RIENCE IN VAULT. Ma eee iaarnea that’ Cam on the part of the rors of the row street minutes unti red at_and jeored. at; ther ) ‘The task Dunn had set out to accom-|away heard the cry and gave a tre-| Sheehan's supertor physique stood! watonman, Exchange. They {sued an order driven away by the poilee, who were in ort this now dlacovery health gain’ 0 muscle, Derve fiteh was too great for one man. The| mendous cheer. him in such good stead that after half in tt pending’ deliver! the da Alresh charke af Gomtolssionsr Wldo, elvan bar he hed to saw through was an inch{ A dozen firemen ran forward with alan hour's treatment he had entirely ree Deposit Comp found that #0 many of the s« sep ti seater the vet i: int Tne a wi too oH and a half of solid steel, The little hand-| ope. One end was made fast to the covered and was able to walk about Mscovered the Sie nnepenaty valent ee ETT ta aan” une heen ‘blaowd at the : ar and with fifte : sine-ro 1 i lon. feu n aye phi nding. the coun daw bit feebly with each stroke. For a) bi 9 en men stretohed |the enxine-room in the ‘Trinity Build sree Deana tavhava Daan o Raat 4, econ Row aalé hour Dunn worked, Then he| slong the rope some one gave the com-|ing. ‘Tie fingers of his right hand “ ee cdige Waray me a esthe hese certee ihe maa ‘ottered back, nearly overcome by the mand to heave. Waldo and MoClusky |were broken, but after they had been ihe Main joor a ered were locked up in the : . yeat and smoke, and Fireman Brown 0: |helped. The men backed away, haul-|set and bandaged in splints the res “ty Campion told’ ¢ sof the Eguitavle Building that ding, herve, So fae ae Truck 1 rushed to take his place. ing with all their strength, Slowly the ;cued mam lighted 9 clgar and sat chat- here in these of Would result were the (at chested woman, Brown shouted back that Giblin big steel bar pent upwaml. When the | ting with hie acquain 8, falling and Vi Il stick to Hie minute” These deliveries cannot y sande, ened res opening had been made large |them the story of what had happen te “¥ re tM alive and clinging to the window rge enough Dp Joo made now until the vaults are Sah eke « somrtete,, (horweea ona Sey sil, As be worked Brown continued |®M¢ of the men nearest the window|in the upper *ult chamber of tne | MRS. HARRIMAN GLAD lrg A’ anil Gparieds BLA thho man naine mt this treatment ‘withou 2 | dropped his hold of the r cantlle Safe Deposit Comps \ t Sse, Aiea a etme. to shout encouragement to the ig Het plunged Headiona tnis. th ‘ope and | Mercantile Deposit mpany. ROADS DIDN'T BURN. | al rule will have to adopt weight can prove the oned man, After another half hour i Into the window. “L came to work as usual at 7 o'clock ‘a ing ihe: {rat aa Brown was forced to retire and Fire-|FIREMEN LIFTED HELP! I found Mr. Glbliq there and Campion 5 ecurlties that are is 1 hy the fire, man Young of Truck 1 relieved him. eon SURTaR Wikoeee They told me the building was on fire! Wigow of Railroad Wizard Calm] at is extinated that fie securities In a ft . The bar was cut half way thro A y above us, but said we were not in im- | = eden ee the vaulls amount to, $50,000,000 violence peaple were carried fr ‘When Young was forced to give up| Another fireman followed. There was |mediate danger and could get to work| When Told Records of ane Trading Stock Exchange was feet, while fl hers had the job thirty minutes later Fireman/a moment's tense suspense. putting the ve bluabie papers in the va ite, | em Aren't Destroyed. i ory. Liverybody talked about the stantly dodged t tot " William Lark of Engine No, 20 took! ‘Then the heads of the two firemen ap-|, “We had started down the steps pale hte word was] re. One member created a lot af en. | the conta et ey desta GOOD FOR ste BOX the saw. eared at the window, and between them |!P& fo the vaults when there was a) As soon as was powsilie Merl wat) itd ty sting that « fund ry atin, pa ai any debe natal See, By this time Commissioner Waldo|they boosted out through the opening /ETea CTaEM And bricks, mtonas and] tetephonod to Mrs. 1 1h Harr aised for the families of the tree| PEAR WALLS MAY FALL AND TCD | mere ang Inapector George MoClusky had}the halt conscious body of the Trust| T AL OPEN EOTIRO WAU ee ela ne aay the record ety floor of the Equie| wen who were killed or injure! tn the| INJURE SUBWAY, b Watt traetag At1 Tsai ahha taken up positions near the window,| Company President. The cheer that|then, when I tried to get u Bd eae een: the fur juze, The project was taken up at{ § PaanE OF Buligings, 24) Hn BLY engiow eta tn 8 ates , when d to pT found my | faye ding, had > p he fire that his departm ays ¢ its ready to lend thelr personal ald 191 arose when the rescue was made known {right hand was vabeht in the piles ot| (able ullting, had. hee god @ substantial sum: itp soon sacuen the. fire thas ile. Gepata Vita ‘ay mains, to, tad ; Wats Giblin when the bar was cut through. | echoed up the canyon of great bulldings|rock and [ couldn't get tt free. Smoke *9 Are hag Et ks aghog | oealized laiiecheatihed npassible ; BIN Wis'COUPOS VOVOUR verter and could be heard at City Hall Park, | began pouring in and I thought 1 was! have not been remove’ os vid 4 aninlar 1a: walls. ave Pmt waa catried tothe teeiic totes |anlag.ta enoKe to death the widow of the raliroud “wiaan! INANCIERS ORDER MEALS FOR attenin.\ Lae iad = of tho ‘Trintty bulkiing across the), “Beaile me T saw Campton, Hy va.) "That part of the structure iy Tuned! THE FIREMEN, ehuation Miller ? half covered with the fallen bricks and | was the response. "Phe re rant of the Stock & i the flames have been sul Who Lost a Watch ? |[street. 110 was sopping wet trom head] Mite tT touched him with ek acre | ete eNO t ghe Are has | wee eee Oe the ae ihe Damien have Data subd ate Daisies Iae -2- The World has received a letter || Feet an egy by smoke. Dr.| hand and found he was dead, Then I} yo¢ destroyed the railroads,” was the! yon and meals and hot pc reher of the Fire Department attend-| heard Mr. Giblin's volee J ' 5 and ®. Harriman hung up.| served there. J. Ie dated Jan. 6, signed by Isaac Cohen, |] 24 nim, yer, Sheehan,’ he sald. A Mei Wi ‘ R e «6a Prospect pi ce, Brooklyn, stating || After a few moments Giblin revived id & prayer te Mt. -Anthony, | saying she, AER EES era RaLRRM Fanon BGO, in n a that the writer found a ladles’ watch || simctently to ask after his wife. He hen T got t nrough thy prayer I felt Sr Medak Pond edt 1 other Geraa tn on Eighty-seventh street Christmas || was rushed to Hudson Street Hospital meh re P| aie bearing on : was =F x Harel wet table siding. Eve, The watch contained a picture |! whore the physicians later sald he was prey vee Bre Gielen “Yon | poultl al pally ties a arene, tae new to J4 remen, F po | FIFTH AVENUE of two children. suffering from shock and exhqustion, Jon nis knees and seomed to be praying, | {0ns with men in hich political ite be AIRE wo Ware. a fe | AT THIRTY SIXTH STREET Mr. Cohen explains that he has Meanwhile the cry had gone up among | too. fron aie Be 98 ae i ey ren ue te sand papers fram the bur Leotect lubely: watched the “Lost & Found” adver- || the firemen who had worked at the win-| ‘Then the mmoke got thicker and 1] time al ay Wn Pulenge ; Outfitters to Boys & Girls “ i coughed and coughed. Mr. Gtblin went -_s Sudt. G Van Tuy! Jr. of the} tising columns of The World, but || dev that two other bodies could be seen et arnving Department that the watch had not been ad- || on the floor of the vault and that moana! ‘net ty T think he broke it, but itmay | NORTH DRIVE OF BRIDGE at ate. “at ine i de eaters ot) @et the Original and borer r s e broke it, 10 first to oYer ald to the vertised for. were coming from one of them, Tee have fallen in just as he reached it CLEARED FOR ENGINES, |‘ 20 frst to i apuitable Lite Announce re fighters were half crazed by their | The Mish of air sent the smoke back a] When the Brookly. paratus re ia Age sri 7 y 7 It is plain that had the watch long battle with ice and flame, They | ittle and I breathed more freely. ported to Chief Lally he Brooklyn |/"8 Supt, Van ‘I FOR WEDNESDAY ONLY been advertised for iB The stood tottering before the window, not| “Wile Mr. G , end of the bridge and was ordered |" behalt of the ares World it would have been re- ne of them” seeming to have ug-|Z heard him calling for help. ‘Then 11) srannattan the north drive of the | © modations of the ‘arn! | Annual Advance Sale covered by its owner some ficlent strength left to enter the butld- & helmet was closed excep: to the ten time ago. h , pn Jappear in the window. Pretty soon 1| rise WAH Aaa Life Building who Ing and drag out the two remaining heard a voice and looking up enw Father jensines which went thundering a ih i te tre | The Foed-drink for All Ages. Boys’ Wash Suits World “Lost & Found) adh not ae Saeco VRC UNTEERe M f ‘ apiatn, a th window. |in quick succession. urba, hagle Garona For Infants .Invalids,and Growing children, | only get a circulation in New York store ne ¢ but at{of traMc and the shutting off of the een ineee ‘ Gity greater than the Herald, Times TO MAKE THE RESCUE tried to cheer Us up and [stnpet curs to let Uin engines go by |¥Aulte are bein vlecaiel by the Stat PesNurti, wpbuleng ha winebeck, | Girls’ & Misses’ Wash Dresses Sr airepere Cris | Tever ye . r would try to maw i rew transportation into disorde janking Depa meh too! e yates the nursing mother and the a: ‘ cti r arices Sun and Tribune COMBINED, but |] jatner stocean stood with them,(through the bars and get us out SoS ee eee ein ad’ hat aim (avee 1a Gale vast | Rich milk, malted. sli in powder form. | De Pinna productions exclusively—at lowest prices ever \ Abey are always published conte He started forward to entor the win. |, “Onf after another the firemen came} oy, The Bankers’ Trust Company made |: es before offered, ously on page te editorial |] Me rr fo the window and sawed at the bar —_—-- Ginenlah PlAeTORe Al iinceninracten aca | ACaneeee Mg ey prepared in a Toten, | t page Wh d the Chaplain, | thicker, and ROW aad tien then |) een CURED IN @ TO 14 DAYS, [arranged to eoren the | Mer Take no substitute. Ask for HORLICK’ — = The slender Agure of an ambulance | was a terrific crash somewhere in the ‘ay cane of” Itching surgeon sprang forward, Quilding tha, shook us “pr ‘and every | iesuns vf Viotudiue Tues'ia oto 14 daycebe > A a Pe Ae ieaanee amine inte “| Mot in Any Milk Trust |