Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . ciently powerful to reach the safe with the hose in the middle ofBroadway; but anticipating no danger, they went forward. Adjoin-ing the north side-wall of the Continental Hotel was a thick brickwall, the only remaining remnant of No. 444. When the walls of thelatter building fell in, it was generally supposed by the firemen thatthe southern side-wall had also fallen, and even the blazing light ofthe flames did not reveal the mistake to the average observer. Thewall seen standing on the south was t
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . ciently powerful to reach the safe with the hose in the middle ofBroadway; but anticipating no danger, they went forward. Adjoin-ing the north side-wall of the Continental Hotel was a thick brickwall, the only remaining remnant of No. 444. When the walls of thelatter building fell in, it was generally supposed by the firemen thatthe southern side-wall had also fallen, and even the blazing light ofthe flames did not reveal the mistake to the average observer. Thewall seen standing on the south was that of the Continental Hotel,which was yet comparatively safe from destruction. The firemenhad not been in their dangerous position more than two minuteswhen a horrid cracking was heard, and almost instantly the treach-erous wall fell with a terrible crash, burying in its ruins the poor,unsuspecting firemen. A cry of horror arose from a hundred throatsas the dull thud of the heavy mass resounded amid the general dinof destruction. But few knew how many victims lay crushed beneaththe mass of
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