Philadelphia Firemen Killed.
A tack dropped in a picker machine caused a seventy-thousand-dollar fire August 2 in the four story mill at Randolph and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia. Two firemen were killed and seven injured by a falling floor. The firemen killed were George Geissell, hoseman. and George W. Dickel, truckman. The injured firemen were Joseph Burns, Martin Casey, William Cappint, John Kelly, William Lumpf, James McGarry, and Samuel Cook, fore man. None of those injured will die, but thev have severe bruises and contusions. There were about forty men and women at work in the carpet cleaning works on the second floor and the third and fourth floors, occupied by Cronin & Co., when the fire broke out.
As the smoke began to make its way through the floorings, and to fill the rooms, a panic ensued among the men and women at work, and for a few moments there was imminent danger of even a more terrible catastrophe than the one that followed later. The firemen, after about an hour’s work, extinguished the fire’. While eleven of the firemen weie on the third floor, playing on the bales of wool to extinguish any sparks that might be among them the among charred joists gave way, and the floor went through to the cellar, carrying with it nine of the men. Geisseland Dickell were instantly killed, and all the others were badly bruised and cut by the mass of debris that fell upon them.
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