Trainshed Fire Gives Philadelphia Firemen Hard Struggle
Department Encounters Unusually Difficult Conditions Combatting this Serious Blaze — McKees Rocks Fire — Burnings of the Week
UNUSUAL difficulties confronted the fire department of Philadelphia, under the leadership of Chief Ross B. Davis, in fighting a fire which destroyed the huge trainsheds of the Broad Street Railroad Station and threatened the big station itself in the early hours of June 11. In fact only the skill and strenuous work of the fire fighters saved the latter structure. The peculiar type of construction of the flooring of the trainshed and the ceiling of the rooms beneath it made it almost impossible for the firemen to cut through and in consequence the fire, which burned with great rapidity, involved the entire structure before they could stem its progress. In fact, according to Chief Davis, not five per cent, of the water thrown on this part of the fire really took effect.
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