http://www.firehouse.com/article/10472965/the-equitable-building-fire
"$18,000,000 EQUITABLE BUILDING DESTROYED BY FATAL FIRE
Fast Sweeping Blaze in New York's Financial Zone Razes City's First Skyscraper Causing Loss of Life.
ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN SECURITIES BURIED
Chief Kenlon Says Huge Steel Boxes Are Intact and Contents Doubtless Unharmed - Building Cost About $9,000,000, but Equitable Considered it Valueless and Fixes Loss at $300,000 - Tenants, Whose Books Are Destroyed, Hunt New Offices - Thrilling Scenes at Worst Fire in Financial District
New York. -- The Equitable Life Assurance Society's block-square building at No. 120 Broadway was destroyed by a fire that caused the death of at least six persons, tied up the business of the Stock Exchange and several banking houses and gave the Fire Department of the city the most strenuous task of the last half century.
Fire Chief KENLON declared, after a late inspection, that the huge vaults of the Equitable and those of the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company are intact and that their contents, estimated at fully $1,500,000,000 in stocks, bonds, negotiable securities and cash, jewels and valuable articles, are secure from any damage.
Those who met death in the fire were:
FIRE BATTALION CHIEF WILLIAM WALSH, forty-five years old, veteran hero of many fires."
From "GenDisasters" http://www3.gendisasters.com/new-york/2707/new-york,-ny-equitable-building-fire,-jan-1912
http://mcnyblog.org/2012/01/10/100-years-ago-the-equitable-building-fire-2/
http://www.travelchannel.com/video/equitable-building-fire
LODD BC William Nash, trapped on 4th floor - collapse
Never forget.