New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-21

~ I1 ~ s,,o-r An, assistant teachs: IN Puoie
School No. IA; a the seh""ihoI-t gu. -, .hs
the room where the tire broke OUT unn Gu =. -
GROUND floor and on the stairway "a''ns W
princina room: a. Wa going Up the sta.rN ~ "a"
the Principal! Mis- Worries, az the mead - 'le III
way frs; floor above the Playground -h' "a,
ing some scholars 20 pass down the -'aile, n sbs
had then been discovered could no. Say VIM ~
said: directly after the scholars came rdshlhg u"""
they were passing down the main staircase ~ W.
uer heard no directions gwen 70 close 'ho ~ -
the ciass-rooms; the crowd ana ae ''ehe - 49,.
Navy stree: az the boys enhance 10" pI'~r pa -
Of the eirls passed out NJ CcncOrdstr.et sdei doI
think any of the girls went down the Nav y-sree' ss
was on the first landing OF the hrrt -tarHayi Lnet
Wa no jam where was assisted men. I'D 80
down and prevented the rush from being too grea'
when they were all ont | went up and saw ;hai 10
children in the Grammar llepatmen'' an II
Of the teachers in the Principals Department IA INC
Grammar School; when got up on the hfst moo, tle
smoke had filed the room; the smoke was No, denss
enough 10 suffocate nor was there much heat 'ha'
perceived; Miss Rutherford first saw the h'";
when | got up on the FIRST moor soulu io. w
whether all the folding door were closed or not "heh
] went up niierward. part OF the doors were OPEN
did not go toward the Navy street entrance a. al
the largest portion from Mr.. Wo,cott room caus
down by the Concord street entrance az the tlne anu
after the girl. had got out most OF the boys from
Miss Brown. room passed down by the Navy street
entrance when got mp stairs the glrs on the Ion,
cord street side NJ the Grammar Department had al
passed ont; went into the Principals Department,
on the third floor and saw children there; after
came down | heard of the rush ou the Navy street
side; have been in the school year, aud never heard
OF any alarm; have heard Mr.. Wolcott say that he
thought there danger from fire; this was almost
month or -iX weeks ago; he said he thought there
was danger OF the building taking FIRE; he alluded 10
the great heat from the pipes don't remember hat he
specified any particular place, but spoke oil u 81 q
general manner.
Mr. Harris recaled-The heaters pas through the
woodwork, with double tin at the side and around
them.
care in putting ia the pipes and be careful in
gard 10 the timing; consequence of this there was
expense in putting in the tln the TN was naed
| close 10 the woodwork the timing was an extra
precaution. 1850
Mrs. Jane Nackay sworn: Reside at No. 1919 Con
cord street next door To the schoohOuse assisted IN
the escape OF the children; entered the Primary en-
trance ON Concord street; heard great screaming
of the children and then went out and saw some few
of the children crying and teacher IN the gateway
she trying drive them away quite large gn
came by and | asked the reason, and she sad the
school house fire. then went III, nut previous
io going in saw the gate open II was customary To
keep the gate and door locked in school-ho saw
the teacher come out and fasten the doors open
then went in and saw about dozen girls in the
passage-wav: Jaw one little boy fall, and little girl
coming behind fell him, and tried 10 get the grI
out assisted in getting the children out rs last as
could alone; they all came rushing down on ,oP "
thos. who had fallen; gUtone entire class OUT before
any men came to assist me; this was all on the Son
side but one boy III the crowd thsre
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name was John w. Green; when the men came L
| went into my own house; saw no children come
out Of the main entrance; saw no smoke come out
while was there: saw the smoke coming out OF the
ton when went into the street, after getting them
out; have been under the impression that the hIe
| had been burning some days, from me tact
of smelling kind OF pitch smell m II, n
find the cause, but could not all day yesterday smeed
the same smell, and aired the house it often.
| sive that thought it was my own apartment have
heard IF conjecture from any one that the building
would burn; after left the passage went into
my own house; there no smoke on the staircase,
but the odor was the same as had smeled all along
days previously; gave the alarm OF hire down the
alley-wa the crowd we're beginning to come when
went away; ! assisted in taking out about two hun
dred the children had been nearly all taken out be-
fore the alarm became general in the neighborhood
took ont about fifty one hundred before any one
came at ALL have noticed that lately could feel the
warmth in my house on the wall adjoining the school,
the fue and chimneys in the school close TO my
house; have noticed lately that the heat has been un'
usually great; have never beard of any danger ex-
pressed by the teachers ~ to a fear of fire.
Ebenezer Smith swOrn--Reside at No LIS Nassau
street; heard the school fire and went back to
call my workmen; whenl got Ia the entrance on Con-
cord street the children all gone went up TO
the second story and about thirty feet from the west
end of the building, on the Concord street SIDE IN
at the top Of the stairs, We saw hole, about
two feet square knocked out in the partition, and
fire there; threw water into the hole and put
out what fire there went up to the third story
but the smoke dense could not proceed in
quired II all the children were out, and learned that
they were; then went out 10 the rear in the alley
other buildings; did not go to the Navy street
side at all; this morning looked and that there
heat escaping from the furnace at the end of the
building; heard mason say that he two pipes
unsoldered, and did not think the place was safe |
have seen boys several times going after water carry
ing several pals at time heard il was for the Nor
NAL School.
James Wilson, sworn-Reside in the rear Of the
schoohouse in Smiths alley; present at the fire,
and went to the girls entrance on Concord street.
saw children coming down the stairs; at the time
was there | suffered from smoke; the smoke
coming out of folding door the ground floor; il
was quite dense; the children had all got out; when
went up saw little girl and passed her down stairs
then went round and passed to the wing the Navy
street side; there found jam the stairway; there
number of boys going toward the Nsvy-street
entrance; opened a window and assisted in passing
the boys out the smoke quite dense in the angle
the draft from both ends forcing the smoke into the
angle there door open TO let the smoke out;
have never heard of any fear being expressed to
danger in the building; found one of the boys lying
sufocaed in the third ROOM boys department, on the
Nayy-st side; his name was Wyck; at the time |
saw him the smoke was dense that had TO retreat
several times he looked as if he had had spasm;
passed him out of the window. and told the man TO
| take him 10 the doctors.
Thomas Petit swOrn-I reside al the corner of Con-
cord street and Hudson avenue; present at the
fire. went in at the FIST entrance from Hudson avenue,
on Concord street; saw fifteen twenty girls in
heap the foot OF the stairs and others coming down
upon them discovered no smoke at that time; as
sisted in getting them out Of the crowd when the
passage cleared started up stairs; got on the
first fight and went in the hallway about fifteen or
twenty feet; found the smoke dense that / came
back; then went down stairs and up the Navy
street entrance and got up to the first platform
the STAIR and pile of children about eight feet
high; ] was the first man there; Mr.. Wolcott
above the landing; he trying TO keep them
back and then handed them over the bannisters;
tried TO extrcae the boys tho pile but could not