The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-10-11
Devoted Agrauura1 Manaursng Aancaz Art.
ssPARrANBuRe, SO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER II, 1sss
Terrible Calamity In New York.
A FAMILY OF FIVE PERSONS BURIED TO

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A FAMILY OF FIVE PERSONS BURIED TO
t DEATH.
Another of those terrible catastrophes,
the burning Of crowded New York tene-
ment house, is announced. A four story
tenement house, No. lSs Avenue A, on
the corner of Thirteenth Street, New York,
was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning
about l o'clock. The building was occu.
pied by several families. The family of
Cornelius Rottiger, consisting of himself,
his wife and three daug ghters, aged respec
lively eight, ten and sixteen, were occupy
ing the third story, and fearing to leap
from the windows, were all burned to
death, being found lying together in one
group, their remains baked to crisp.
Another family of five persons, name 4
Hartz, and son, Edward Hartz, missing
the bed in their fall, were SO severely i'm
jured that their lives were dispared Of
From the detailed accounts of this calami
ty, as published in the New York papers,
we take the following:
A citizen saw man holding child out
OF the window on the fourth floor of the
burning building as though he was about
to throw it down. He was hallowed to
and told to hold on until they could get
some ladders. These were not readily
procured at that early stage of the fire, SO
the citizen shouted to the man to throw
down some hedclothes, which he did. -Four
men then grasped these bed covers, AID
the man who subsequently proved to be
hir. Hartz, carefully dropped his daugil-
ter, Catherine, aged years, she being
caught in safety by those below. Hartz
tten threw out his sons, Edward, 8 years
of age, and Adolph, aged years, both OF
whom were caught, but they sustained
severe injuries. The police having pro.
cured bed, the father then threw out his
little, daughter Amelia, years of age, who
was slightly bruised. Mrs. Catherine
Hartz was the next to follow, the parents
having witnessed the comparative safe dc
scent of their children. The husband
seized the wife by the wrists, and lowering
her ns far MS possible by his outstretched
arms, let her fall. She struck fairly upon
the bed, but the weight was such that the
fall caused several severe injuries. Hartz
then followed his family, but he did no.
take sufficient precaution, and overlcaucd
tho bed, striking heavily upon the side
walk and receiving severe injuries His
shoulder was dislocated and two of his
ribs we're fractured.
In the meantime those living ON the
second floor, who could reach the awning
of the avenue front, Jumped out, and SO
reached the street in comparative safety.
MIR. Georges family and Mrs. Kopp aud
her two daughters escaped by these means,
all being compelled to do 30 in their night
clothes, 30 imminent was their peril. The
Malone family all jumped out of their win
dows upon the awning, and others upon
the beds. two of which had been procured
by that time. Those who jumped on the
awning received severe contusions. The
Growve family all sprang from the fourth
story windows on the avenue front light
ing OF the awning, which broke their fall
and lessened the extent of their injuries.
One or two persons leaped from the fourth
story windows ON the Thirteenth street
side, and were received in safety on the
bedding.
The cry of "Savc those people up stairs"
was then raised, and the ladders were sur.
rendered for that purpose, but it was too
late, as the flames had mounted almost to
the roof, as it was supposed that all the
inmates had jumped from the numerous
windows, the firemen carried their hose up
to the fourth floor, and poured in a torrent
OF water, which soon had the effect of ex.
tlnguishing the flames. The floors of all
the three upper stories were burned to
crisp and rendered unsaie. The entire
contents OF these floors were of course,
completely destroyed.