Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-09-04
THE EASTERN WAR
SULEM E4LEH EUICUITED
Efforts In Behalf Of Peace.
THE FIRE in NEW YORK.
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
THE VISITING GOVERNORS.
THE NEW YORK FsgE
Terrible AVeues Fire Escapes That
Were

NEW NOKK. Sept. Tine morning papers
devoie much space Ia rep rts Of yesterdays
IRE No rel able list Of the lost can yet be
gwen. Theodore StvetZ.l. aged y. employ
ed on the top floor OF The piano factory. says
The men ran To the stairs ts escape; but they
i'nhu them Oh mr.. Ih, Ladder escape was
TOO near the iTr to bs available. AID m an
tired tn chalu tscap., hUt Jae wheel ABOUT
which the chain should rGyo!ve you'd not
Turn. N q the men had to GO dOWn haui over
hand HI stalrca>e ia the corner of the
building was locked ard could NOS ~ opened
Ia accelerate iHslr rscFpn \ " frknal on
The second flCDT says that p-rHab' , zen or 4
dozen Ou the .Oy floor were buried in The
runs. as he observed SeveraI lal back from
windows, overcome 10y heat Rad sInD&e.
Foreman t1srteii las near, n complete tlst
OF w"rSnlrn who have TcG or Ell since the ire,
x a - positive only fOUr or i've were unable
ln escape man living opp site tue factory
=. ~ -Ue WCTEreU had time 10 pass from lie
old bUl ldl.s where The fire broke OUt INTO the
rev building through connecting doors on
each floor. He says the flames hat no; swept
through The old building until ali hat time
10 escape. The foreman z YES the number OF
WOIkmen in the factory wuPn ths lire started
as severity or eighty. A man who escaped
from the sixth Siot :, told the firCme q ne had
descended 10y a iall ToD- ana lefl sixty men
bthird. not O'.e of whom followed h I'M down.
Mason, who escaped Ia The roof aud thence
down the chain escape, says ifty men were
on me roof, ana THINKS forty perish ed. \
workman who escaped from the drying
room floor, where the lire started. thinks
none persisted on that floor. nor any except
that some time elapsed after the fire before
the inmates were alarmed. Andrew GaiSt
vas observed cOOlly working on the eighth
floor while al below was in flames. In AZ
hWer 10 shouts he came 10 the window, bat
hc seemed TO believe the people were Joking;
but as he returned and opened the door a
rush OF flame drove him 10 the chaiu pc.
Before e had lowered himself to the second
floor the chain became SD hot that he drOpped
II and fell to the ground. He says the men
on his floor persisted, as their aprons, DE-
daubed with varnsh and turpentlne ignlted
from the Intense heat. Some were cnvelOped
IN flames before they descended. The tire
men who first arrived on Thirty 81 xth street
say they saw men in all the windows above
the third story striving to escape, We, ARA d
to leap. Before the fremen could cut the
clothes line stretched across the intervening
SPACE and get their ladders up the ilameS
burst from the windows. Then
FOUR MEN LEAPED FROM THE THIRD
STORY.
All were seriously injured. One truck cap
tain Is certa in twenty or more persisted. OIe
fireman declares he saw TWO or three heads
al every window in the fourth and 18th
stories AbOther saw several jump from
windows. Some climbed half ont, Others
held The hands in the attitude OF prayer
and the screams were terrible. he windows
OF the top story of the new building were
hlltd with men. a woman in the top story
OF nelgbbOring house says she saw man
struggling at each Of the six windows in the
eighth story of tue new building. Others
were in the windows below. They fought TO
crowd down The ladder. In the contest sew
eral We're hurled to the yard add some
pushed back into the flames. Those who GIT
on Tie ladder fell off One climbed OUTSIDE
z dropped from sill 10 sill, X Ckiug in the
sdshes with his feet. He fell from the third
story. Two followed him but quickly
droEred. The 81" says The loss of life can
rot be Appropriated until the ruins cool.
and that II can hardly Toe determined with
certainty for weeks, If ever Fhy lack O
water was caused by the small s rect mains