New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-21
HER CLOTHING BURNED OFF.
FATALLY HURT AT AN NcEyDIARY FIRE.


smoke winch was issuing from the windows of the
! three-story building on the northwest corner of
! Rlvngton and Wlllctt SITS. They sent an
| alarm land then went to arouse the peo-
/ ople IN the burning house. The inmates were
! awakened and the policemen climbed 70 the roof.
/ There they found boy nine years old and a
woman who had escaped from the burning building
| through the scutre. The boy fully dressed
| and uninjured. bur the woman, his mother
was burned about the body in hor-
rible manner Her clothes had caught fire as
sac was climbing through the scuttc and had been
! entirely consumed on her body. As the officers
were carrying her down stairs through the adjoII-
! ing house sine became inscnsibc.
Ire hremen arrit ed at that time and found the
flames raging on the two upper floors Of the corner
house. Strong odOrs of escaping gas and Ot oil
| were noticed. The stairway leading 70 the upper
loora was on the north side of the house the lower
and INTO NIlIctt-st. The hrcmcu told that
! some persons had escaped from tle house through
! the NLIett-,t. door and thar one man had been
! seen % jump from window upon the roof ot a low
! building ln Niett-st Leo Gertig, German.
| whose wife and son were found on
| the roof by the policemen kept the beer shop and
JET room, to l0dLors the upper floors. Cert had
nor been noticed about tnc binding after the dis
coyrry of tdr tire. 10 required only short time
tor t.e lrrNeu tO cXtl gulsh thc flames and dreucI
| tlc h"A lee Ti.I wat"r iu"rc was abundant cyl-
! Celee that tie fire wa, OF uceudary origin.
AUDIENCES OBJ NcNoMm~N
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first floor Gas was escaping from opcl burners IN
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soaked with kerosene oil and loose -havirl- had
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