Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-02
A TENEMENT HORROR
In Cleveland Results in the Death
of Three Persons.
JUMPING FROM A BURNING BUILDING.
A Row of Tshement Houses Takes
Fire Causing Heartrending
LIST OF ne KILLED AND INJURED.


ment houses on Broadway, this morning, in
the Bohemian quarter, q destructive fire oc.
CURED, resulting in the death Of three per-
sons. The FIRE was discovered at 5 o'clock
over the saloon of Louis Deutch, -Four
families lived on the second floor, in all II
persons, and they were hemmed in by the
flames. All Of these escaped BY jumping
from the windows except young lady and
two children who were smothered. The list
Of the killed and wounded are IS follows
Mrs. Rosa weisel, aged II years, smoth-
cred; Fanny Rosenberg, aged years,
smothered; Sarah Rosenberg, aged Z years,
smothered Jacob Traw, aged 25 years, both
arms broken; Isaac Cohen, aged 40 years,
arm broken and burned about the head;
Mrs. Anna Cohen, badly burned about the
face; Esther Rosenberg aged IA years,
arm broken and body cut
Jacob Trsw, the young man who broke
both arms by jumping from q window, was
to have been married next Sunday to Miss
Weisel, who lost her life. Both young peo.
pie were at the picnic yesterday, and Traw
remained over night as the guest Of Mrs
Rosenberg, who is an aunt of Miss Weisel
Despite the fact that seven small children
were thrown from a second story window,
none of them were injured beyond slight cuts
and bruises.
Scenes During the Fire.
A Press dispatch says: The burned tene-
ment houses were located at Nos 349 and
353 Broadway, and were owned by Daniel
0dell. The lower floor of 349 was occupied
By Max Strauss as tailor shop, and Louis
Deutsch occupied 353 as saloon. Their
families occupied the rear parts Of the
ground floors as living apartments. The
upper floors were occupied by three families;
the kaufman family consisting of the hus-
band, wife and two children; the Cohen
family, consisting of husband, wife and four
children, and the Rosenbergs, mother
and three daughters. The families
retired as usual last night. Rosie
Weieel, q niece of Mr.. Rosenberg,
occupied the same room with her two
cousins. About three o'clock a son of
Cohen awoke his father and said he smelled
smoke. The father, on opening the door,
found the hall full of smoke, and quickly
gave the alarm. In less than three minutes
after Cohen was awakened the house was
one sheet of Ere. Men, women and child
rem rushed through the smoke, wringing
their hands and crying for help A neigh
Dor had in the meantime raised ladder to
the front window, which the kaufman
family descended in safety While the
Kaufmans were escaping the Cohen family
jumped from the windows and escaped ap-
parently without injury. Meanwhile Theo-
dore Traw, tie afianced of Miss Weisel.
Rushed Through the Flames
and smoke, searching for his sweetheart,
He called to her, but received no response.
BE was disposed to give up the search when
he stumbled against q crouching female
figure Lifting the girl in his arms he
rushed to the window and jumped. In the
leap he broke his arm and received serious
internal injuries On looking into the face
of the girl it was found that it was not Miss
Weisel but one Of the Cohen girls. AT that
moment Rosie and her two room mates
were struggling with death in the room
above. The noise had not awakened the
girls until it was too late to save
them. While the other occu-
pants were leaping from the windows and
crying out that there were three girls in
rear room, the fremen climbed into the win
dows but found no trace of human beings.
Some time afterward citizen nemed Stew
art made q search and found the chsrred
and blackened bodies The positions Of
the bodies gave evidences of desperate
struggle. Miss Weisel was undoubtedly
suffocated, as she was scarcely touched by
the flames; the other two girls, however,
were so terribly burned that it is impossible
to state whether they were burned or smoth-
cred. The three bodies were removed to
the morgue where the coroner will hold an
INQUEST. The chief of the FIRE department
is of opinion that the FIRE originated in
the saloon, and was Of incendiary origin.
The loss will net aggregate more than
s., coo.