Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-10-15
Fearful Scene at a Fire.
A YOUNG WOMAN's TERRIBLE FALL
PROM A ROOF. DARING REsCUES.

NEW YORK, October Flight
different firms have workshops in
an old four-story building on
Bayard street, near Mulberry, and
when, shortly after seven o'clock
this morning, fire broke out in the
structure the greatest excitement
prevailed. About seventy-fve
men, women and children we're at
work on the upper floors. A rush
of smoke from below terrified them.
A stairway ran up at each end OF
the building. Samuel PauPs work
men, who we're at the head of the
east stairway, found it unobstruct-
ed and escaped to the street un-
hindesed. Not so with the others.
On the first fight of the stairs at
the west end of the factory they
were met by a fiery sweep upwards
of a smoke so dense and luminous
that to face it was death. Behind
it was the roar of flames. The fire
was below them, in Hollender's
quilt factory, and their descent was
cut of. Up the stairs to the roof
swept the tide of men, women and
children in body. The lastreached
the fat roof with clothes a6re and
half smothered. Already the just
deserted rooms were on fire, and
the flames burst forth through the
scuttle. To stay on the roof was to
perish. Adjoining the factory on
the west is an old.fashioned two
story building with peaked roof
The peak reached to within a few
feet of the factory roof, but the
steep, slanting sides reached
ominously downward, with the
stone pavement of the street forty
feet below. A narrow stone coping
only broke the line Of descent. To
Jump was perilous, but to remain
certain death. With shrieks OF
terror that we're echoed in a
wall from the street as the crowd,
helpless to save, saw their danger,
men and women flung themselves
of.
Round in Mott street, Paul
Shappell, an old volunteer fireman
who had run to many fire with
Hose No. 4, heard a cry in his
wall paper store and ran to the
rescue. AS be turned the corner
of Bayard street with Patrick
Lynch and Michael Price, two
teamsters, who had been lounging
| in front of his store, a woman Slid
down the slanting roof OF No. 60,
hung on the caves for moment
| clutched desperately at the coping
and fell with heavy stone which
her grip had dislodged. She strucS
| the sidewalk head downward anc
| her skull was crushed in. AS sh'
fell two piercing shrieks arose above
the rest, and a man and woman
who, from the opposite sidewalk
had witnessed her fate, fell writh
ing upon the pavement. They
were the girls father and mother
She was Minnie Rogansky, ant
lived directly opposite the factory
A little boy was sitting on loos'
coping stone within three feet o
| the SPOT where she fell, looking
down, apparently stupeiied b.
terror. Shappell and his com
psnions dashed up the stairs to tn
attic. and the old fireman crep
through window out on the root
while the two teamsters held hin
from within, reached the boy a
the peril of losing his own life' AM
dragged him in. Policeman Mitch
ell had come up and helped in tn
perilous task. Surrendering thei
places to him, Price and Lynch go
a rope and ran up in the tenemen
No. II Bayard street, that is highe
than No. 60 and looks down on tn
peak.roof as the factory did on tn
other side. Throwing it down 8
that it swept the slanting sides c
the roof below them, they brough
| it within the reach of one after tn
other of the imperilled men an
women and hauled them up wheT
th6y were safe. Shsppell an
Officer Mitchell broke the scuttle
the peak roof, and climbing out
far as they could with safety, ,helpe
Others in. The last on the factor
roof, Hymsn Herbert, twenty-five
) years of age, took flying lea
and jumped clear through IL
scuttle into the attic. He hurt on
arm badly in the fall. A sto'
: man was trembling on the copin
| next the yard and was letting
| his grip, when a rope thrown
Shappell fell within q foot OF hlr
: ne seized it, and, guided by Stror
: arms, climed up hand over bar
3 and was saved. All escaped bl
o the young girl, who fell headlon
; from the roof. The loss on u
J, building and contents WILL reat
u $4,000.
}, Excitement In Texas.
;, Great excitement has been eau
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