New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-23
TILE FIRE RECORD.
RESCUED BY DARING FIREMEN.

AN OLD WOMAN AND SICK MAN Wound CNCOS-
sCIOUs IN HIGH BUILDING.
In the rear OF " Hess's barber shop, the ground
floor of No 2l49 Thirdave is shaft running from the
cellar to Of the building used TO carry up pack
ages by means Of elevator While Mr. Hess was ap-
nlyinc the lather to the face OF last evening
there was a sound as II something had burst. and
long sheet of flame leaped from the shaft into the shop
Mr. Hess IN his excitement placed the lather brush mo
the customers mouth and fed. The flames proceeded
rapidly up the shaft, and before an
alarm could be sent they burst through the
roof The building Is fiat house. four stories high On
the second floor John Ludlum his wife and four children
lived They we're eating supper when the fire burst open
the door To the shaft The that they In was
filed with smoke second and they had great difficulty
In getting hallway. One OF the children WAS left
behind In the confusion and Mrs Ludum ran frantcaly
back she had got the street and brought out the
child with her
H. c. whittls and his family lived the third floor.
They ran from their rooms upon hearing the Of fire
from the people below and had TO crawl down the stair
way their hands and knees the smoke was so dense
that they could not stand upright On the
top floor lived Mrs Mary Adams. widow,
over sixty years old Several weeks she broke her
leg and since confined 10 her bed She occupied
the front room in the fiat Her Townup daughter lived
with her The which the shaft ran through was oc
cupicd by William silked, young man who boarded
With Mrs Adams He had been sick for several days and
was bed when the tire broke out He heard the noise
in the lower part the building but before lie realized
tie danger In the smoke and flames burst In
10 his roou and while trying escape he was overcome
by the smoke and fell to tho floor unconscious Mrs.
Adams was unable 10 move from her bed
I'm A few minutes after the alarm was sent out
Engine No 35 and Hook and Ladder
No Ia dashed up to the burning
building The screams of Mrs. Adams could ne heard
family In the street ladder from the truck was nosted
III RI. no
ran swiftly mp the rounds lie smashed the wow In
tho top and the smoke poured out IN ms rare ne
realms tue woman were no longer heatu running us
hal over his face Jumped into the room ana crawlcd
toward the place where he heard groan lie lOund tne
woman partly out the bed and picking her up IN MS
ans he made dash for the open window. The woman
uneonsious and throwing her over MS shoulder ne
stepped the ladder Another hrcman asssted IL
carrying the woman 10 the street.
Fireman Thomas Kennedy OF Engine no 80, when ne
heard that there we're two persons IN tne ong ana
and dashed through the smoke and lame up the stlrs
he higher up went the perious was his Journey
and looked almost impossible for him 10 continue But
the Thought of saving The life OF "a sick kept him
and though the faes seemed 70 bufh MS SKIN ne
kept on reached the top floor breaking open the rt
door that he Fortunately 1t was the one where
eked was the draft from the open door anu wndow
enabled the form on the hoor Taking up
the body, which was limp and apparently nieiess ne
quickly all the dangers by the way No got sdiey
to the street An ambulance was snmnonea
He was severely burned about the face ana neck Dut
thought by the house surgeon OF the hoSpt that ne
would recover. Mrs. Adams taken 10 the mousse OF
friend she not burned having Ouly been o'crcoo
by the smoke and suffering from shock 49,, g.,
The ire was kept confined 10 the building wnere IL
started and soon under control Inc ne began III 1e
afforded such an excellent vent, tnAt
the top building wed the most damage ~ was
necessary up the entire roof to put out the aes
The damage TO the building estimated at SZ,UoO Inc
owner is James Wood The tenants furniture was badly
damaged by water and their loss Is about 500 EACH