Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-08-08
TWENTY SIXLIVESLOST
Awful Result of the Tenement.
House Fire in New York.
RECOVERY OF A SCORE OF BODIES.
One Hundred Human Beings Burned
in a Blazing Building Like Rats in
Pit-Men, Women and
Children Roasted to
Death.

New York, Aug. 4.-Fire in a six
story brick building at 1877 Bowery, late
Yesterday afternoon, caused the death of
twenty persons. One hundred and fifty
! persons lived in the building, and num-
Der of the occupants were penned in by
the flames and persisted, while others
were fatally injured by leaping from the
upper stories. Six of the Injured will
| die. Seventeen bodies were Ia
ken from the burned building
last night, and this morning
the charred remains of three more
victims were recovered from the ruins.
This makes the list of dead twenty, be-
side the half dozen probably fatally
burned men and women now lying be-
tween life and death at the hospitals.
| The dead are Russian Jews.
Much Indignation is expressed this
morning that the men in the neighbor-
hood of the building did not rescue
some of those In the burning structure,
but the latter was such death trap that
it would have been almost impossible.
A subscription list was started this
morning for the survivors of the fire.
The scene Of the fire is surrounded by
hundreds OF people this morning, who
watch the fire1hen with morbid interest
as the work of searching the ruins for
| the bodies Of the victims goes
on. A hush falls on the crowd
as the word is passed around that
the fremen have found another body.
1t is that of d woman, probably Minnie
Meyersen, tailoress of II Ludlow
Street 1t was found down on the
ground floor under heap Of burned
rubbish, where it had been overlooked
crisp, and the identity of the woman
can be at best only guessed at.
One Of the bodies taken from the
ruins early this morning was identified
this afternoon as that of Mrs. Adela
J Swift. Sarah Blum, another of the
victims of the fire, died this morning in
Bellevue Hospital. She was Il years
| old and a native OF Poland. That
makes seventeen bodies nov in the
morgue They are Morris Schwartz, IS,
| tailor; Abraham Schneider, aged 80;
Henry Padrigal, aged %; Adele swift
and her two children, Joseph, aged z
and Cecilia, aged 4, and Sarah Blum.
Ten bodies remained unidentified, but
as that of Jacob Feniberg,
aged 81, a buttonhole maker of
% Forsyth. Michael Rubinoff, Phillip.
Tarlon and Bonnard Rolhman, other
| victims who are confined in Bellevue
Hospital, will recover. About noon the
dead wagon arrived at the morgue with
another unrecognized body, that of
man almost incinerated.
| Shortly after noon another dead body
was discovered in the building. 1t was
| that Of man, but was unacceptable.
Among the bodies recognized at the
morgue to-day was that Of Jennie
Marks, Is years of age, atailoress.
The police guarded the ruins to-day
and kept back the curious crowds.
Abraham Stern, the owner Of the build
ing, viii bury the dead at his own ex-
pense. Inquiries were made of the po-
| lice this morning for Abraham Schneid-
er and Reuben Levine who are miss
| ing. Both men worked In the building
and are supposed to be among the I'M
recognized dead.
Six persons supposed to have been in
| the building at the time of the fire are
| still unaccounted for.