The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-11
TWENTY. Y.SIXLIVESLOST
Awful Result Of the Tenement
House Fire in New York.
RECOVERY OF A SCORE OF BODIES.
One Hundred Human Beings Burned
IN = Blazing Building Like Rats in
Pit Men Women and
Children Roasted 20
Death s

New YORK, fug, 4.-Fire in a six
story brick building at lJ7 Bcwery, late
yesterday afternoon, caused the death ci
twenty persons. One hundred and fifty
persons lived in the building, and mum
Der of the occupants were peuned IN by
the flames and perished, while Others
were fatally injured by leapinG from the
upper stories. Six of the injured ~ill
die. Seventeen bodies were ta-
ken from the burned building
last night, and this morning
the charfed 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 neighbCr~
hood of the building did not rescue
some of those In the burning structure;
bit the latter was such death trap that
il would have been aimost 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 tiremen with morbid interest
as the work of searching the ruins tor
the bodies Of the victims goes
ON. A hush falls on the crowd
as the word is passed around that
the iiremen have found another body.
II is that Of 81 woman, probably Minnie
Meyersen, a tailoress of Ii Ludlow
Street. 1t was found down on the
ground floor under q heap Of burned
rubbish, where it had been overlooked
last night. The flesh was burned 10 n
crisp, end 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. AdelE
Swift. Sarah Blum, another of the
victims of the fire, died this morning in
Bellevue Hospital. She was 2l years
old and native of Poland. That
makes seventeen bodies now in the
morgue. They are Morris Schwartz, Sc,
a tailor; Abraham Schneider, aged 80;
Henry Padrigal, aged %; Adele swift
a-,d her two children, Joseph, aged 7
and Cecilia, aged 4, and Sarah Blum.
Ten bodies remained unidentified, but
later one of them was recognized
as that of Jacob Feniberg,
aged 81, a buttonhole maker OF
% FORSYTH. Michael Rubinoff, Phillip
TarIon and Bounard Rothman, 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 a
man almost incinerated.
Shortly after noon another dead body
was discovered IN the building. 1t was
that Of man, but was unrecognizable.
Among tie bodies recognized at the
morgue to-day was that of Jennis
Marks, J 5 years of age, a tailoress.
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 sete made of the po-
lice this morning for Abraham Schneid-
er and Reuben Levine who are miss-
iiig: Both men worked in the building
and are SUPPRESSED to be among the un-
recognized dead.
Six persons supposed to have been in
the building at the time of the fire are
still uuaccOunted for.