The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-09
A BOWERY HOLOCAUST.

Death Trap-The Terrible Results of a
 Fire in an Unapproachabic Tenement
 House in New York. Denseiy i'eopIcd by
 Polish Jews--Iist of the yictIHs.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 4-The Bowery yes : terday afternoon was the scene of the most horrible fire that has visited New York in many days. Fouytesn dead bodies were taken from the ruins, and a number Of persons wore taken to the hos pital badly burned or injnre by jumping. The building burned was six story death-trap located in tho rear of the Pso- ples' Theater i'll the ce tier Of the block bounded by Bowery, Rivington. Christie and Delancey streets and was unapproach- able save by an alley way scarcely thrce feet wide and hundred fest deep. The first, second, third and fourth floors were used as tailoring shops bv four different firms who employed nearly ono hundred men and women in the mapufactnre of cloaks. Al of the employees were Polish Jews. The building, which was fllei with inhlmmablc material, burned fercely and rapidly, and by the time Inc firemen reached the scene It was roar. ing furnace.
 Back of the building is a narrow court yard about six feet wide and covered with Tagging. All roads of escape being cut off, many of the affrghted inmates rushed to the windows aud jumped from the third and fourth stories to the nWrow pen be- low, oulv to receive broken limbs or heads. Many wero overcome by smoke before the fire reach ,d them a1l w-re unconscious while their bo lies wore boing burned to a crisp. 4r
 he ero nin1, faI drowned out at 5:30 D. m., and search was immediately male for the victims. One body was found Tn the alley way; one on tho first floor, occupied by Marx & Clsin, tailors; three deal bodies were found on the fourth floor, occupied by Davis, tailor; five were found on the fifth floor. All the corpses appeared to be those of men, and were burned beyond recognition. An uu- known man died while under the sur geon's hands at the White House saloon, No. 197 Bowery, m .king a total of fitteen dead.
 The injured, so far as known, are:
 Phillip Troit, aged thirty; fatally burned and injured internally; will die.
 Sir Michael Rubenhousc; arm broken and badly bruised.
 Ed. Mapastie, both arms and legs broken.
 Harris Bereschied, ankle br oken.
 The origin of the fire is unknown. The total loss, including 1,0)9 to the Peoples Theater. will not texceed Sl0.0oo.
 The scenes attending the fire were heart rending. Owing to the peculiar situation of the building, the firemen were unable to reach the people from the windows and prevent their jumping, and the coustrnc- ton of the place wal so faulty that it is doubtful if tho sufocation and cremation of tho inside victims could have heen pre- vented even if the firemen had been ablo to get to work earlier.
 Crowds of Polish Jews and people of all descriptions thronged into t'le Bow cry, screaming and weeping and greatly impeding the work of the pol lce and fire men. The lamentations uttered by rela- tives and friends, as the dead and wou1l- ed were brought out 10 tho street, were appaiing. The Injured were cared for ol the sidewalks until nmbulaucss from various hospitals arriv d, and the array of bleeding humanity was ghastly one
 The building had fire escapes, but the fire ran up the rear of the structure, cut ting off egress by the stairways. Soms of the victims might have escaped By way of the roof if the denss smoke had not overpowered them. It is doubtful, too, if they knew that there was hatchway there. The fire wa' probably caused by the upsetting of a can Of benzine.
 Mrs. Graft, who lived on the third floor. was about to become a mother. When the family were startled by the flames coming up through thD fl DOT, Mir. Graft caught up baby, and ealing to his two other children, Joseph and Cslia, to fol- low, rushed down stairs, hoping to return with help aud save the mo'h)r. Graft and tn, baby alone escaped. An hour later .he firemen found Mrs. Graft and the newly borh baby and Joseph and Celia all dead.
 Charles Forman, property man of the Peoples Thester, saved ma1v lives by breaking down a p1rtitior and throwing a ladder over the alley to the third story windows of the burning building, over which the occupants of that floor could pass. When they were all out Norman threw the ladder up to the fourth story and rescued many ihere. He says he was astonished to see the frantic people trv- ing to save their little property by throw ing it out of the windows while their lives were in danger. There was but mo- ment or two in which to work. The fierce heat soon made the ladder bridge use- less. He thinks the large loss of life is mainly due to the people being panic stricken,
 The following is list of the dead:
 Mrs. Adel, Graft, aged twenty eight, with her newborn babe; burned te death.
 Joseph Graft aged seven; ditto.
 Celia Graft, aged four; ditto.
 Philip Taloph, aged twenty-two; killei by jumping from sixth story; skull crushed.
 Henry Schwartz, tailor; suffocated.
 Unknown woman, and ten men all burned so as to be unrecognizable.
 These eleven bodies are at the morgue. The police have record of ten injured and two missing. The injured are:
 Arias Spennett.
 Bernard Rothmau.
 Philip Torlove.
 Michael Rubinoff
 Abraham Novolski.
 Edward Mapastic.
 Morris Brescheir.
 Nathan Loami.
 Ida Frink and woman named Sarah, last name unknown.
 All are tailors or tailoresses. The two women and Spennett will probably die. Soyae were injured by jumping, others from burns.
 The missing are Henry Prodigal and Benjamin Bernstein.
 The hospitals are besieged by Poland CTS inquiring for friends and relatives.
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 The German Press Angry.
 BERLIN, Aug. 3.-The German press is ...s..... I..a,,sa Of th, ,N,,I,I;aa fta. in, "a