The sun., 1888-01-28
LIVES GALLANTLY SAVED OUT OF A
FIERCE TENEMENT FIRE


floor Of the building
Yesterday afternoon, about five minutes be-
fore o'clock. while he was away, fire started
In the cellar. The place was packed with boxes
and barrels OF whiskey and oil and loose pack
ing stun and straw The flames spread all
over the goods and roared up the elevator shaft,
which ran to the fifth story alongside OF the
stairway Flames burst from tho cellar and
store windows, and in less than minute later
from the corner windows Of the top story. Not
bit OF fire or Of smoke came during those
few moments from the intermediate floors.
The people from the four lower floors got out
by the staircase where they could. and some Of
them climbed from the second-story windows
to tho awnings over tho store and dropped
down that way. In fvs minutes there was
crowd OF people in the street from the sur.
rounding houses and mob Of children from
the school In the same block.
Twenty-three Engine was first on hand. and
got tho hydrant on the west side Of Tenth ave.
nue., Just above Fifty-seventh street Driver
John ]. Price had no sooner jumped from his
engine than he heard that there was woman
shut up, BY the fire IN her rooms on THO nth
dt9rs dons such thinss before is''ue nef no nAa
sEorna Ss E'HssvsHssh nth street
RaTsy WAS pourins ri out blaeE sheF sitting Il only
stopped when the flames took their turn In
sticking their hot tongues out from the throats
hS Shs1 m veas ne9{ deor and
Before r he he a. appeared on the roof there came
cry for help. and there at the top corner window
rh hs fss s %s.s
splitting from the windows beneath her and
from other windows op her own moor At II.
and spread them on the sidewalk at thv cor
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that the woman would jump.
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hoarse voice was heard telling the woman to
the Martha. Every fireman in Twenty-three
So
WE BateSsi is Christian Weiss. just in his 2oth
run ' with as. He has passion for fires, and he
knows lots about them. and he wants to be
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hunting, for something. They found it1-s
clothes line; Price leaned over the ,cornicee
smoke the silent crowd below watched him
drop tho doubled rope to the woman at the
boas s to her. rSps
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the driver, yelled to her to fasten it under her
in closer and tighter. She tied the rope about
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the ns sndoy Sa epped
The crowd gazed upward intent and STILL
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entirely for a moment from the view Of those
on the street. On the streets below the men e
sorniee ] ii The crowd saw i Slip @ once; % but the the
tlremen recovered their grip, and at last they
1901. Then, again, tbe burden seemed to ial
from them: But Price caught the yomap's
ss sna we sa hs ed Sh s4 soo and pull he
ali The noise, oi tie drs Price carried the
load for him, after his e.ertions. over the long
roof Of the burning building up to the roof q
when Price and Weiss came down TO the street
and wh0 them s
some ono came for Price. and took him up to
the room where the woman had recovered her
and asked him his name She was Mrs. Sarah
Keator,, She had been alone in the rooms, her
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hailed the giri. who was beside herself with
Teach her To an up he Soua
rack IL front ot the side
he got there ali the same, and stserIns himssi
reached Ihe window where the girl was crouch
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glad to get it In her arms. The glrl who had 4
was Mary Leonard, Duxom Irish lass, with
rosy cheeks that were awfully pale as she
waited for Tobin to get back. He got there,
and taking her arm. helped her along the WIN
dow cornice and the n top Of the butchers rack
both disappeared. Mary was the nurse OF Mrs.
McMahon's children. She lost all her clothes
except those on her and $3.50. all the money
she had In the world.
Eleven firemen were scattered over tho third
floor OF the Martha, with hose and axes, when
the water tank fell and broke through to the
they jumped fSr the windows ba spd grsspsd the
pany IL. was caught and thrown down with the
hoor. He fell into what seemed an inverted
through the windows the fall OF the door and
they sent calls for four ambulances. feeling
sure that Ave or six men wero buried In the
clam bered down ali right. Firsmen William
Kennedy and Theodore McAuliife OF 2s, dived
through the smoke and fire to get out Powers
They Souldn,t got him and came back With
nedy was fixed up and sent home. MoAuliffe
was fixed up, too. but he wrapped cloths around
his burned head and kept at work.
When these men came out William @. Clark
of Inevitable 90 ran into the building and
dragged Powers out Clark was burned badly