The sun., 1888-08-04

thirty people, crossed the ladder and went
down through the theatre to the street,
tinally the people NJ the windows all disap.
% heH "a ddr is 9saTS Tss pusd
and Norman gave his attention to saving the
theatre.
GETTING THE FIRE OUT.
The flre evidently started in the second floor
oi the tenoment Assistant Fire Marshal Frank
says that he thinks IT started IN the rear OF the
Grul,. who lived on thc third floor says says, that ha
;ho hre came up into his aEartments IRON pc
down down. into tot their % room rom above. OH stoves
we're used throughout the building to heat IN the
Sry il that iSr one Of these exploded. Every one
seems 10 have noticed the fire st the same
Tho he building. Some managed. TO get down by
tho fire escape. some climbed 70 the adjoining
oot some gmPod 9 oOr % U te S f9 tb s,rvv yEfs
The t6sir sJy ate a." Wien Wien GRiei MsGi and the bremen
got there. In answer to the call, they say, the
Sight was such as they never saw before. As
they looked down from the adjoining roofs, the
court yards were roaring furnaces. and the peo-
mmplorine m % aid. With ali their terror they were
bent sE their SnH 'hTsw
The lower hatchway had long been burned
away and was useless TO think sS Of esGapnE tms,E
way through tho fire to the Bowery.
Tho people who did escanes there were SO 80
count S9 tVT' q what had had happened @ P6iE Turlove
who got safely on the root OF the building next
lower down tho Bowery. was SO crazy & that t,, he
burned. Harris Wolf Jumped, to the Bowery.
too. He. was not burned and got Oh with
Ciiei Mctiill sent out three alarms immedi;
etely, upon getting to the FIRE and hurry Gall
for all the ambulances in the city. The fire.
from bellevue, Gouverneur, ST. Vincent's and
got s there here the White faces at the windows Of the
Tenement had dsapp,sared and It was Vas useless h,ss
nt SAID ID Sn S Ee haa s ner tss Ts es e
rapidly il this was the CO 2, It was the, case.
the fremen got dozen streams Of water play.
adjournns adj nj Buildings. The, ire was easily, con.
fined to the tenement In which 1t started. the
tenement across the eight-toot court yard
wore burned out. Tho roof Of the Peoples
Theatre was burning in lively. way at one
ssous s suf as on
drenched with water when, the, fire was out.
and then the ilremen. with their hearts @ sinking m.
within them, entered the building TO look Tor
the burned bodies.
LOWERING THE DEAD TO THEIR coFrINs
The tall chimney.like tenement was SO inac-
possible that to get out the dead the firemen on
Chrystie street and on the roof Of the parlor Of
the theatre pissed nets and rolls OF CARPET.
bremen in the burned building Those who
were searching for tho dead there wrapped the
in h C ana sss of MIs hdsa Ss
Gruft and her two children, oseph. aged 2. and
Zimial. 4 years old. were found burned almost
floor and were deposited in three, bundles on
the roof Of the Peoples Theatre. Five corpses
bS 1aS Sixth Rhes ss ten e lifted sss
ladder reaching from the sixth floor to the roof
Of the tenement facing toward Ghrystie street.
the Bowery and tie, other in thrystie street.
the rear Of i65 Chrystie street, and the ten
bodies on the roof of the tenement were lower.
ed by tackle arranged by the tiremen down to
wagon outside; All the dead that were carried q,
Tho dead wagon in the Bowery took away the
bodies of Mrs. Gruit and her two children. Mrs.
Grult was about to become a mother; and her
fright brought on premature labor. Her con-
dition had prevented her from making any
effort to save her life.
Coroner Npgent came upon the scene as the
bodies we're being lowered from the Chrystie
street tenement TO the collins: A great crowd
was assembled in Chrystie street. The, roofs
OF the adjoining tenementS were covered with
people while the dead were lowered. One body
was terribly burned that u fireman carried
tie and started to come down the stairs Of the
tenement with 1t. but upon reaching the third
cert hail. and tho body was lowered from there
in q net AT first tho colfins, as they were car
riod into the court ynrd. were piled one on top
That's horrible way to do," said a man,
gazing on tho rapidly ccumuatlng pile Of cof-
The men who were doing the work took his
advice, and the collins were strung along in
on either sde OF the vt
They undertook to raise q coffin to the roof.
where the bodies lay. The coffin had as.
that was around it slipped and the coffin
iell: It hit an old gray-headed man
@ es ha s and his eoas OF Hs ssS fs
The coffin in their arms. cry went up from
hundred ihroats as he coffin slipped from the
NO more Of thar" said one OF Capt. Gas;
sdys detectives; leave the &pi s9fns he here and
came down in nets women in tenement win
dows and on roofs moaned; There was wall
ing on every hand as tho bodies were laid In
doad wagon.
ATTENDING TO THE INJURED
Most of the injured persons were treated on
the spot by AMBULANCE surgeons from the New
York, ST. Vincents, Bellevue. Chambers and
had been burned almost to a crisp but were
still alive, were taken to Gouyerneur Hospital.
sian. who lives with his wife at I46 Forsyth
Easb baSa p ~ 81 wera Sd
burned from head to foot. They were aftor-
ward sent to Bellevue Hospital. Asias spunde.
II fussian tailor OF Is Ludlow street, was 80
tterrlpiy burned Tint he died at Gouyerneur
ing 10 the hospital at l0h last night. and was
told that she could not see her husband until
to-day. as she would disturb tho patients In
the wards. But one Of the unfortunatss was
Ht st. Vincents Hospital last night. This was
Ida Frank, a little girl Of "A, who lives with her
father ut 81 0hrystie street. She had jumped
down two flights of stairs and fractured her
skull. She will probably die. Edward Napostic,
who lived at 1877 Bowery fell four stories and
miraculously escaped with lacerated wounds
on his arms and hands, which were dressed at
st. Vnccn.'s Hospital.
Before the dead were got out Hyman Gruft
appeared on the Bowery with his little boy on
his arm. He was nearly frantic with excite
ment. and went everywhere looking for his
wife and his two other children. He said that
his tailor shop was on the third floor OF the
factory. He was standing near window over
looking the " hite House pool room when the
fire broke through the floor under his feet. He
grabbed UP his boy and took him down the
iron stairway TO the court yard, He put him
sayo his wife and children. whom he
had left on tho opposite side Of
the shop Before he had assembled many
steps the llre burst through the building and
that his wife and two, children had been taken