The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10
ATENEMENT HORROR.

4 crbwded New York Tenement House
TcS rlycd by Fire Eighteen Persons
I;urned to Des TIA and Many Injured.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Eighs seen people
We're lHrned 10 death in a six story brick
building ia the rear of No. 1877 Bowery
Yesterday afternoon. Six more, burned
50 sJally that they viii probably die, were
removed TO various hospitals.
The house was a ramshackle affair, hid
dea in the middle of the block, tho only
entrance TO it being narrow alley from
the Bowcry. IN front of it was a four
story building on the first floor of which
was saloon called 1.-The White House."
Adjoining this is Harry Miners Peoples
Theater.
In the rear of the burned building were
two houses hemming it in on the Christie.
street side. In this cagedrin building
lived about $50 people. Each of the six
floors WAS occupied by a single family, the
head Of which was a tailor who made
clothing for the cheap Wholesale clothing
houses, and employed from fifteen to
twenty men, women and children in addi-
lion to his own family, in making up the
clothing. They were all Polish Jews, and
employer and employed worked, ate and
slept in The crowded rooms of the dingYr
tenement.
At 4:15 O'Clock in the afternoon, while
ali the occupants of the building were
DlSAlN at NOIk III II6 CtOSlIR nOuIS DIECeu~
ing their Sabbath eve, flames broke out on
tire lower floor The fire had, when dis
covered, already gained such headway
tnat it was in full possession of the stat
way and escape by it seemed impossiblO.
A stout German woman rushed frantic
ally into the street wringing her hands and
screaming out 'BIine Gott, Mine Gott dose
peoples are burning up" This was start
/ ling reminder that lives were in peril and
aTac Tod q ra-
I serve were called out and in short order
100 blue coats in charge of Inspector
| Williams were on hand, ready to assist the
hremen.
Alarm after alarm was sent out for am
bulances, and in a very little while sur
geOns rolled in from st. Vincent, Chambers
street, Bellevue and New. York hospitals,
while the department of charity and corr
rections sent two of their ambulances
Their services were badly needed. Many
of the frightened inmates rushed down
through the flames and escaped to the mar
row court yard with clothes ablaze and
hands and bodies burned. Six of them
were so badly burned that they were taken
to the hospital and may die. There were
escapes on the front and rear of the house,
perpendicular iron ladders running down
the front and rear of the building, but be-
fore any of the inmates had tried to escape
by them the flames had assembled through
the house and were reaching through the
windows, so that descent by the fire es-
capes was impossible. One man, already
half burned to DEATH leaped from a fifth
story window, and fell mangled mass of
flesh in the little court yard. Others
jumped from the second story windows
and escaped with bruises.
Charles w. Norman, property man of the
Peoples Theater, with several of his COM
rades, ran to the roof of the theater carry
ing a small ladder, which they stretched
over to ayvindow of the burning building.
A woman with her hair and clothing al
ready ablaze appeared at the window, and
Norman called to her to cross over on the
ladder. She cried back that she could not
leave her two children. Norman tried to
cross over on the ladder, but the flames
drove him back and he could not save her.
Afterwards the charred bodies of the
mother and two children were found in the
building. Three men, however, availed
themselves of the ladder and escaped to the
roof of the theater.
When the fremen had at last drowned
the flames so that they could enter the
house they searched floor by floor
as they ascended, and the
third floor they found the dead
bodies of a man, woman and boy On
the fourth floor they found five bodies so
badly burned that it was impossible to tell
whether they were those of men or
women. On the fifth floor no bodies were
found, but on the sixth five more bodies
were found, and they also were burned so
that it could not be told whether they were
j the bodies of men or women. This made
j thirteen bodies found in the building.
| That of the man who leaped from the fifth
story window increased the death list to
fourteen, while it is feared that the death
! of some, if not all, of those in the hOspi-
| tails win make this number greater.
! The death list, as corrected is as follows
| Adef Gruft, aged %, with her new born
babe, burned to death; Joseph Gruft,
wears, burned to death; Celia GTuft,
! years, burnedsto death; Philip LaloP, p
years, killed by jumping from sixth story
Henry Schwartz, tailor, suffocated or
fourth floor; woman, unknown, at morgue
burned beyond recognition; Abraham
SCHNEIDER, 36 years, burned to death
Solomon Weinberg, burned almost beyond
recognition; ten bodies at morgue, burned
beyond recognition.
| Iniured-Miohael Reubenhof and Har-
/ ris Reubenhoff, father and son; the former
will rec over, the latter win die. Asarias
Sonnetz, Russian tailor, p years old, Sc
| riously burned, likely to die. Bernard
Bethman, Russian tailor, 50 years, mar
ried; seriously burned Phillip TorrellO, q
wears old, single; seriously burned. Mich
Olas Reunef, single, "a years old; serious
burns about body. Sarah -, tailoress
single, 10 years old; serious burns, likely
to die. Ida Frank, Russian tailoress, sin
gle; fractured skull from falling, likely tC
die. Vovolsky, Abraham, Russian tailor
slightly injured by a fall. Mapostic
Edward, Russian tailor; injured abou
limbs by jumping from third story. Bris
cheir, Morris, Pole tailor; broke leg by jump
ing from third story. Leannie, Nathan, Rus
sian tailor, Oyearss burned about the body
Yellow Fever.