New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-04

death trap above they could frantic men aud
ing like wild beasts. One girl Jumped from the rood'
four stories, 10 the top Of the tenement house.
Another and then another took that forlon chanoe
for lfe The first broke her leg, and was carried
down the ladder Men fighting TO get over tho
high iron fcnce that separates tho burned building
from the adjoining tailoring establishments women
were flying hither and thithcr amid the names ana
smoke and their screams were hcartrending' some
Of the men got over the fence, but the women could
not. One girl caught her dress on a circular iron
piece and burned there. for all the witnesses knew
OBSERVATIONS OF A NEIGuBoR.
Abram Schneider, who has tailoring shop on the
third floor of the building at No. 1913 Chrystle ST.,
and which adions the burned structure, told how he
smeued smoke. He walked to the further end OF his
floor Heavens! boys" he exclaimed there's fire.
In five Minutes he added " the building was In
flames. / looked into tho courtyard The buildings
tower up six seven stories, and Win simpsons
make little courtyard. The flames were pouring out
of the windows in sheets. Men and women were
screaming, passing by the windows like wild beasts
Suddenly woman her dress in flames, jumped from
the third floor She struck limo and 1t broke her
fall Another woman cast herself from the wlndow
and next two men, A man hanging from the
sill of the window the seventh floor His clothes
were burning and his head was going from side TO
side He vanly strove TO cling, but his hands
refused TO clutch. lie fell and his body was dashed
to pieces l could look no longer and shouted For
Gods sake the windows We wrenched open the
window which looks into the burned building and
helped men and women In by twos, perhaps twenty
five.
But the heat drove US back We had to shut the
window TO the building. Then we rushed to the
roof Some had climbed over the fenco, but the
women could not get over How we struggled to tear
the fence down. Five to dozen people were literally
roasted before our eyes. Tho men nearly battered
themselves in pieces against the fence. Men and
curled up into charred masses before our eyes,
and all the time we were poweress.'
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES IN THE BUILDING.
poor man who said his was Marboe was
hardly able to relate his frlghtful experience. Ilo
was at work on the third floor There fifty
people On his floor The girls at the windows at the
rear were smiling at some young fellows across the
way. Suddenly there confused nose from
below followed by shouts and screams and then smoke
poured up the narrow stairway. Next Markoe re-
members that be was carried hther and thither In
mad, struggling mass of humanity. Some rushed for
the roof others packed the rckety starways, trying
TO got down.
People were tramplcd under foot, everybody was
insane with fear The fierce flames drove some OF
those on the second floor to the stars Back all
rushed for the roof but they were met by those who
had gone before and forced back. Seven or eight
men and women were speedily overcome by the flames
One Isaacs screamed The Window He had worked
for Ablam Schneider and remembered the window
few persons ran to the windows forgetting that the
fro escapes had been removed month ago. But
the window opened in Schneder's place and tho
| struggling people passed through
A man by the name of Marks fought his way down
TO the second floor from the third and thence climbed
down by the freescape. His brother Joseph worked
| on the same floor with him. They became separated
! and Marks inqulrlng pitfuly from everybody
whether Joscphs body had been found. No one could
/ tubif In
the frcmcn were lowering the charred remains from
! the top Of the roof, In nets. Tho bodies were so
fearully roasted that the iremcn had TO use hooks
| One womans body dropped to heavily ON tho
edge OF the roof aud the head split open
Half a dozen pae-faced men told reporter how
| they lad saved their lives. They were working on
the third floor and sat together. They were quick
to act when the given and m body forced
their way the stairs the majority of people being
at the other end of the They could not recol-
lect how they got down the fre-escape.
A bartender in a neighboring gn-mill said that he
WAS flirting with some Of the girls who sat In the
| back part Of the burned building He went away
for Ave minutes and when he returned he saw flames
shooting from the top OF the budns, ana people
= II the men" he said. chad helped the women, they
| could have climbed the fence, but as 1t was
when the men were over they rushed Oh. shouting
ayes. said his sister q and those poor women
were screaming and waling like canaries roasted In
| a cage"
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN THE NElGHBohhooD'
The frantic shtehs of the Inmates OF the burning
building, the Of the fire. and the knowledge
that friends and relatives were death drove almost
crazy the people in the ndghboring buildings and
| they swarmed in droves to the roofs and
windows of houses at hand They
tore up the passageways that lead to the fac
tory from the Chryste-st side and tried to get into
the building only being driven back by the crush of
people pouring out and the heat and smoke from tho
fire.
Others CLING IN positions on roofs and at windows
There were men, and children, and they added
their cries the sfeks and OF perishing and
panc-crazed people in the building 1t not until
the police arrived and drove back the outsiders that
the fICncn could do good work for thew swaImed
I'm the court ward like rats and could not be moved
Women ravcd and tore their hair. and little children
screamed. while men, dirty and filthy looking.
wild as tho women. They ran from place TO place.
not mindIng the pushing and iostlng by fremen, who
tried TO get them out Of the way