Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-04
WHOLE NO. II, G38.
A TENEMENT HORROR.
FIFTEEN LIVES LOST AT A NEW
YORK FIRE.
Feek1le Leap From Upper Stories
"A Mothers Terrible Sacri-
flee for Her Children.
i,.eorA L. orsrATcHEs TO THE asoonD-uylor

afternoon. SIX more were burned so badl
that they wilf \ 'robably die, and were re
moved to various hospitals.
The hogse wast ramshackle affair hid
den in the middss OF the block, the onl,
entrance to.it being anarrow alleyway from
the Bowery. In gs building lived abou
$50 people. Each of the six doors wa,
occupied by asingIss family, the head o
which was tailor wila made clothing fol
a cheap Wholesale clc4sa ing house, and en-
Ployed from 70 to "a men, women ant
children, in addition te, his own family. in
making up clothing. VlA " were all Polish
Jews, and employers and a mploved worked
aud slept in the crowded RI Oms of thedir
tenement y
About 4:f5 O'CLOCK this afternoon. while
ali the occupants of the b uihiing were bus.
liy at work in the closing ifOnr5 preceding
the Sabbath eve, flames b.OAe out on the
Ioweghoor. The fire had, when discover, 4
already gained such keadHsay, Mat il was
in fu4 possession of the stairway. and
escape BY 1t seemed impossible. Many Of
the frightened inmats5' rNshed down
through the flames ana into the narrow
courtyard
WITH THEIR CLoTEE9. AEl NE
And their hands and bodies burned. six
OF them were so severely burned that thew
were taken to the hospital aud may die.
Ihere " ere e-escapes on the front and rear
OF the house-perpendicular7 iron ladders
running down the rear of the building
but before any of the inmates, had tried to
escape by them the flames had ascended
through the house and wers-reachipg the
front windows, so that descent by the fire.
escapes was impossible. One man. already
halt-burned 10 death, leaped from fifth
story. window and
FEEL MANGLED MAss.
OF flesh i'll the little court-yard. Others
jumped from secOnd-story windows and
escaped with bruises The enormous
crowds that had gathered shook With dread
and sympathy, as some of the, wounded
shrieked and others groaned with pain, or
ieeblyIneaned out in anguish
AWFUL SIGHTS.
One poor woman lay upon her back in
a little store in the Bowery with not ONLY
her clothing but her hair burned oil. i
seemed 2s II she must be desd. but a
slight upheaval of her bosom told that life
still remained. She was UNCONSCIOUS, and
a surgeon said she would not live 70 reach
the hospital.
Another young girl was delirioas with
pain. She was not so badly burned rs the
others, bnt'in mad jump from one of the
windows she had received internal INJURIES
and also cut terrible cash in the side of
herthead, from which the blood rushed
forth, giving her a CHASTITY appearance.
She rayed and screamed. and ha6s TO he
held by two attendants while her wounds
were being dressed
A. III. Sheldon, Manager OF the Peonle's
Iheater, on iirst discovering the fire, sent
out an alarm and the firemen responded.
but when they arrived The flames already
had complete possession of the house. and
nothing could be done To save it, and little
to save its inmates.
FATE OF MOTHER AND, HER
BABES.
Charles W. Norman, propertyman of The
Peoples Tbeater, with several of his com
rades ran to the rear of the theater, carry
ing small ladder, which they stretched
over to a window of the burning building.
A woman, with her hair and clothing al
ready ablsze, appeared at the window.
Norman called to her to cross over on the
ladder. She cried back that she could not
leave her' twn children. Norman tried 20
crcs- over uu The ladder, but the flames
AiiNF iliI NhtfV, anu ne could not save her.
'he eharred body of the mother
and her t"O children were found in the
building
Three mer, kuwevsr. nyailed themselves
nt The ladder aad CSC pet 10 the roof of The
lbeater..
INSIDE rsE CuNENEL HOUSE
When the ti7emen had at last drowned
the hhmts So thar they could enter the
house, they 'archel il aoor hy door as
they ascen2ed, aud Oh The ,hi'd Aoor they
found lhr burued bodies oi q man, 4
woman aui' Il boy
Oa lhr iogv!h floor hey Gund five
bptiies, 80 hedN bururi tia, Ii wts impos-
,ioie 'p t''l whttneF they were those of
men or women.
On the fifth floor no bodies were found.
but on the sixth floor five more bodies were
found and they also We're burned so that it
could not be told whether they were men
or women.
This made thirteen bodies found in the
building. Those of the men who leaped
from the Gfth-story window increased the
death list to fifteen, while il is feared
that the death of some, ii not all, of those
in the hospital will make the number still
greater.
Several OF the bodies were burned so
badly that they fell apart when removed,
and the iiremen were Obliged to lower
them from the windows in nets.
TIKI NAMES or THE DEAD,
AS fer as known, are Philip Talople, AZ
years old, who Jumped from the fifth floor;
Mrs. Adeia Gruft and her two children,
Joseph NJ. and Celia, 6 years old. She is
the woman who refused TO escape because
she would not desert her children. Her
husband escaped with an infant in his
arms, and was almost crazed with grief at
the loss of his wife and two other children.
The other bodies are at the Morgue,
awaiting identification.
COAL OIL STOVE THE cAUsE.
The fire started on the first floor, in the
apartment of Emma Stevenson, the jani-
tress, and was caused by the explosion of
coal-oil stove.
FURTHER LIST OF rHE VICTIMS.
LATEST. The list of killed, corrected to
midnight, is given herewith
Gruft-Adele, aged %, with her new
born babe, burned to death.
Gruft-Joseph, I years, burned TO death.
Gruft-Celia, years. burned TO death.
Tatopp-Philip, 70 years, killed by jump
ing from the sixth story.
Schwartz-Henry, tailor, suffocated on
fourth floor.
Woman (unknown) at the Morgue,
burned beyond recognition.
chneider-Abraham, 36 years, burned
to death.
Weinberg, burned almost be-
yond recognition.
Ten men at the inorgue, burned beyond
recognition.
THE IE1URED.
Michael Rubonhoff and Harris Rubon-
hof, father and son. The former will re-
cover, and the latter will die. These two
were reported missing in the early report.
Spennet Asiars, Russian tailor, q
years old, seriously burned, likely to die.
Rotham = Bernard, Russian tailor, q
years old and married seriously burned.
Observation-Disclosures, a Polish tailor, %
years and single; seriously burned.
Sarah-A tailoress, single, 10 years; seri-
ously burned and likely to die.
Frank-Ida, Russian tailoress, single,
fractured skull from fall, and likely to die.
Norisky-Abraham, Russian tailor,
slightly injured by fall.
Mapostie-El Edward, a Russian tailor. in
jured about the limbs by jumping from
the third story.
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