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

many saved themselves by jumping across the
court to the roof Of the tcncment-house few feet
away Several of them were hurt, but most OF
them not at all seriously, and they were taken
home by their friends.
All the people rescued were crazy, not only with
fear, but for the loss Of their few goods Ono
girl who was pulled into Schneider's place was
wild, and she had TO be held to prevent her from
jumping out of the window
The flames followed the operatives to the
back windows and shortly it became so
hot that II. drove the rescuers in the adjoining
building from their positions Schneider thought
fully closed the iron door and shut the fire on
I'm this direction. As il was. the heat WAS 80
intense that by the time the fremen arrived, the
heavy iron door was heated white, and finally
burst open. On the floor above number were
taken out in the same way One OF the workmen
tried to open the iron door, but II was fastened
so securely that he could not do 1t at inst
In his excitement and efforts to open the door
he burned his hand badly. He, too helped to
pull q number from the burning factory to safety,
despite his bleeding hand But he was shortly
driven from his place by the smoke, flames and
extreme heat, closing the door after him.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
While the Hrement were hard at work getting
the flames under control there was talk Of
had been sent out, and Chief Shay soon had
enough engines to make short work OF bigger
fire. Before p. m. the fire was out and the
flrcmen began search Of the ruins. They found
the bodies Of ten men, two women and two
children in the building. Meanwhile q man
and q woman had died in Simpsons pawn-shop
No. | 95 Bowcry, after escaping from the burning
house, and other victims had been carried away
dying to the hospitals.
Following is list Of the dead and 1n)ured'
DEAD.
GRuET AzELIA seven Of No Sr9d Is LuslSw
milton. She was employed in the factory.
CELIA daughter nS sGuSs O5 tsss sSsnsa G
crisp
GRUFT., JOE age four, Of Azeia Grufs; also
LEVINE EATaAN age sS,ywo Of Nh No q so piv,Sn %n:
nS5iet Sunea to a aeaS dS H0'su' O' MS '0H marry
MARES Sc b,S dSc No. 1s ia @ss 9r 4
e SDr@ BURIED o." ''' '"''' "'''' ''''N anu
taar S is found hs
floor.
sT;Dsa sn age Artsr of No. OF Ludlow
sPUNps, AsIAs, age twentyse seven lived in tenement
and had been IN this eon seven
He was taken 70 the GOpyelnerr Hospital by his wife,
suffering from burns and bruises, and died at 80.
Besides these, eight other bodies brought the
morguc, but not identified. They found on
the ffth and sixth floors Of the building On ore
found s2s In money a Louisiana lottery ticket and
another IS piece and pennies The others
without anything By which they could be Identified
INJURED
FRANK, IDA age fourteen. No. 81 chrystie St fell
from the second floor and received compound fracture
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and
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PLENTY OF WORK FOR THE SURGEONS.
Ambulances from five of the city hospitals were
called into the Bowery by a general alarm as soon
as the fircmen understood that there had been in
jury and loss Of life. The surgeons who arrived
with the ambulances found plenty Of work await
ing them IN Simpsons pawn shop at No. 1875 and
in K. ii. Luthin's drug store at No. 19l. Police
man Reap had seen tailor running out of the
alley with his clothes ablazc and had torn of the
mans garments in the street. In the drug store
mos6 shocking appearance. The burned flesh on
his hands, face and legs peeling OFF in chunks
and he seemed to be in unspeaSable agony. He
was unable 10 tell his name and the surgeons
thought he was dying when they placed him i'd an
ambulance
BY his side in the drug store foc few minutes
was Michael Rubenstcin, of No 36 EsseX-st. who
also had been burned seriously on his face, hands
Bernard Ratbman, of No 145 Forsyth-st.
walked about in the drug store waving his
burned hands and crying with pain
In simpsons shop "a woman who had been
burned seriously was shrielling at intervals Near
her, on the hoor a woman who had been hurt
by a fall and was senselcsS. The surgeons thought
She was dying The body of a man who had died
from shocking burns after making his way out
through the alley lay in the rear Of the shop.
Surgeons were applying oiled bandages TO n
tailor who had been burned pretty much all over
his body.
Abraham Nepaslza, a tailor who said he lived
in the burned building, ran about on the sidewalk
and bewailed the loss of his property. His face
had been schorched and his right hand had been
cut by fall while he was making his escape.
lie refused to 60 to hospital
BEGINNING TO SEARCH FOR BODIES
Shortly before D. m. the firemen were able to
enter the burned house, and search for bodies
On the third floor, at the Bowery end Of the
building they came across the corpses of woman
and two children. Janitor Carter. of the Peoples
Theatre, gave the fremen some pieces Of carpet
in which the bodies were wrapped before they
were carried over ladder to the theatre roof.
Then more pieces of ca,pet were wanted and tho
bodies OF five men were carried out the same way.
All of the bodies had been burned to a crisp dis.
torted and twisted until they looked more like
blackened pieces of timber than like the forms
OF men, women, and children.
Police Inspector Williams, who had strong
force OF men present 10 keep back the crowds of
curosty-seellers said that he had witnessed
more horrible spectacle than that presented by
the bodies as they were removed from the ruins
of he N ho
roof OF the white House. and carried down
through that building: One body, wrapped in
a carpet, was laid on the sidewalk in the Bowery
to wait for the arrival OF the dead wagon. The
bodies that were found in the back end of the
building were taken out with great difficulty.
There were five Of them. four men and one woman
Chrystie-st. the scene of the fire was by this
time fairly packed with men. women, and chill
drcn, who were kept away from the dead wagon