Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-04
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. NO ESCAPE POSSIBLE. Seventeen Perish In A Death
 Trap Tenement. FRENCH SPOLIATI0N CLAIMS Mir. Longs Eloquent Appeal
 In The House. MURDERER MAxWELL'S RESPITE. The British Government
 InterpOses
MURDERER MAxWELL'S RESPITE.
CAUGHT A DEATH TRAP.

CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP. Another Fearful Tenement HOase Fire
 I'm New YOrk-Seventeen Persons
 PerIsh-FIre Escapes Useless.
 NEW YoRK, August 3.-Seventeen persons lost their lives by 8 fire in Bowery tene- ment house this afternoon, and number of others who were injured by jumping from windows were probably fatally hurt. The fire was caused by the upsetting of kerosene stove in the rooms of Emma Stevenson, the janitress.
 The building was g six story death trap, located in the rear of the Peoples Theater in the center of the block bounded by the Bow cry, Rivington, Christie and Delaney streets, and was unapproaehable save by an alleyway scarcely three feet wide and a hundred feet deep. Several of the floors were used as tailoring shops by four different firms who employed nearly 100 men and women in the manufacture of cloaks. All of the employees were Polish Jews. The building, which was filled with indammable material, burned 6ercely and rapidly and by the time the fire men reached the scene it was roaring fur mace. Back of the building is narrow court
 
 Tagging. All roads of escape being cut of many of the afrighted inmates rushed to the windows and jumped from the third and fourth stories to the narrow pen below only to receive broken limbs or heads. Many were overcome by the smoke before the fire reached them and burned their bodies to a crisp. The fire, which lasted little over an hour, was drowned out at 5:3O D. m. and a search was immediately made for the vic- tims. One dead body was found in the alley way; on the third floor, occupied by Marx 6 Klein, tailors, were the bodies of man, wo- man and boy; on the fourth floor, occupied by Davis, tailor, five unrecognized bodies, and on the fifth floor, occupied by H. Levine, coat maker, five more. All were burned be- yond recognition.
 An unknown man died while under the surgeons hands in the White House saloon at 197 Bowery. The building had fire es- capes, but the fire ran up the rear of the structure, cutting off egress by these as we'll as by the stairways. Some of the victims might have escaped by way of the roof if the dense smoke had not overpowered them. It is doubtful too if they knew that there was 6 hatehway there. Mrs. Graft, who lived on the third floor was about to become mother when the family were startled by the flames coming up through the floor. MT. Graft caught up his youngest child and calling his two other chiIdred Joseph and Celia to fol-
 
 and save the mother. Graft and the baby alone escaped. An hour later the fremen found Mrs. Graft with the newly born babe and Joseph and Celia all dead.
 The following is list of the dead: Mrs. Adel Graf, aged 28, with her new born babe. burned to death; Joseph Graft, aged 7,burned to death; Celia Graft, aged 4, burned to death; Philip Taloph, aged 22, killed by jumping from sixth story; Henry Schwartz, tailor, ,suf- located, and an unknown woman and ten men, all burned beyond recognition. The police have 8 record of ten injured and two missing. The injured are as follows: Bernard Rothman, Philip Tolorve, Michael Rubinoff. Abraham Navotsky, Edward Napestic, Morris Brescheir, Nathan Leamie, Ida Frank and a woman named Sarah, last name unlearned. All are tailors or addresses. The two women and Spennett will probably die. Some were injured by jumping and others from burns. The missing are Henry Prodigal and Benja- min Bernstein.
 The hospitals are besieged by Polandsrs inquiring for friends and relatives. The total loss on property, including $1 1000 dam $i0, ,OOO.
 Charles Norman, property man of the Peo- ple's Theater, saved many lives by breaking down partition on top of the theater and throwing ladder over the alley to the third story windows of the burning building, over which the occupants of that foor could pass. When they were all out Norman threw the ladder up to the fourth story and rescued many there. He says he was astonished to see the frantic people trying to save their ht- tie property by throwing it out of the win dows while their lives were in danger, as there was but Q moment or two in which to work. He thinks the large loss of life is mainly due to the people be- ina panic stricken. The scenes at- tending the fire were hesrtrending, owing to the peculiar situation of the build ing the frsmen were unable to reach the peo- pie at the windows and prevent their jump ing, and the construction of the place was so faulty that it is doubtful if the suffocation and cremation of the inside victims could have been prevented even if the fremen had been able to get to work earlier. Crowds of Polish Jews and people of all descriptions thronged into the Bowery screaming and weeping and greatly impeded the work of the police and fremen. The injured were cared for on the sidewalk until ambulances from the various hospitals arrived, and the array of bleeding, maimed and burned hu- manity was ghastly one.
 Asias Ferret died at Bellevue hospital to- night. Additional reports of the missing in- mates have been made as follows: Harris Ru- benof, Philip Rubenoff and Jacob Fineberg.
 The bodies of Abraham Schneider and Solomon Weinberg have been identified at the naorgue. Michael and Harris Rubsnoff have been found at the hospitals. Harris is fatally injured. The girl Sarah is dying.