The sun., 1890-07-23
FIRE ESCAPES UNFINISHED,
so EJE7H STORr TENANTS HAD 10 RE
TEkEN DOHS Sr LdDDLRS.

Mrs. MnoLie, PnrnIvtic. suRocnted In a
! Third Avenue Tenement go BlRIe In
SuHoIk Street Which VIII Receive the
Firo Mnrshnra Prompt Attention.
| A 1re that did about $500 damage TO tho
! nye.s,ory double tenement at 1871 Third ave-
nue. yesterday afternoon cost one woman her
/ life, md gavo 5000 citizens mn opportunity TO
see the life aavors OF Hook md adder IL
rescue nree persons from the 'op story. The
fiat caught fire in wool hin In the rear IT the
Cellar near tho elevaOr shaft. II was discov.
cred shortly before o'clock when It hal
reached the shaft.
Tailor james Freeman and his vile, and
.Tanitor Theodore lry and hi wife got out Of
the second.story windows ust as Tho encinee
came dashing ur. Smoke had cut of their re-
treat by tho staircase. They walked along The
coping ledge over c. d. Flats l!ouseiurnishing
store and climbed into tho windows OF the ad-
jonininG nat. Janitor Fry carried his two
children in his arms as lie creut along the
ledge. and the thrOng in the street below
cheered. The top floor wns all ahla2e In the
rear by this time. II was occupied by John
Mnckie. n bookkeerer Mnckie was down
town, and his wife. who was stricken with
paralysis last May, aud was helpless and their
two girls Edith AGED years, ard Nellie. ngei
years. and Maggie Nuty. nurse. were IN
the rooms. Mrs. Mackie was lying in bed. With
Nellie asleep beside hcr, when the nurse heard
the cracking OF tho iiames In The Kitchen
Nurse Nuty. who Is an Irish girl 2l years
old. gathered tho two frightened children In
her arms and ran to tho front window and
held the children so that tho lremen could SEQ
them Thin G. pudS Of smoke loated through
the window William O'Dricn. and Finn and
Sullivan OF Hook and Ladder l3, with half n
dozen others. raise the hiG extension ladder
thn ~ IVA ltf'1 hut a n
reach to The top window. nnd tEa lie savers
sci el n scaling ladder and scampered NJ.
who lives on t1e ,thirt toor Of the fat and
knnw that MIs Mnckie was helpiess, ran to the
Gn in was !he gh GafTay rs Is
tho connecting ladders hnNe never been put
ur. Sn r,lrr climbed upon tho railing and Ieap-
cd three feet into the Air and caught ho bot
tom of tho balcony above and clam cred upon
it. lIe made another ear and caught the tip
sash broke ont and n sheet Of Tame swept out
over his heal. bra'inG him back He lropGed
renched the street BY climbing over the stone
corNice of 1873.
He got 70 ne street in time to see Nurse
window ledge. O'Lrinn caught her opt O. the
nurse Prs and then M She Iii,e4 Edith on,
again free. Flames wer" lenpinG from the top
OF tie window when the nurse cmhed out
upon the window ledg" her hair and eye
:. Zig sheets OF fam" cut Of al access to Mrs:
to The rt e oHr Ey way " :" the roo to
her. Whom they bnrsi In thc panel tho woman woman
dad sT er aeg bdd 10 h"b tbe ope
OF A. II. Falbee next d or. where her, husband
found her when be get home At 81 o'c9ek:
iuto the cellar to fls:h. tho fire was dragged
out nearly uncopsciouS from smoke and was
HOSPITAL Tho d.mace was chiefly to platrs
furnishing store anu the Mackle fla. Water
ard smoke damneeI household goods belong
In n .avprnl tpplntS
Dennis Nyan. Ianit3r OF tho flve.s'ory teno
ment house ut 1o6 SuIolk street was sitting
In his kitchen Oh the second floor a. o'clock
and yead Fir"" Nj E,an ran in: Q The haiI
floor. occupied by Morris ". etterhaum. l,yan
H,i we're Il ali abla2e Tsrecieiy fierce, were tho
flames under tho stationary tu's, where pile
Of ga @ T0a %on a wheS yan "Ra Ws
a Kerosene can. The apartment seemed to tie
deserted. Ryan ran to the house OF Hook and
in n still alarm. Meanwhile Policeman Hcr-
bolsheimer had sent our an alarm and the fire
engines were close behind the hook and ladder
The fire, hnd spread rapidly II, the mean
is ia'' one Of 1--WE trnoment4 in row, When
Chiet Kehoe arrived lames had worked ther
VI hs hs ss rs s ana sp nYa yns
on the ton fo,r of l04. waa carried out Of the
house in faint lhe rames IN ,hc hallway
were fierce that the men had to rereat
several times. bur the n'e was mastered before
much damage md been done.
Mrs. Xette baum said that she and Eer two
children were away when tho fire occurred.
She had used no Re osens an had no lire OF
any sort in her rooms; The household effects
that Mrs. Zetrcrbanm's eldest child had pur-
chased two quarts o kero. enc oil the night he
fore from Abraham tnstoin, q grocer at no
md her mother aid she had gone away on
Monday night with her aunr: She denied that
she had purchased oil from Epstein or any one
else. Tho damage 10 the buld!n Mt LOG was
estimated to he 81 100 IDLY the tenants
suffered an equal loss. Tho Fire Marshal will
investigate.