The evening world., 1890-03-10
CUT OFF,.
Another Scene Of Panic at q Ludlow
Stree! Fro
A Baby Thrown from the Second
Floor Caught by a Fireman.
ShiverIng Tenants Crowd the Roof
Shrieking for Help.

Ludlow street awoke once more In the
early morning 10 the cry OF fire. 1t came
from familiar corner, No. 1877. q human
beehive. six stories high and sheltering
thirty.two families in Its front and rear
buildings. tfs
Less than two years ago the building
was rayaged and number of people
burned, but none were killed.
It has since been provided with every
means of escape for its teeming popula-
ton. There are fre-escapes in front and
rear, and iron bridges span the ten-feet
wide yard between the two buildings.
Between the two towering structures the
yard is little less than big chimney.
The tenement stands alone. On one
side there is an alley leading to q rear
stable; on the other three-story build
ing 139, the roof of which 10 fully thirty
Ave feet below the top Of the big bar
racks.
Policeman Baker found j. Salzer's flsh
store in the basement, on fire at $50
o'clock this morning. It soon spread TO
Harris Bleak's notion store and Elias
Weinstein's grocery on the ground floor.
Baker gave the alarm that sent the fire.
men scurrying towards the spot and
yelled fire until he was hoarse.
Halls and starwsys were hlled with
smoke, and tenants were forced TO take
put on any clothing. The iron ladders
became choked at once. Around their
lower end the flames began to play.
The fleeing tenants were driven 20 the
rear. only to find the fire roaring up
there as through real chimney, making
descent impossible.
second floor escape into the arms ofa
fireman, who caught it flying, and lowered
his wife and three older children to the
street with q rope.
The fifty tenants in the rear building
were OF disadvantage: Unable to reach
the street they, rushed to the roof md
front building who came over the iron
bridges.
They were safe for the moment. but the
flames roared up the fire-escapes, louder
each moment. There was no other way
of escape. Strung along the coping In
an agitaied, despainring @ Line. me- men s!.aa I'D
were borne out over the neighborhood
for blocks and found sympathetic echoes
in o thousand windows lined with spec
tators unable TO assist them.
The most desperate climbed over the
edge of the roof and made ready TO jump.
The roof of l39 was the full height Of 9
thres-story house below.
Undertaken p. j. Hoellerer. who iives
there, was busy with his men leading out
thirty seven horses from the rear stalls.
He left them TO their fate, and. running
on his own roof with his men, shouted 10
the lmperilled tenants not to jump.
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ladders. BY the time they had raised one
long enough from the undertakerss Foof
to reach the top of the burning front
tenement, the iron bridge that gpanned
the yard groaned under the sudden rush
of many feet.
The fremen. reinforced by extra COM
panies, sent on q second alarm call,
brought the tenants down safe.
A single family had been left. A. Gold
stein. his wife and childrep-Louis. aged
four years; Fanny. aged three years. and
Jacob, the baby-were the last to quit
their rooms on the second fioor Of the
front building.
The stairs were impossible. and carry
ing their children the father and mother
CROPPED their way 10 the rear hre-escape.
They reached 1t only 10 and desesnk
there even more impossible than b. III
hallway.
Blinded and smothered they dropped %
the balcony. Their cries were heard
below. and Firemen Wilkenson. GaIney
and Flynn, of Hook and Ladder Com-
pany IL. CROPPED their way through the
utter darkness following the sound.
They reached the pertaining family just
in time.
The children had scarce q stitch Of
clothing on. They were more than half
sniothsred. but recovered with their
parents when taken into the street.
The whole damage by the fire was seafee
$4,000. No one knows how ID broke out.