New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-19
CONC BACK FIERY DEATH
FATAL FIRE IN A BREWERS STABLES.
TWO MEN TRY TO RESCUE TWELVE HORSES AND
PERISH WITH THE ANIMALS-w1L
FULLY HEADsn'EONG.

FULLY HEADsnToNG.
Two men lost their lives. two others were burned
Seriously a dozen horses were killed and property
worth SOS 900 destroyed by fire In Nalentin
Ioewcr,s stables at Nos. $50 TO 534 West Forty first
st., yesterday morning. Inc men WHO oeo III inc
flames were
Conrad IIosbach. forty years old. the foreman IN
.barcc ~ the stables, who lived with his wife and
nine children on upper floor Of the tenement house.
No $40 West Forty first st. lie dsObcycd the remen
and went into the stables to horses after
the flames had spread through the buildings
Fritz Tschculin. an apprentice In Loewers brewery.
whose home with his parents. at No. o4S west
Forty.6rst-st lie tried to check the spread OF the
fire at the start and escaped once fOm the stables
with difficulty, but foolshy returned with the fore
man and died near him.
Emil Dornberg. thirty three years old. laborer IN
The brewery who lives with his wife and children at
No 545 West Forty-siXths st., was burned about the
face and both hands while making his way out of the
stables after trying TO check the spread OF the ne.
Casper Stapf cooper. forty-one years ola, OF NO.
t25 West Forty fftst, started the flames by accIocnt
when he tried to heat pitch in lcaky Kettle.
In his efforts to prevent the flames from spreading lie
was burned the head. arms and hands so badly
that he was believed to be dying in hospital later
in the day.
The stables were collection Of low frame buildings
on the south side Of Forty irsst. opposite Loewers
brewery They were erected at different times, out
+hrcn city lots Loewer owned the stables. which stood
on leased ground About 100 Big horses used in a"inS
the brewery were kept i'll the stables AT night
Over the horses stalls lofts in which were stored
large quantities OF hay and straw fire once s'arted
In tho stables sure to spread rapidly. IN one o'
the front buildings furnace which pitch was
melted In kettles nearly every day. The boiling
bitch was poured into barrels and out again to
make a coating on the inside of the barrels
Stapf was the man who took Of the furnace
r,itc ia N he
usual at .. m. yesterday and started fire in the
furnace after placing kettle full OF pitch in position
The beer wagons started their routes through
the city about the time Foreman lios6ach ana
the cooper were the only men in the stables two ho's
later and Ho,bach wen, home TO set his break
fast Twenty horses were left in the stalls. AZ
q 80 a. m. Stapf alone. lie noticed that inc
kettle on the furnace leaking and he tried to stop
the leak with handful OF clay A few minutes later
the pitch in the kettle took fire and the flame went mp
to the rafters Of the stable Just al that moment
staprs little son entered with can o. coffee and some
rolls etspf shouted him 10 r1iT for help and the
boy obeyed.
On the sidewalk were Dornberc and young Tscheuin,
and the boy called out TO them that the stable was
on fire. The In to help Stapf fght the names
which already had begun TO creep along the Taitcr>.
smoke and heat nearly overpowercd them ana thcy
were obliged to retire. Young Tschcuin ran ont
through the stables. and at a side-door " me
rear Of p. Pryibs machine works, at No. o"4. ne
met worknell, who managed 10 rescue eishl vi
the horses Stapf and DornberT got out the front
way. they suffered from burns aud their clo'he'
were on FIRE. Stapi crazy with pain and he ran
about crying until men in the street smotherd tc
flames in his clothing and dashed water over hi'
Dornberg ran to the brewery Office 10 give the alarm
Foreman Hosbach helped y put out fire that was
burning Dornbcrss shirt. The 1rcmen were called IN
force by three alarms ambulance took Hapf TO
the Roosevelt Hospital. DornberS was able TO walk
10 the hospital and later he went home.
After the fremcn arrived HO,bach persisted in gong
INTO the rear stables to try TO get out the twelve
horses that remained in the stalls. The fIcmen
told him not to so, but he did not heed 'le
order and young Tscheulin went with him. soon after
they disappeared in the smoke the flames burst out Oh
tho doorway and there was no chance TO save ci'her
them the horses.
made bonfire which the frcmen could not control iSr
time. All that could be done was to Pro.fst me
nre was out the stables in ruins: II vas . a. M
before the french were able to find the hodrSs oi
5S3iy as TO- to be unTecosni.abe They identified
BY bits Of clothing which lay under them. ie n ,,
~ ron the dt s%o the
blankets and left them where they were found uhtu
nearly when 6e sa time n' 'r S AZ wa s
to Ssntary Headquarters that the carca,scs OF t"e'e
roasted horses needed Sd rSmov al. widow with nine
children the youngest babe in arms. was frantic WIN
Srtef. The neighbors did their best TO console her.
v n,ie Get ehe fSoI@h attempt to save few
- A q the s sH nrs%sH % "2S pay a0
Ssef and for years has kept The beer shop over which
ne family lived The young man h Md' , a%sS S a
prentice in the brewery Is than YEAR. IIosbach
had been employed by Mr. Loe~er about twenty ye Goo
Including the loss the buildings which we're Insured
for g. 90. lie i, on hi- way TO Germany on the
steamship Wicland.