Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-19

a Young Woman 8uAoeated and
Fifty thousand Dollars worth OF
OF Property Destr0yed-Gallantry OF
the FiremeR-A General Alarm Sent
In-Familfes Rescued. :
NEWARK, N. j., Feb. 10.-At $50 this
morning disastrous fire resulting In one
death and the loss of $4,000 In property
broke out in the cellar of Henry Fritz's CON.
feotionery store, three-story frame building
at No. 557 Broad street, near the Morris and
Essex railroad station. A general alarm was
sent ont, and every hose company in the city
was brought to tho scene. In the confsc-
headway that the firemen gave up all hope
of saving the building and turned their en-
tire attention to rescuing the inmates. The
family of Mr.. Fritz were taken ont ono BY
one. None of them was seriously injured,
though few minutes more wonld have
caused the sufocation of at least two Of the
children. The flames spread with remark
able rapidly. In ten minutes the frame
buildings Nos. $50, sol and 500 had csueht
fire and were burning as 6ercely a. the con-
fectionery store. The lower part of No. $50
was occupied as shoe store by Thomas B.
Blackburne, with julius Blum's fancy store
ment above. The fremen worked their way
from room to room and removed in safety all
the sleeping inmates. Meanwhile scores of
streams were playing upon the buildings
without any apparent check to the intensity
of the fire.
No. 597 went next. The inmates of this
house had been aroused by the fire and were
casting thir effects into the street. In the
excitement of the moment 1t was taken for
granted that everybody in the house had
been awakened. The fire gained space, and
when an agonized cry for help was heard
and face was seen against one of the
upper windows. Another cry was raised and
the window broke. A young woman pressed
against the sash for moment and then, ex-
hausted and stifed, fell back into the room.
Several fremen dashed up the burning stairs
without waiting for orders and with scarcely
a possibility that their bravery could accom-
plish its object. The flames had now burst
seen, and the great crowd of spectators
waited In breathless expectation. In q few
moments the fremen were seen descending
to the street bearing in their arms a figure,
about which what remained of q white night
dress had been wrapped. A shout of rejoics
ing went up, which was instantly hushed, as
the iremen laid down their burden and it
was found that the woman was dead. The
body was that of Mrs. Mary Burns, twenty
two years old, who came to visit her sister,
Mrs. Jackson, yesterday. The fremen found
her lying upon the stairway leading from the
third floor of the house, where she had
dragged herself after her momentary appear
ance at the window and her prostration by
the smoke. She must have made brave
fight for life, as the stairway was some dis
lance from the window. The body was
taken to Mullen's morgue to wait the appear
ance of relatives.
A fireman named Harry Durman, who had
assisted in bringing the body to the street,
was 80 badly injured by falling beam that
it was found necessary to remove him to his
home in police ambulance.
All four buildings were destroyed. The
loss of $4,000 was partly covered by insur-