The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-06
ANOTHER FIRE WARMING
Halls We're Filled With
Flame and Clouds
Of Smoke.
NOEESCAPE BY STAIRWAYS,
And So the Occupants Scrambled
Out Upon the Roofs-Fortu-
nately There We're No
Casualties.
NO5ESCAPE BY STAIRWAYS,

A peculiar fire broke out just before six
o'clock last evening in the cellar under
No. % Gregory street The building is
ana the two-story frame building runs
through to that street. It is owned by
Au gustus Ia briskie. On the first floor
on the Montgomery street side are To-
Gated the liquor saloon of Redmond
Flynn, Jacobs tailor store and Clinton's
hat store. All these properties suffered
more or less from fire. smoke and water.
The popularity of the fire is that it
started in the cellar of the Gregory street
side of the building, nearly ate out the
first floor. and then spread along the hall
cry street side. On the first floor of the
Montgomery street side lived Mr. Charles
Fowler and family, and above lived the
families of Detective Mcbride aud Mr..
William Gilbert. On the second story
floor facing Montgomery street and above
the janirress OF the building, Widow
Mary Connolly and her only child. She
occupied four rooms. She has lost all by
the fire.
Some half-dozen engines and trucks re-
Sponded to the alarm when Box No. IA
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Railways of the building were filed with
dense volumes of smoke and flames roared
along the balustrades of the stairways SO
escape was cut off.
REMARKABLE ESCAPES.
This resulted in anumber of hair-breadth
the second floor Janitress Connolly
was about to light the gas in the
hallway on the second floor when
she heard a piercing shrek, which She
thought came from her only boy below.
Immediately afterward dense volume
low. Mrs. Connolly Immediately dashed
fer a second story window, and, crawling
out and grasping the oornice above
Flynn'S liquor saloon, dropped down into
the arms of citizen below. The appear
ance of the inmates at the windows.
whose retreat had been barred by the
smoke and flames that roared up from
the hallway below created intense excite
ment both on the Montgomery and
the Gregory street sides of the building.
OUT ON A ROOF.
Miss McKenna, who lives with her sis
ter, Mrs. Connolly, had climbed to the
raof and was about to jump when fire.
men arrived, and rearing a ladder, res
cued the frightened woman. Mr.. Gil.
bert's sister, q stout matron on visit
from Poughkeepsie. was rescued with
considerable difficulty through window
on the Gregory street side. The 1iremen
and police, and gallant Billy Keyes par
ticipated in several gallant rescues. Mrs.
Flynn, with tive children in her arms,
and Miss Mamie Shea appeared upon the
cornice over Flynn's saloon and were
rescued when meditating q jump from
the cornice to the fagstones below.
The origin of the fire is not positively
known. 1t broke out about twenty
minutes after several plumbers had left
off work in the cellar below the Gregory
street side of the building.
John P. McKenna, brother of Jani-
tress Connolly. entered the cellar an hour
after the firemen left. He found the pipe
leading from the gas metre that supplied
gas to the Railways broken off within a
foot of the metre. A lot of sawdust had
been consumed, but no other damage to
the cellar could be discovered until the
stairway was reached some half dozen
wards away.