The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-03-19
FIRE FIEND'S VICTIMS
Terrible Scenes at the Burning Of
a New York Tenement.
THREE DEAD IN ONE FAMILY.

Men and Women Leap and Children
Thrown from the Windows in the
Mad Rush for Life - Awakened
from Sleep to Meet the Messenger
of Death.
New YORK, March TO- = Terrible
scenes were enacted in the Hebrew dis
trict in fire that consumed the five
story tenement on the southwest corner
Of Allen and Hester stesets. Three of
a family of six, father and two daugh-
ters, perished lniserably. The mother
was carried out all but corpse Her
two boys were more or less badly
burned. Men and women leaped, and
children were thrown rom windows in
the desperate effort to escape. Fire
men and police caught whom they
could, but not all. One child at least
was all but killed in the fall. OF the
6fty-one persons in the house, seven lie
dead or manned. This is the list of the
dead:
The Dend and Injured.
Barnett Tartar, 81 years old. Polish jew,
tailor by trade. burned to death.
Sarah. his oldest daughter 10 years old,
burned to death.
Bstsey, the youngest daughter. aged 10
years, burned TO death.
The injured are;
Minnie Tartar, % years old, wife OF Barnett
and m ,ther of the children. burned on face
and entire body. Carried out of the burning
house by her son at the immlneRt reril of his
life. She Is in Bellevue hospital. dying.
Harry Tartar. IS years, the oldest son and
her rescuer, right hand burned very badly.
Abraham, aged years, the youngest son
and last member of the doomed family, in
ternal injuries
The two brothers are iu the Gouverncur hos
ptsl.. -. -
Abraham Goldstein. agei years. thrown
from window by hi, father, Internally in
iured in the fall and may die; in Gouverncur
hospital.
The fire broke out at 3:15 in the morn
ing, when every member of the ten
families in the house was fast asleep.
Rapid Spread OF the Flames.
The fire was discovered on the first
floor, occupied as liquor store by Jas.
tro Alexander. 1t spread with great
rapidity to the second story and thence
through the building. The second floor
WAS occupied by Solomon and Max
Goldstein. On the third floor was the
family Of Harris Greenburg; on the
fourth, Marion Ribiello, and on the
Eibh hObh was VIC iallllJ VI DoIuaTu
Tartar.
The fire gained way so quickly that
the stairs and usual means of egress
Were burned away before those on the
upper floors could make their escape by
them. The fremen, on their arrival,
went to the rescue OF the tenants cut
of from escape in the upper part of the
building with ladders. Minnie Tartar
was taken out burned about the face.
She was removed to Bellevue hospital.
Abraham Goldsteiu was thrown from q
second story window to the firemen, but
he fell to the ground aud received in
ternal injuries.
Three Dead Bodies Found.
1t was found that three members OF
the Tartar family were missing, and
when the fi2mes We're subdued suf-
ticiently TO permit it u search was made
for their bodies in this building, which
had been completely burned out. Three
bodies wers discovered aud sent to the
morgue, where they were identified as
Barnett, Bessie and Sarah Tartar. They
are believed to have suffered death from
suifocation, although their bodies were
dishgured by fire and smoke.
1t was reported during the progress
OF the fire that ten persons who lived in
the burning building We're missing All
of the tenants, however, except the
three dead members of the Tartar fam
lily have been accounted for.
The damage to the building amounts
possibly to about Sl0.00J and the loss
of furniture to $1,000. There was no
insurance on the furniture. The cause
of the fire is not known.