Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-10
FOUR PERISH.
Thrilling Scenes At q New York Tene
ment House Fire.

Thrilling Scenes At q New York Tene
ment House Fire
Terrible scenes were enacted on a recen.
morning in the Hebrew district OF New
York City. In a fire that consumed the i've
story tenement on the southwest corner OF
Alien and Hester streets three Of a family
OF sax, father and two daughters persisted
miserably
OF the fifty persons in the house seven
lie dead or MANNED. This IS the list OF the
dead
Barnett Tartar, fifty-six years old. Polish
Jew, tailor by trade, burned to death Sarah,
his Oldest daughter, nineteen years old
burned to death. Betsy, the youngest daugh-
Ter. aged thirteen years, burned TO death.
Fnilp Elschlsky, a ged thirty-four suffocated.
The tenants Hebrew tailors, with their
families, reused suddenly to confront death
IN It's most terrible form, swarmed down the
fire escapes on both sides OF the building
shrisklng and waiting as they called their
lost ones
Ladders were thrown up hastily TO help
them down, but some, in the confusion and
smoke, missed both wood and iron lad
ders.
The iron rungs of the fire escapes were
turning white with heat when Max Gold
stein reached for them from the third floor
and recoiled in despair.
He stood in a window holding his tAree
little children in his arms.
From the street the police yelled to him to
throw them down. He threw first one
Moses. aged five years, and Policeman Reyer
caught the boy. Rose, the baby, IL years
old, was caught next in the arms of Police
man Weiss.
Abraham, three years old followed so
quickly that though the policemen broke
his fall, they were unable to catch him. He
fell heavily on the pavement, and was picked
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himself jumped after and escaped unhurt.
The building was Quilted, and the tenants
lost their all. In the fifth story next to the
roof, the fremen found Barnett Tartar aud
his two daughters dead.
They found him kneeling at the window
overlooking Allen street. with both hands on
the sill, as though he had fallen, over
whelmed by the flames, on the very threshold
of escape.
His venerable beard was burned of. Under
him, where she had crept up close, in the
hour of death, was the body Of his youngest
daughter and pet child, little Bessie.
Over by the bed at the other side of the
room they found the body of Sarah wrapped
in a blanket ALI had been burned and
smothered to death.
Harry, the oldest son, was already on the
steps, hastily arrayed in such clothing as
came to hand, when he thought of his mother
and ran back In the house.
He seized her and bore her down all the
the way to the bottom, the little brother
Abraham cinging to his coat tails
and the mothers skirt. Flames
leaped from the windows as he
passed story after story. scorching his hair
and hands, and catching in his mothers
clothing and in the boys, but he bore her on
until he stood upon the sidewalk with his
burden saved, but almost at the cost of his
life
Tue arm that held his mother was terribly
burned, and his mother scorched almost
from head to foot She was carried away in
the ambulance with all speed, but the sur
geons had no hope of saving her.
Upon the fourth floor lived the family of
Mariana Riviello, Italians. All others in the
house were Hebrews. The firemen had gained
the windows on their ladders and helped the
man and his little daughter Bessie out, when
the girl suddenly stopped and stepped back
into the smoke. In there death. The
firemen on the ladder knew it, and, stepping
over the sill, climbed after.
Come back" he shouted. "Come back,
this wayP and CROPPED his way across the
room in the direction the child had gone.
Half way across he came upon her, gasping,
nearly smothered, dragging dolls trunk
over the floor.
II could not leave it, she said to the fire.
man, thrusting it at him as he seized her.
my mother"
The fireman flung the box through the
window as he took the girl down. It fell
crashing on the sidewalk, and busting open
revealed no doll or finery, but the deed for
her dead mothers grave. Little Bessie had
not forgotten it, despite her thirteen years