The evening world., 1891-11-17
Seventy-Two Families Homeless
Through a Brooklyn Fire.
Unconscious Tenants Lowered from
Windows with Ropes.
The Loss on Buildings and Furnish
ings Placed at $126, 600.

seventy-two families. numbering nearly
300 persons, were made homeless this morn.
ing by a fire which swept through n row Of
TALL double frame tenements on the lower
side OF NOstrand avenue, between Park and
Myrtle avenues, Brooklyn.
-Four persons were caught on the top floor
OF one house and overcome by smoke. They
were saved from death by the flremen, who
lowered them to the ground with ropes.
The fire spread with startling rapidity,
and In less than ten minutes after IT. was dis
covered every house In the row was on fire.
There were nine houses altogether, bcgin-
ming at 10 Nostrand avenue and extending
to 1876.
Each house was four stories high and shell
tered eight families. The buildings adjoincd
each other, with nothing between them eN-
cept thin walls OF brick and plaster.
1t was Just 2.O5 O'Clock when the blaze was
discovered. Policeman John stewart, Of the
Vernon avenue station, was passing opposite
12O Nostrand avenue and saw u cloud Of
smoke rising IRON the basement Of the build
ing. He ran to the corner OF Myrtle avenue
and sent In an alarm.
Accompanied bya citizen named John Kelly
tenants warning them OF their danger
The front door OF the building was broken
open, and he and Kelly went through the
house rapping on the doors. BY the time
they reached the top floor the building was
fun Of smoke, and they were choking. one
OF the tenants OF the top floor threw open his
door, and few moments later fell uncon-
sciouj from inhaling the smoke.
stewart and Kelly rushed through the
rooms and aroused those who were still
asleep, and got them downstairs in safety.
Meanwhile the fremen had arrived and
short ladders were run to the apartments on
the second floor. The families IRON the floor
above had come downstairs. but were unable
to go any further on account OF the smoke.
A dozen persons were carried down the lad
ders in their night-clOthing.
LOWERED FROM WINDOWS BY ROPES.
! Suddenly cry went up that there were
people on the top floor. woman stood In q
window with three children. She had re-
moved her night-clothing and stood almost
nude In the window, preparing to jump. The
firemen called to her to wait.
A long ladder was placed against the house.
Several flremen ran up to her with ropes.
Just us they reached the window she fell
back on the floor and her children fell beside
I her, all overcome by smoke. The lines were
fastened around her and she was nassed
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/ were rescued.
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worth, aged thirteen and four years, and
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mnco,.c,ouS and were toxan into hallway
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| Meanwhile the nre had spread. the struc-
lures were fimsy, wooden affairs An air.
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OF the stairway In each OF the houses. The
flames ana smoke ran through the building
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| FLAMES SPREAD UNDER THE ROOF.
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through the entire row OF houses The flames
| snread under the roof To The airshafts I'm On ch
house and then down into the buildings.
| When tho orc,Ina nj \ Of he autOining houses
foun / their lives threatened they made their
| way TO the street IN their niyhtclothes Some
used the iire-escnpes in the rear. while Others
managed To- cone down by the stairways.
-Four minutes after the iiremcn arrived
| Foreman ConnpI sent I'm n secOnd and then n
third alarm bringing twelve engines to The
| spot.
| Firemen went through the buildings IN
| ep,rch oY nnnnla who might have hpan Ian
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