The evening world., 1891-07-15
Sixteen Families Penned In In a BuFl-
Ing Brooklyn Tenement.
Two Children Burned TO Death and
Many People Hurt.
Panlc- Stricken People Fall from
Windows and Fire Escapes.

Two little girls were roasted TO death In q
tcnement-hou fire-trap In Brooklyn during
the flrst hour OF this morning. Four grown
people sustained very serious injuries IN the
same flre The scene was IN the house num-
bcrcd 28s and 27O state street.
The injured persons were hurt In jumping
from windows ana In falling from the firc-
escape while fleeing from the fire, which
caused panic among the sixteen families
living In the tcncmcnts.
Following H. a list ot the Casualties;
THE nEAp.
MAaaIF r. BIsInr, three years old, daughter OF
tho inuitor u No. 2Gs Burned ton crisp.
MAuGm MCCARTHY, threc years and seven
months old. Sunocstcd
rHE INJURIp.
Mrs MARY 4. BmuuP, sixty years old, JAnit"r
Bishops mother Contusions Of limbs.
Mrs BERTHA FOLEY, thirty-ons years old. trhe
tured shoulder Brooklyn Hospital.
BmDGET BIRCHALL, sixty years old. lacernted
wound of sea y aud serious Internal injuries. ~.
Peters Hospital
Mrs Bertha Foley, who Is thIrty-one years
old, was In delicate condition, and was
dropped from the second story to the ground.
She wns removed 20 the hospital In I'm amhu-
lance.
How the tirr originated Is II mystery. The
police are busily Investigating, on the theory
that It was OF inCcndinry origin
OUTBREAK or THE FIRE.
II was lust midnight when Policeman
Tuomey, of the Adams street STATEN, discov-
cred the tenements to be on IRE.
| lie Immediately turned In an alarm from
the box on the corner OF court street, and
then ran to the house.
The IRE was IN the cellar Of No. 26S, and
| the smoke had poured mp the air-shaft MI
Ing the halls. The tenants were nwakene
nearly surocated by the smoke, and panic
cnsued.
Almost before the people were awake the
flames had eaten their way up through the
airshart, and were making hendway into the
apartments Oh the upper floors.
PANIC-sTRICKES TENANTS.
There were sixteen families, comprising
more than eighty men, women and children
in the buildings, and only u few had time ia
put ON any Of their clothing.
The terrified people rushed TO the Railways
IN an EFFORT to reach the stairs but were
driven back by ,he flames and smoke.
There are no ilre-oSCapes on the front OF the
house, and there was a mad rush for the rear
windows, from which could be reached the
uJtlr iron ladders attached TO the rear OF the
building.
The scene was one Of utter confusion. Tho
tenants swarmed out on the nre-esCapes In
their night clothing. Those on tho lower
rloors were trembling and terror-stricIen and
consequently made slow progress In getting
to the ground.
Those who were Imprisoned above called
pitcously for help. Men sworo, women
screamed, and the cries OF children added ia
the general eA Actcment.
LEAPED fRoM WINDOW.
Mrs. Bridget BirchAll, who is sixty years
old, lived with her daughter and sOn-in-law
on the second floor of No go. She cried to
her sOn-in-law TO save her.
The young man caught her about the waist.
Intending to pass her out Of the window but
She was half crazcd, and breaking away from
him she jumped through the window 70 the
ground. Her head was badly injured.
PENNED IS on THE Tor FLOOR.
The story Of the experience Of JanltOr
| Bishop, whose family was imprisoned on the
| top moor Is dramatic.
81 was asleep IN tho bedroom IN the middle
Of the nat," he says, "when | was awakened
| by choking sensation.
~ awakened my wife. one Of the children
the one who was burned 10 dcath-wa-
screaming, aud shouted to my mother and
| the other child.
.'Ihen | rushed to the front Of the house
and saw that the flames had already reached
| the window.
- window was open IN the air-shaft and
| tried TO close II. was gasping for breath
and inadvertently took in II mouLhful Of hot
air. lost consciousness for a few seconds
and when / came TO / found myself on the
ioOr.
~ then went back to the front room, but II
was like a seething furnace.
COULD NOT PIND THE BABY.
~ gropcd around FOR the baby, but could
not mud her.
- went into the bedroom again, but could
| not hear the lit,le Que. The bed waA on the
| noor and was ahlnzc.
"Ifclt underneath It, but did not md her,
A." ! could not stand It any longer and went
to the roof and escaped by dropping 10 the
roof Of the next house.
AGED MRS. BISHOPS DESPERATE JUMP,
Meantime my mother had gone down the
| frc-escape."
| EMrs. Bishop went down AZ far as the second
| fioor. and then became 80 excited that she
| Jumped TO the ground. She was badly
/ hruiscd.
The terrified peoples screams Tor help were
heard several blocks away, aud large crowd
had gathered IN front Of the blazing buildings
when tine ircmen arrived.
william Fuley lived with his wife and two
children on the upper side OF the second moor
OF No. 26S.
lie was awakened by the cries OF the people
outside and after rOusing his wife he went u