New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-19
REMARKABLE RUN OF FIRES
FIVE LIVES LOST IN THE FLAMES.
FIREMEN BATTLE ALL NIGHT IN DIFFEREhH
PARTS OF THE CITY-vALUABLE PROP
ERTY DESTROYED.


Day, 1891. and kept them hard at work until the sun
rose yesterday morning. The flames which destroyed
the nncst0ry building, most appropriately called
"COhnfelds folly and three other business structures
in the block bounded BY Beecker Houston, Greene and
Mercer sts were raging furiously when the fire in
the II. b. Cla6in Company's warehouse in Leonard
st. broke out. Most OF the engines below Twenty.
thirdst. had been called by Ave alarms to the fire
al BcecIer-st., and all the remaining engines in the
lower part OF the city obliged to respond to the
third alarm in Leolard-st. Companies being
called from the upper part OF the city TO fill up the
gaps when the Knickerbocker Brewing Company's
nine story building, No. 240 West Eigteentht caught
fire The companies from uptown had all they could
do to save the brewery and it long after midnight
before they put the fire out.
At 40 a.. m Daniel Fitzpatrick's frame stable at
No. $40 Morris ave. destroyed by fire and three
horses were burned to death it. The loss did not
exceed 81 900; but the iremen in Morrisania had
long to the fire.
Three alarms called the downtown fremen to
big tenement house Mt Allen and Hester sts soon after
3 a. They found the house filled with flames and
smoke and were not able to prevent 1t from being
gutted. -Four persons in the house, three Of them
members Of family burned to death and four
others received serlOns injuries in escaping.
An hour later flames were discovered in the FIVE
story building NO Al walker-s:. and property valued
at thousands of dollars was destroyed there. Few
members OF the Fire Department got to sleep until the
up. and early in the day their rest was broken
by the return to the regular work in quarters.
THE ALIENS BLAZE.
Loss Of lie by fires in the Hebrew quarter east Of
the Bowery is to be expected, the police say long as
the Polish and Russian families there are content to
live in crowded tenement houscs which death
traps and so long as Insurance companies will insure
the furniture in such houses for twice its value. Four
Hebrews burned to death early yesterday morning
in the fve-siory tcnementhouse on the southwest
Of Hester and Allen sts and several Others who
were caught in the flames escaped alive but With
serious buns. Yet that house much safer than
most Of the houses in the neghbOrhOod Fre-cscapes
were on each front wall, and under the third story
windows on the Alenst. side was a swttchmans plat
form projecting from the elevated railroad From
the roof if the way to it had not been closed by .
locked door, escape would have been easy.
Fifteen Hebrew families and Italian family were
asleep in tie house when policemen saw the smoke
of the fire, at rs a. Yesterday and sent an alarm
from the nearest signalboX. Flames had started
either in J. Acxandcr's lquorshop the first floor.
in the cellar, and had gone up the stairway In Tho
middle Of the house, cutting of escape that way be-
fore the inmates aroused. Before the Ire
men arrived. the alarm given by policemen in
the streets had caused most Of the Hebrews to rush
to the fre-escapes. Several families went down tho
iron ladders safely being helped down from the lowest
balcony by the police. on the second fOor Max Gold
stein led his three children a window where there
was no balcony Ills cries for help attracted attention
and policemen on the sidewalk called 10 him 10 drop
tile little ones into their Godstein held his
son Moses, five years old, the windOwsill and let
TO- The child was caught safely by Policeman Boyer.
Baby dropped unart into the outstretched hands
of Policeman Weiss. Both policemen made a grab for
little Abraham. three years Old and he fell between
them to the sidewalk. lie received internal Injuries
which caused him become insensbie. Firemcn were
placing ladder against the next window on that side
of the house when oldten helped his daughter sarah.
eleven years Old the window-sill. lie tossed her
10 a fireman who ran up the ladder and the fireman
dropped her safely into the of man below him.
Goldstcn jumped to the ground unlurt.
RBSCU1NG PEOPLE.
out OF fourthstOry window a fireman saw the
family Of Mariana Rivello, Italians, climb to the
fire escape balcony. tie raised ladder 70 'I'
balcony and went up to help them down ltI'leHoS D
daughter thirteen years Old went back into the soNe
10 get box in which she kept the decd oil her ue'.
mothers grave. Tie fireman found her hali sunocan
and dragged her out along with the precious DoA'
Three families had climbed down the hreescapes
from the top floor when Harry Charock, sixteen years
Old was seen 10 drag his mother out on the balcony
followed by his little brother Abraham hr'.
Char.ocl was in a halffanting condition ana iad
been burned seriously about the face and hands Her
clothing was on fire. The two boys had got tHelr
mother part way down the escape when they "eFo
soon bv the fremcn who helped them down the rest
NJ the wav Both lads suffered from burns on ther
hands
A call for ambulances had been sent ort. MAX
GoIdsteln WAS wailng over the nsensibe form of
his little boy on Pie sidewalk. When the amoulahoes
arrived. A surgeon discovered that the boy WAS
alive although seriously injured. The little fellow
was placed in ambulance and taken 10 ITO
Gouverncur Hospital with the TWO Char'ocA ooS''
Mrs Minnie Charock, whose name was mlsuhder'
stood at the time as Jarter carried TO Bellevue
Hospital Her injuries were 50 serious uhal tuo
surgeons said she might not recover.
Meanwhile a second alarm had been sounded ana
the fremen doing their utmost 10 put out tho
fire. They were able 10 save the SHE'LL but nearly
everything in the house was destroyed By the haies'
Iumors OF loss of life had been spread about TIE
noighborhood. and as the frcmen were able
10 enter the house they began search Tor Dode''
ON the top floor window they founa the chaftea
corpse OF Barnett CharOck the father of the hmly'
Close by the blackened corpse OF MS daush'@
Ectsy thirteen wears Old Both bodies were in crouch
ing attitudes. Father and daughter had been over
come by the smoke when near the window from when
they expected to escape on the edge of half burned
he'd was found the body Of Sarah Chartock, nineteen
wears old she evidently had been bewildered by
the smoke and had buried her face m the bes
clothes Her body marred by the harles
SISTERS WILD GRIEF.
On the opposite side Of Hestcr-St. lived Sarahb
older sister Esther. wife of a Hquordealer named
Iovv The nrcmen were Obliged to lower the three
bodies outside burned house in full view OF Esther
Levy who walled loudly and was restrained by
force from throwing herself the ground beside the
corpscs OF her father and sisters. As quickly as pos
slble the bodies were covered and removed to the
M6rgue. Late in the afternoon the police were in.
formed that Philip Elschsky. tailor, tairy-four
wears old who had boarded with Solomon Godscin
on the third story OF the house, was missing. 4
search was made and Elschsky's body was found in
the ruins OF his bed the third floor. Probably he
had not been awakened until it was too late for him
to escape. His body sent to the Morgue.
Harry Chartock said that when the family awoke
and found the full of smoke, he led the others
toward the roof They found the door to the roof
locked and were Obliged to back. Mrs. solomon
odsten the housekeeper denied that the door to the
roof had been locked.
Tho no,ice heard ugly rimors about the fire. and