The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-02
IEAPT OFF IN FEAR OF FIRE.
r,,ogTtUL PLUNG Es FROM THE FIRE
ESCAPES OF A SWEAT SHOP.
,.. oo,astein Throws by Her Grandmoth.
or from the Second Floor to the rave
MON, = Lovers Leap from tho Fourth
Floor. the Roy First. Then the Giri-Eisht
r.-so,s in Hospitai-Three Win Die.

I'll. tour. story rickety affair. built less than
.,uo,,a fact back from the front house. 1t was
as.unied by sweaters and their employer
MAKERS OF clothing. There were two apart
n,rrts on each floor and three rooms In each
nnar.ment Every family had three or four
children and generally some boarders Not
loss than eighty persons lived In the building
Tirs. escape balconies connected by ladders
o,tend along the middle four front windows
NJ Tho house on each floor and overlook q
n,,ed COURTYARD. There Is another paved
courtyard next door at 80.
solomon Zalinsky. who lived on the second
aoor. on the east side. says that no doesn't
know how his rooms got atlre ut on o'clock
Iast night He thinks n lamp exploded In
The middle Of the building there was n little
IVA wooden air shaft, and up this the flames
went, communicating to the window castings
in the shaft on every floor. Nearly all OF tho
tenants and their boarders were in the house.
and the children were in bed
There was panic In minute. The shaft
orens on tho Railways. The people rushed
into tho railways and finding them filled with
smoke ran back into their apartments
and then out on tho fro escapes. The
laddcr Intended for use between the ground
and the first floor was hanging from the plat
form on tho second floor and nobody knew
enough or was cool enough. or was able to
take 1t down. The men and the women who
got cut first with children in thor arms.
climbed down to the first floor platform
md that was jammeG In a few minutes with
n screaming mob. The ladder between the
first and second floor filled. and then tho second
floor platform. Men pushed and fought in
their efforts TO get further down. Less than
aye minutes after the first alarm the fire es-
care platforms wcre full. Tho people above
A.. lato IoVl
Tho flames began to spread in the apart
mcnts. and their glare added to the terror.
Mon nearest the iron guard rails be-
gan to Chamber upon them 10 jump
Of. The tenants in the front houses
shouted to them not to jump and
men below. who had run back from the saloons
on tho first floors of the front houses into the
little courts. shouted and screamed for them
to wait moment. but nobody made any Of
fort at rescue. There was no holding the peo-
pie back.
First baby Freda Goldstein was thrown
by woman from the second-story balcony
into the court. The woman was its grand
mother Ochick Goldstein. She tainted as
the child struck headforemost on the flags.
Some OF the men in the court ran to it and
picked 1t up. Then they lodged to escape
secoud body. Solomon Zalinsky had jumped
from the same platform. He was not hurt He
turned and looked up. holding his arms out
stretched for others to follow him.
young couple stood screaming with terror.
They were Louis Kaufman ana Fanny Levy.
The girls arms were tightly clasped about the
and screamed and wrenched and at last sue
ceeded in loosing her hold. In an instant he had
sa sr nn na hs a. na d ax%s on nio
tril Within: The boys head struck the flags
and his whole face seemed to be split open;
Ituy, ana IN fhan 0pvr4n ut tNt
Jumped. She .fei on the two. The shrieks
dd cTes % horo he eeop
in the other houses. The fire lit up the court
lust enough to show the motionless bodies and
court
o There w1s pause in the ju%P,nc fire
rushed into the yard. Just then the flames
began burning the castings Of the windows in
front Of the house and little tongues shot out
The terror was renewed. and men and
w"msn On every Platform leap9d over the
heard.
The mon from the truck that followed the
nent tho panic was over. and those who had
G G,I f"r:nqate enough not to jump clambered
Then the bodies Of the injured were carried
gu. through tho alleys and into one of the
rnt Of the pssa hrd in
VII, Who had come down the ladder had been hus.
chance to work; The women. Still frantic.
r r,sdn here ind there screaming for their
tried to get into the saloon Where the injured
were. but the pol iceman would not let them in.
THE. ihe reserves had been called from the III.
!ances had been sent. but tho ambulances were
SLOW IN getting Ing around Thecrowd was cleared
OnanpI.
nm"9L; SON" 81 them were covered with blood:
aHn was attended, rst Fs e snrgsons RAID sad
NJ ';.sc wn; homeless Fanny Levy. tho girl
lomlth t'oor, heard it and scream ell In Hebrew:
don't wnm ING "a aIG IT,, nnM save him Lot me die
unne led to- get to him but fell bnck.
S Sns,. s ,s whiIe tic surgeon dressed tho
WTte Go'nG to be married. She couldn't live
.nr Of tho crowd in the saloon said the girl
Snd TINT TINT kanfmann had sent for hcr 10 come
%hSn aga "a d nary him. She was visiting lin
snriys ambuanccs ali told came. and tho
S sGeG IN . worked for az hour Tho most scri-
oorfm n wr rretty Austrian, girl. 20 years
Iou ase' Sho had run up. on the roof Of tho
oSGsd Tn "nG h s9 found the te sscnEes
p octE WAS was broken. The surgeon said sho could
recover
,o Msncn all tho wounds were dressed tho
rn moo TOOK tic names OF tho injured. and they
t "tv ioaueu into nmbulanccs and taken to
HThuveernGnr and Chambers street hospitals.
and t bre mac had been extinguished long boloro
II s smc apartments searched.
had was reported that several children, who
hSrnnaesen asleep when tho fire. broke out, were
Trhhed; lhe iiremen found no bodies.
lows 'sl OF tho seriously injured was as fol-
,to''tS Ina. O. years OLD. fell from the FIRST floor
"pe lett arm broken Gouverncur Hospital
vl'''.' fHrpA. IL months thrown by her grand.
.' IRON tho IRE escape OF the second floor to the
r" tagging IN tho court yard 1t door; fracture OF
VII probably die Gouverneur Hospital
.. EAAsusL. 30 jumped from third floor fire
.s bones Of right foot broken Chambers Street
,. SAMUEL 81. Jumped from third floor nrs escape;
w'us OF back Gouverneur Hospital
so... .ASS L"us, ID years old jumped from fourth
~. als escape; nose. Jaw and thigh fractured and
Ho.,,i a''ioeated: will probably die 0ouverneur
,o..,, !AsslH II. isx Bsysrd street Jumped from
No." aoof nrs escape. Left thigh and right An kls
p. ohsmosrs Street Hospital
tAsH. RssrccA A.. taioress Jumped from the
Hospital '' '' '''