New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-03
THE house WAS FILLED WITH GAS.

roUPTrFy PEOPLE AFFECTED BY IT-SOME OF
TuFM DRAGGED OUT INsENSIBLE.
Tho lives Of several persons were nearly destroyed
bv Illuminating Gus which escaped from a leaky pipe
in tbe basement of the four-story tenement No
s7j park.ave Yesterday morning. trouble WIN '"c
Gas there two weeks ago caused the occupants Vi '
house to appeal to the Consolidated "aS Co"p'"S'
Workmen in the employ of the company iouhu run
in the pipe In the basement and stopped IT, s''o"
Of escaping gas was noticed in Meyers liquor s'oe vi
fine first floor on Monday but the occupants OF inc
upper stories went TO sleep at night, UNCONSCIOUS Vi
danger soon after daybrenk yesterday morning 'nie'
stchnofh the ianOr OF the house. who lived III rVos
over the liouor store with his wife Caroline ana Ills
son Charles awohe with feeling OF SuHoca'o". Nv
cot out Of bed and dizzy tlat ne coun oarel'
walk 4 suspicion Of the cause OF his trouble "auc
him sagcer to a window and open it. AS htte pure
air rushed in stichnoh realized that his rooms were
full Of gas lie tried to arouse his WIFE, ana ioun'
that she nscnSible WIN srcaI oi'"O'' "
dragged her to the open window
Policeman Cagney, OF the East sixty -seventh-st'
sonad was in sight, and Stchnoth called 10 MN io'
holm Cagney raped to call other policemen, and then
broke into the lower hall Of the house. AS the uoor
flew open volume OF gas rushed out OF the nall Inv
nollceman started to go upstairs, but the gas nearly
choked him. and returned to the Sidewalk linen nc
coined access to the adjoining house went to the ri
and broke open the scuttle Of No. $50. creating a
dranght through the house and letting some OF the gas
ont Of the railways As soon possible Cagney weh'
down 10 Stichnohs room and opened all the widows
stchnohs son was insensble in bed, and MIS- S'loh
moth had not recovered her senses.
Other policemen answered Cagney's call for hcp' anu
went through the house. breaking into rooms Oh each
soor Two women were found suffering from ulo
effects Of gas on the third floor. but they revived
ouicklv when the Windows opened Rooms Oh
th, ton floor were full OF gas, which had gone UP
through n dumb-waer SHAFT from the basement
Mrs Mary sanders. widow occupied That moor WIN
her Young son> Edward AID Albert. ana let O'Iei
rooms To five boarder Henry and Jacob RrSchler WHO
kent a grocery next door AT 40. ST. Park ave-. ana
three Of their clerks. Mrs sanders and her son "a
ward were found sensoe,s in their bcs. while the boy
Albert WAS aroused with difficulty. The boarter' were
awakened and they were able to get mp with the eA-
ccption Of Max Iauk'nan OF the clerks VINO was
too sick from the effects Of gas 10 move Iouohah
Mccarthy found Charles Ruhm, q young BARTENDER
living unconscious On the floor u Meyers liquor store
down stairs and promptly dragged him out on Tue SIDE
walk Ruhm had gone into the store TO clean H. anu
had been overcome by the gas there.
Physicians were called from the German lio>pai
and from private houses Park ave. and they applied
restOratlvcs In few minutes all OF the sufferers u
the tenement house recovered CONSCIOUSNESS ana "cTc
pronounced ont u danger. IL was not necessary 10
s,ud any Of them to the hospital, but the two women
Ind to remain In bed part OF the DAY 81, n, a.,
WOrkmcn from the IA company > OWcc nAcn uc
broken ga,ppc in the basement. making the discovery
that the leak had occurred ~ the same place where IL
bad been noticed TWO weeks ago.