Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-29
PANIC In A TENEMENT.
Frightful Stampede Caused by Cry OF
ssFire.''

"Fire.''
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-There are four
Jewish synagogues in the tenement
house q Ludlow Street. They We're
all crowded this morning with devout
Hebrews attending the festival services
OF the new year, when some per-
son in one of the places of
worship raised cry of fire. I'm
mediately there was panic. and
everybody rushed for the doors. The
stairway, which is not very wide, be-
came packed with people. They piled
right on top of one another on the
stairway. Some person out on the
street had enough presence of mind to
send in fire alarm that brought the
department to the scene. The firemen
sue oeded in extricating the people
from the blocked stairway and found
that there were four dead and about q
dozen injured.
The scene of the tragedy was a six
story tenement p Ludlow Street.
There is synagogue on each of
the first, second and third floors.
The one on the first floor
is behind a store. A narrow, dirty
flight Of stairs leads to the two above.
1t was in the synagogue on the third
floor, where the Congregation Talmud
Torah worshiped, that the panic began.
This synagogue, like the rest, is plain
tenement room, filled with wooden
benches. A partition divides it CROSS
wise in the middle. In the partition is
door just the width of two boards.
Through tins those who were furtEest
to the front he'd to pass together within
sight of the stairs.
At the front partition door there was
| jam, then a crash, and a part OF the
board wall gave way. The mass poured,
fell, rolled down the steep stairways.
More than 1000 people were in the
building. They heard the rush over
mead, the crash of the rending boards,
| the shouts of fire and cries of anguish,
and, with a common impulse, did what
| the others had done-ran for the stairs
| for lie.
At the second floor landing there is q
sharp turn. There again the mass
stuck for moment, but worked loose
presently and the first onset occurred.
| The blind and human avalanches met,
| one coming down stairs, the other cut
| ting in under it ana trying to get ahead.
Menand women fought dumbly, but with
the madness of despair, and the weak
| est went down. Down there it brought
| UP against rush from the rear room
synagogue, the biggest of all and came
| to dead stop. The stairs did not give
way.
The shrieks Of desperate women in
the store had called heip. When all
| had been cleared out, four women lay
| dead on the stairs and nine more or
| less badly injured. These were sent to
the Gouverneur Hospital.
Someone throw the cpndle that
caused all the trouble out of the win
dow up stairs and put an end to the
| fire.
The four dead taken to the station
! house were identified as follows:
| FREDA BECKER, IA years, Russian, of
| $50 Ludlow Street.
NAOMI RosENTIIAL. 80 years, of 175
| Ludlow Street married.
TUEEE BoYUM, aged so. Of lao Forsyth
| Street.
BALK PoErMANN, 20 years old, of 222
| Madison Street.
| The injured are
H. COHEN, Is years old, 17S Madison
| Street.
| RACHAEL. EoRFUK, q years, 90 Norfolk
! Street.
ANNIE COHEN, 5S years, % Essex Street.
SIMON GREENRUKG, residence I'M
| known
ALBERT WOLF, "a years. 1856 Monroe
Street, injured by Jumping from window.
! SIMEON GREENBERG, 115 Monroe Street
IDA COHEN, 222 Madison Street
| RACHAEL BACKOWITZ.
julius ALTMANN, rs Essex Street
A woman, about 30 years old, still re-
mains ut the hospital unidentified.