New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-02
A SMALL BOYS BRAVE DEATH
HE SAVED HIS LITTLE SISTERS LIFE.

CARRYING HER THROUGH SMOKE AND FLANn
IN A TENEMENT HOUSE FIRE.
fire which broke out at O'Clock YESTERDAY
morning in the four-story brick building No.
1919 Broadway, Brooklyn, has resulted in the
death of one victim and the permanent injury of
several Others. The building was occupied on
the first floor by a shoe store owned by John
Toere; the second by DR.. F. II. Martin, dentist;
the third by family consisting of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Schotler and five children, Thomas, the eldest,
bow. and Maggie. Mamie, Emma and May; the
fourth by Mrs. Mildred Tufts, her daughter, Mrs.
Kate Dolde, twenty -four years DID, her child. four
years old, and the following members of the
family: Mildred, five years Josie, twenty-five;
Lavinia, twenty-five: Cassie nineteen; Newell.
eighteen; Maud, thirteen; Benjamin, eleven and
Madeline, eight years old
A few minutes before 9 O'Clock Mrs. Mildred
Tufts awoke, suffering from suffocation, and sup
posing the smoke came from defective hue in
the building which had frequently given trouble
before, jumped out of bed and opened the win
dow. Then she opened the door volume OF
smoke poured into the room and. realizing the
situation, she hurredly wakened the family, and
taking the four months old child of her widowed
daughter in her arms, told the family to follow.
leading the way TO the roof The boy BENJAMIN
was ""HVu, uhu suploslHS oh"" no "1""'~A 49,
gone down stairs. pulled his little sister Mildred
ont Of bed, and started down.
1t was at this time that Policeman Gilmore.
passing the opposite side Of the street, saw the
inmates Of the building frantically screaming at
the windows He sent out an alarm and then
breaking in the front door driven back by
the rush of flames and smoke. At the time Mrs.
Tufts and her family, with the exception OF the
boy Benjamin and his little sister Mildred, had
found breathing space the roof Benjamin. as
circumstances afterward indicated, after follow
ing his mother, as he supposed, with his little
sister in his arms was forced by the smoke ID
make his way back upstairs. where he fell sense-
less 10 the floor The other inmates Of the house
by this time had either escaped by the stairway
or were frantically calling for help from the
windows.
The alarm of fire sent in by Gilmore was re-
sponded to by trucks and 8 and three engine
companies. BY the time they arrived the puiid-
ing was almost completely enveoped In SMOKE
but the people at the windows could De seen.
Many were getting ready to jump from the thlrd
floor but the crowd cried to them TO- trust 10 the
fremen They were all subsequently taken lrom
their perious positions by firemen
The first men to jump off the trucks were fire-
men Brady and Thomas Gallagher, who, cropping
their way up tne stalrs, Ieaonc" '"" ''P
dssnite the flames. Under the mantelpiecc on the
floor Fireman Brady found the child Mildred u''-
conscious He was carrying her downstairs when
he was met by Policeman McConaghy. Inc hre-
man gave the child to McConaghy, who
ran with her to the Eastern District
Uospital. four blocks away. Brady, the fireman.
oroned his way back upstairs and found the boy
Reniamin unconscious near the scutte leading
20 the roof He climbed to the roof with his
burden. and when the boy opened his eyes tho
tirst thing he said was Where's mother =
''s' "Mothers ioa ali right said the fireman Are
YOU much hurt?" ,, r,. ~s;,dr.dp
I'm little burned. but I'm all right" .ae Yet the
little fellow died at the Eastern Distrco nospia. M
bow into the building next door; no 2oa broaa,
way. The fireman placed the Httle sunereI Si
the floor The occupants OF the Duliung. ~;
Oblecs and family, were asked 10 st pas rte a. the
He will dirty the bedclothes. Let the ooy
sit on chair until the doctor comes mes .s,rr for
his mother and suffering intense agony. ne waS S
afterward taken to st. Catherines hospIal slu
died asking for his mother, 1or ne uiu hoO ie0'S'
The inmates on the third floor were rescued oy
rho fremen, Josie and Maud Tufts were not
able 70 make their way down stairs ana haa u, 10
escape by the front window. This they dId oy
cIimHinc down the pulley ropes. Policemen tracy,
WrKee' Cook and 'Trehani did good work In
rcscnng people rumor that five Of the osad occm,
pants of the building were ones %esS however.
ali turned up safe and sound Yesterday,
.J,sie Tufts is now at st. GATHERINGS tiospltai,
where she has had several hemorTnas;S; 's;n;, T"Sts
Tufts suffers from severe shock iaNihia iui'c
had both her arms and feet burned alpost to
crisp. , .,r .o,, ord ,rvr;tura
was only about S3,3oo