Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-06-17
WOMAN AND TWO MEN LOSE
THEIR LIVES.

Other People Seriously Injured-The
Building Sheltered Two Hundred
and Fifty Employees Mad Rush for
Safety Removing the Sufferers
Wild Actions of the Inmates.
NEW York. June 13.-The six-story
building filed with sweater shops at
10 and T. Montgomery Street caught
fire al $50 O'Clock and in the wild rush
to the street of the 250 people working
there three wore killed and several in
jured.
The tremen are still securing the
different floors of the burned building
and it is probable that their search
will result in add ng to the dead list.
The dead so fur as is known at pres
ent are:
Celia Davis, Is years old.
Akives Book, IS
Joseph MendelShon, 20.
Annie KatZen, 16.
Fatally injured;
Morris Maidstone, his daughter
Alice, 13 years.
Others injured:
Morris Siegel, 45.
Gussie Oguslausky, IS.
Simon Gorkgoff, 50.
Meyerham, 6J.
John Kerschoft.
neelues Unese many people suffered
slight injuries in scrambllng and fall
ing down the fire escapes. The blaze
started on the first floor where Shlev-
lexis people were at work. The in
mates were men, women ana children
of all ages. 1t is supposed that the
fire started from the stove used for
heating irons. The stove was near the
stairway and in "a few seconds the
flames Shot up as far as the third
and fourth floors. Then the panic
followed The inmates who were
Polish Hebrews and excitable under
any cir umstances, were mad
dened There was no escape from the
rear OF the building. No fire-escapes
were there and even il there had been
there was no way to take advantage
of them, for iron shutters spiked in all
the windows Oh the rear side. The $50
people rushed to the fire escapes in
front and fought there like demons
The whole front Of the building was
alive with men and women All were
fighting for good places on the frees
capes The women appeared TO be
more composed than the men for the
latter fought furiously One would
make an attempt to go down through
the manhole in hre-escape, when a
dozen would pul him back. The
flames burst like a rocket from the
second and third fl ors and leaped out
4 l.. -
m emit that had existed was outdone a
hundred times by the panic which fol-
lowed There was no longer any
fighting on the fire-escapes The peo-
pie dashed through the manholes in
the fire escapes like rats running from
danger. The little balcony, over
flowed aud then men and women
jumped to the pavement. The first
to jump was a large woman. She
lighted on the iron railing in front of
the building and rolled over dead. A
man jumped further into the street
and his head struck the pavement. His
skull was crushed in and he never
moved 4 second man followed him
in an instant He too, struck on hi S
head, but did not die Immediately. A
young girl was tho fourth to leap out
She fell on her side. A hook and lad
der truck had arrived by this time and
the long aling ladders were
erected against the hre-escapes
and the people who still stood
there were taken down. Some
scrambled across from the first bal
cony TO a little ledge on the next
building and lowered themselves by
that way, One Of the men who had
jumped was taken into liquor store
on the corner. He died three minutes
later. Mrs. G. Augustovosky was
taken to drug store and had her
wounds dressed. She and man who
had become stark mad were sent TO
the hospital in one am bulance. About
dozen were treated at a nearby hos
pital and five will probably die. There
woman was identified as Alice Davis
of 30 Suffolk Street. Three horses in
a stable were burned to death