New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-22
BADLY INJURED AT A FIRE
ro1-R WOMEN JUMP FROM A BLAZING BUILD
ING AND ARE SERIOUSLY HURT.
,.,, op THEM WILL PROBABLY DIE-A BOY WHO
FOLLOWS THE WOMEN BREAKS HIS ARM
,,rrN,x HIT on THE HEAD BY


:, This city. has had hard luck with fire -Four
-. ~ IN his business career he has been burned
~ The first blaze on one Christmas Eve
- vesrs ayo DESTROYED the old CaNton pulii-
-, =, Contra and Leonard sts.. and sacrificed the
No. At six women The second fire, sN years
h.ck drove him out of the Five Points into Inc
Century building. But there his singular iae
followed him and in 1889 hre again 'ooh MS
'.oc, His MUCK. however, was indomitable
Driven out OF The Century" Building, he es'ao
lished himself in the handsome new red-pricN
factory. No lOS West EightcentI'-st., just iei'
bv lis owner George lIeyman, an nphois'eref'
For four years al! went smoothly ana IL n'e,ncu
chat At last Mr. Alexander had shaken
on tbe III luck that had followed hlm. bu' 'o-
dav nothing except a charrei blackcned shell re-
mains Of the building, and Nj. Alexander is once
marc in the street Worse still, in the panic
,,lich followed on the discovery of yesterday
fire fonr women Jumped from an upper story 10
the ground one of them sustaining injuries ITO"
which she will probably die. fireman was
injured on the head hy a falling oricN' ana
ho, following the women in their leap, Is no~
oorrvinc his broken arm in IL sling. On Tuesday
rigbt sour one discovered blaze which haa
broken out among some loose twinin2 unucr 'lic
main stairway on the ground fooi. Ihe Top ol
,h. b.an of tvinnc was ablaze and burning the
staircase The tlrenen were called IN ana p"
ont the blaze ,riiing one. inside OF ten minutes
William storms, the superintendent oil 'he
factory and the son-in-law Of Mr. Alexander, IN
trying Ia account for the fire OF yesterday, says
that the first blaze was not entirely put out; but
thief Campbell. of the Seventh Battalion Is ao-
solutelv sure that it was lhe factory, SIN
stories in height and fronting on EHliteentll-st''
little way west OF SiXthave extends Ddck
about 100 feet TO Seventeenth-st. In the rear oil
the building are the stables of William Nogt, an
eypressman, No. 1O7 West Seventccnth-st. ana
Sheppard Knapp, No 100. East of the ouild'
ing in Eghteenthst., is barber shop, run oy
Peter Schnaie. while on the western side Joseph
Shedecor runs picture-framin2 store. On 'he
east side of The building fire ladder runs down
to the roof OF Schmae's three story house, while
the rear wall is covered with tire ladders ana
balconies.
At $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon seventy
girls and thirty five men were at work in the
building, the sewing-room on the sixth noor
being given over entirely TO women. No one
knows exactly where the fire originated. ono
story is that it began among the remnants OF
Tuesday nights blaze; another says thai heap
cf burning paper in the centre OF the rear cellar,
smouldering for hourse before its discovery, was
the cause Albert Dobler, the engineer, smelied
smoke coming from the basement az 4 90 O'Clock
in the afternoon and called Mr.. Storms. 1hey
went down into the cellar on q tour OF investlga-
ton.
Just about the time that the engineer and Mr..
Storms went down into the cellar. one oi Tue
women on the fourth floor looking down the eie-
vator shaft saw. she thought. pull OF smoke
She cried out and instantly there was rush Of
. the girls to the escapes Miss Agnes Vogt, stand
ing at tine rear door of her fathers house. saw
ri. tbn wi
10 the escapes and in the same moment tall,
dar, man with black mu-tache, said TO the
Foreman Brounsworth. stepped out of ii rear
window TO the roof of the Voct stable. AMI way
ing his hands, cried, Go back, go back, there 5
no danger The girls turned back to their
work. But the pungent odor OF inc
smoke rising rapidly through the smart
told the women that there was danger. Then
from the floors below went mp the cry Of " Fire :.
as the men downstairs saw the flames ourSt
into their rooms The women on the top moor
ian to the escapes The majority made lor inc
east side and cambercd down the ladder, whcre
the men already ont were waiting to take theih
But the rest Of the had gone to the
escsus, balconies in the rear They got down
from the sixth to the fourth floor; there iour
of them frightened by the flames bursting ou'
Of the lower rear windows were seized VIII"
panic The Others pushed boldly 1orward ln'o
the arms of young Henry ID and William >. SoS''
climbing TO their rescue. One by one dozeh ~
the women were helped down TO the roof OF 'ht
stable. bit the four left behind huddled togethei
on the fourth balcony The smoke choked 'lem
the flames scorchcd them. and at last WIN
shrek Annie 1immons young woman, thre"
herself over the rails and down thirty fect 10 'h'
stable roof As she struck the shed she rolieo
over and down into the narrow space pe'"'eh
the Vogt and Sheppard stables, her hcad s'ri>ih5
the roof of dog kennel. There she lay hio,ioh
less and bleeding. Girls, I'm gong to 1oiIo"
Annie cried Mary Fitzpatrick, she Jumped
Harnah Van Ordcn and Mary MCNAMARA
followed her. Miss Van Ordcn struck on hei
back, the others landed on their feet
William Hayes, William Willct,s and an eX
fireman named Cramcr Lad carried Miss Iimmon'
into No. 10 West Seventecntl-st, where fathci
McKlnnom. OF st. Francis Xayicrs Church, at
ininistered extreme unction. 1hen she was 'aNcf
to the New-York Hospital. Her back Is lnIureu
she is suffering from shock ana internal lmJih
and will probably die. Miss Van Orden, rarllec
into No. ll0 West Scventccnth-st by the Nos
boys, has sustained internal injuries ana hef con
Son h most t f1roNs M Ms MGHSIhra haf de deaa
from shock, was taken 10 her home. Mrs. Mar
Molloy jumped from the third floor to the VOC
stable and escaped with only few contuSioiia
Daniel Connolly, employed as feeder bN
Mr. Alexander had seen the four women Jump an.
saw that Annie Monalan and an oid wo,ia, M,
named Donovan remained behind. moaning. VIZ
fright as the flames crcpt around them. ID ti'
ladder he ran, and. scizng Miss Donovan, carre'
her down 10 safety then back for the s"coi,
time he went. and, though blind and dizzy wltl
smoke. dragged Miss Monahan away, ano
, thus saved two lives. Clarence Brennan, cap
tain Of Truck Company No. 3, was struck ny nI
falling brick. and sustained a scalp wouh9
while Il lad named Irving jumped from secoho
f1onr window and broke his
Mr. Storms estimates the loss the stoc'
alone NJ $3.50. 900 Chief Bonrer puts the figure
at $4,000: in all probability the total Io,
on the stock and the building. which was com
plctcly guttcd will not exceed Slj0,o0o.
A FIERCE BLAZE IN GOLDsT
Damage 10 the extent Of So5 900 was caused yes
tcrday by a fire which broke out in the fourth stor