Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-13
JUMPED IN A PANIC.
Three Killed and Many Hurt at .
Fire.
new YORK SWEATING SHIPS BURNED.
Mad Rush of the Inmates to
Escape.
JUMPED AND WE'RE KILLED.

JUMPED AND WERE KILLED.
Fatal Panic Attending Fire in q Bufldina
of Sweater shops" i'm New York.
NEw YoRK, June l3.-The six-story building.
filed with 'sweater Shops" at Nos. 10 and II
Montgomery street caught fire at $50 O'Clock
this morning, and in the mad rush to the street
of the $50 souls working therein at tine time
three were killed and several injured
The blaze started on the first floor, where
people employed by man Of the name Of
Schlevick were at work. The inmates were
men, women and children Of all ages. nis
supposed that the fire started from the stove
used for heating irons. The stove was near the
stairway, and in few seconds the flames shot
up as far az the third and fourth floors.
Then the panic followed. The inmates all
Polish Hebrews and excitable under any cir
cumstances, were maddened There was no
escape from the rear Of the building. No Ere
escares were there. and even n they were there
was no way to take advantage Of them, for iron
shutters covered all the windows on the rear
side.
FoCGHr LIKE DEMONS Al THE FIRE EscAPKs
The $50 people rushed TO the FIRE escapes in
front aud fought there like demons. When the
police arrived the whole front OF the building
was alive with men and women. All were fight
ing for good places on the fire escapes. The
women appeared TO be more composed than the
men, for the latter fought furiously. One
would make an attemptto 90 down through
the manhole in a fire escape, when Q dossu
would pull him back.
The ladder bad not vet been lowered from
the first fire escape and thirty people were
heroed together there. Some girls had lowered
themselves through the msnhole by their hands
and dropped to the street without sustaining
any great injury.
Suddenly the flames burst like q rocket from
the second and third floors and leapsd out
nearly across the street There was no longer
any fighting on the fire escapes. The people
poured through the manhoies like water. They
fell on one another's heads they came down
and were piled three tier deep. The ladder
from the first fire escape was not yet lowered
The little balcony overhowed, and then men
and women jumped to the pavement
JUMPED TO DEATH.
The first to jump WAS a large woman. She
lighted the iron railing in front Of the build
ing and rolled over on the pavement dead A
head struck the pavement His skull was
crashed in and he never moved :. second man
followed him in an instant de. too, struck on
his head, but did not die Immediately.
Young girl was the fourth TO leap out. She
fell on her side.
All this time the police were yelling TO the
people not to jump and trying TO place the
ladder against the fire escape. The people
srv,, III a
into one officers arms and were not hurt
hook-and-iadder wagon had arrived by this
time, and the long scaling ladders were erected
against the FIRE escapes and the people who
stood there were taken down. Some scrambled
across the first balcony to q 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 dlsd
after being there three minutes.
-Four ambulances were summoned and they
came from Gouyeneur and Bellevue hospisals
Gussie Argastoysky was taken in the drug
| store across on East Broadway and had her
wounds dressed there. She and a man who
went into HAPPENS hquor store, completely out
Of mis- mind. were sent to the hospital in one
ambulance.
George Gremberg OF So Essex street was
| found with q sprained ankle.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Three or four other people with slight in
juries were sent to the hospital in the ambu-
lance. and as many walked around TO the
hospital and had their wounds dressed there.
| In all about twelve at the hospital
| Two of them will probably die. Two Of
the bodies were taken TO the Madison street
police station. There the woman was identi-
| fied as Ala Davis OF % Suffolk street She was
the only one Of the bodies burned to any ex-
tent She had been on the second foor when
the flames burst suddenly from the windows
Her clothes caught on fire. Wrapped in fire
she fell TO the first ire escape and then 10 the
street. Her clothes were burned completely
of her. For a half an hour the blaze defied
the efforts Of the fremen. Every floor was
/ fire az the same time
For blocks around the streets were packed
with people who poured like floods from their
/ dwellings and met around the fire. The police
had hard work keeping the mob in check. The
bowling of the people was terrific. Many OF
1 them had relatives who worked in the building
and their grief was taken up by their friends
until the whole neighborbood was In a uproar.
As the bodies woIe carried away TO the police
| station the crowd followed IN a rush Before
the blaze had been fairly placed under control
! Fire Chief Bonner directed the men 10 search
the building for bodies. Many who were on the
spot said that they had seen several men and
| women fall back into the flames On the top
awhile the tiremen were held at bay, for ths
ruins were sull boiling hot
The DEAD AND INJURED.
At 1890 O'Clock the list OF dead and injured
WAS at follows:
Dead-Celia Davis, eighteen years old, Of %
Suffolk street. Unknown man about thirty
years. Unknown man about twenty-eigbt
years.
The iniured-Morris Nalersion, ffty-fvs
| wears. Russian tailor Of 9th street; Alice Nal
lerton, fifteen years. his daughter. Both are
at Gouveneur Hospital badly burned and
will probably die. Annie hatsen, sixteen
years. OF s44 East S7tn street, body burned
Morris Fieijil, IS years, of i59 Division street,
coutuslons; Gussie Augustovsky, Is years, 81
Suffolk street. leg broken and commissions;
Morns Heyman, Is years, OF Go Eidridge street.
scalp wounds
All these injured people are at Gouvsneur
Hospital
Fiffy-seyen Eoupds IN n