The sun., 1893-06-14
KILLED IN A FIRE PANIC.
A MONTGOMERY STREET FACTORY
BURNED AND FITE LIVES LOSE

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!, More Than n Hundred Russian Tsiior-, Met
q and Women. Were mt Work In the Six
n story Ru,idinr, and Many Jumped rrou
i Front vindows-Renr Windows hioesed
: There was another. serious flre on the cas-
9 side OF town yesterday morning. In which nvt
9 lives wcrc lost and $4,000 worth OF property
was destroyed. Following go closely upon tho
t destruction last Sunday night OF Hobby's ware
house In Clinton street, tho police and fire au-
} thorities nre beginning to feel that a thorough
investigation Of the origin OF both fires will he
! necessary Fire Marshal Mitchell thinks that
yesterdays fire at 10 and II Montgomery street
| was started by n lighted cigarette thrown into
, , a rubbish heap under the wooden stairway. but
tho frightened people who escaped from tho
burning building assert that II anything was
thrown into the rubbish it was done SO intcn-
tionay.
More than ono hundred Russian Jews were
at work In tho tnilors' shops which occupied
the buildings. The casualty list as made out
by the police and the Gouvorneur Hospital
authorities is as follows:
| DEAD
BOOK. Kr.. 7s Of az Edrtdge s,reet jumped from
the nth floor. and i'm palei on the iron railing in
front OF the building.
DAVIS cruA. as of as SUFFOLK street; jumped from
the top floor.
H.-rrs Assr 10. Of IA Eas. Eishty.cventh street:
|
| Hospital.
Nxnprlssonx Josrrn. 20, of 10 Pitt street; Jumped
| from the IRE escape on the third floor.
EArnAssoS, ALICE. la of Pittstree. broken arm and
severe burns: died at Gouverneur Hospital at 1920
| o'clock last night
| Axnrra IsRI.I. ~. OF 81 Ludlow street. burns and
contusions; went home.
GoHxooF. SIMON. 90, OF 81 Clinton street. Commissions
| about the hend Bellevue
GurExn.rs Josxrs. 36. of o2 Essex street iumpod
| from top noor to roof OF neighborng building and
| sprained his ankle; taken home in an ambulance
IrngSps, MrxRs. a. of 65 Eldridge street; scalp
Wound
SAru.ssos NORRIS 25 of Fit street: badly burned
| and will die; at Gouvsrneur Hospital
oGoLAxsEr Gussir. ls of az suffolk street. domestic;
fracture OF femur. ntusions and burns about tho
| head: at Gouverneur Hospital: may recover.
sEGrt. NonRis. As. of l5v Division street peldler:
confusion OF the Leg ATTENDED at Goursrneur hosptal
and went home
Tho buildings were owned by Solomon Alter
of 8 Montgomery street. They were OF brick.
six stories high with frontage Of forty.th three
feet on Montgomery street and wero only
twenty-five feet deep. The basement was used
for stable OF six horses belonging TO Zippert.
an expressman. whose wagon rooms and offices
were on the first floor. A narrow doorway led
to n dark wooden stairway not more than two
feet wide. This was the, only staircase in the
building. and it mounted n brick shaft to tho
isid9r schliyeck occupied the second story and
Hynsn slyersteiIn had thiry Ave- men On ,he
Occupied c pied by by Morris. NSthanson and about
twenty tailors and tinishers. About u dozen OF |
the employees were women.
On the ground floor. under the narrow stair |
way. was small. dark closet. in which was
above. Engineer Jacob Greenlield says there
was no fire when hs left the engine; early yes;
Undoubtedly started there. As soon as the
stiflng black smoke. which prevented escape
The employees rushed for tho front windows
to the only fire escape on the building. This
escape sH f9nssts o, smH rSn sa'so1y each
the second floor; Here there was loose lad.
der intended nd . to be dropped to the street but
and most Of them jun ped to the sidewalk III.
!oen feet below: IA this way most Of tho in
The eudpF rose h9ys the
ters. every one Of which was tightly fastened
up to the front windows OF the lower floors.
and and also from the neighborine roofs TO tho
break in the iron shutters: and then the smoke
poured as out % In such quantities that they were
down the fire escape in front. and were carried
G0wn tG the street on the rsmens ladders
schoo at 2ast Broad%ay emsed en tss
fire escape Of the next house when the fire
from q side window Of the third door. He tried
to do the same for Joseph Mendelssohn. but
Estnssd st help s5d lsaped to the street. where
Hospital. was taking breakfast to her father
on the top toor when the stampede oc-
burned in thsr irsnzod atempts at HSss escapes psa
back ysad Of & hEs LAST Tt
oWned by Mrs &nns BrneRaT Ths S"sh tsiors
were J asc3astMSmed a Mr w to throw rubbish into the
LARGE Of Were pseed a sent
OF the windows making huge shutters
SanSy psp,d hung on aho tssegsph noIss
pipe and the structure could not be east " bat
Deputy Coroner Conway and Fire Marshal
so disastrous had the windows at the rear been
free from obstruction.
tho houses were regular factory buildings. and
were inspected about a week ago.
RpSrS Sa had Ge rsn Hp
IRE was put out; They were found by the fire.
ssspg oats as ane
out m = uninjured. % A"u ""pp'n'u' anu "ef0 taken ,
q Or q, ths body Of Kiya Boox were found gold
|
The Dry Dock Savings Bank showing a bal
ance OF S20. ,
During the excitement OF the fire thieves
oroko into the house OF Solomon Alter and
stole S4OO worth OF siiverware.
Mr.. Alter says that the houses that were |
burned cost $4,000 to erect three years ago
de carried $4,000 insurance The tailOrs each
tock ,
A woman In widows dress. who gave her =
,ame as Mrs. Corey and sa id she lived In Madi-
nG Tor her seven year-old SON The lad left ]
lome for school at O'Clock yesterday morn
ne. He WAS known to have visited the factory c
occasionally on his way to school I