New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-14

SCENE OF THE FIRE IN MONTGOMERY-ST.
the panic-stricken inmates Of the building after
the flames began to spread There were frees
capes on the front wall of the building, but they
were too small TO accommodate the people who
were trying TO escape. The ladders and balconies
were filled quickly Then there was blockade
on the lower balconies Men and women trampled
on each other in a mad rush down the iron lad
ders The lowest ladder was not in place
Flames shot out OF the front windows and burned
the people on the ladders and balconies. Then
the desperate people Jumped from the fre-escapes
by dozens. Two men and n woman were killed
outright. Another man and two girls in
jured fatally. one Of the girls dying later in uos
pital while the man and the other girl were said
to be dying. number of other persons were
hurt by jumping from the horoscopes or from
the windows at the sides OF tho building. Others
were burned severely before they could escape
Later, when the bodies of the dead had been
identified and the names Of the injured persons had
been told at the hospitals. the following lists of
the dead and injured were obtained:
THE DEAD.
BOON, Atves, . Rrssian Hebrew tailor twenty she
years old fell from the front nrrescape upon the sharp
suks Of iron railing and his abdomen cue opcn.
His skull was fractured also and his death In
Simultaneous lie lived at No. :, Eidrldcest. His
cousin, Joseph 'tfDln, OF NO. 90 claimed
bis body
DAVIS, Celia. was Killed by a fall from nrccscape
she had been burned seriously Several bon.s u
her body were broken. She twcnty three yeafs
old and lived at No. % surolA-st. Her BODY was
claimed BY her sister. Mrs. Mary Cohen, Of No. 1856
Madison-st.
RATTAN. Annie. sixteen years old daughter Of Joseph
Kat1an OF No 49, East Eightyseyenth-st. burned
from head before she escaped from the building
She carried "a the Gouyerneur Hospital. where
she died at D. III.
MESDELSsOHN, Joseph. twcntyfour Wars old. an IN
married Russian tailor. fractured his skull by jumping
from nre-escape. and died few minutes later.
He lodged at No. IL Ptst., and was said 10 have
no relatives In the city. His body recognized by
his roommate. David Cassel
NA1HAXsOX Alice thirteen years DID, and daughter O,
Morris Nathanson was burned and had her arm broken
bv falling from a fire escape. She was taken 70
Gouyerneur Hospital where she died last night.
THE INJURED:
AuGrsTOvsKY Augusta. eighteen years old. who
came 10 this city from Russia years and lived
AZ no As surolk-st-. suffered from broken thigh
and severe burns. she taken 10 the Gouverneur
Uospltal and later was IN Bellevue Hospital
AMBERG Israel tweutyse'en years old, OF NO ~
Ludlow.st. injured his chest BY Jumping from the
first story o, building. lie was removed TO
Couvemeur Hospital.
c,.pKoFt simon, nftynve a Russian tailor. who had
lived in the city two years. received scalp "ou''
and probable fracture of the skull by jumping nom
the fire escape. He lived q. No - cinton-'t In
the afternoon he was transferred from inc "ou'''"'''
Uoepital 10 Bellevue Hospital
urpMAxsOS Meyer fortytwo years old. tailor. o'
No Is Eldildse.st. cut his head severely py jumping
from the fire escape lie went To his nome S'e'
having his head dressed OF the hospital
MEYERS Heyman. forty.two a Russian Hebrew 'a''o'
- Va 55 Eldrdse.s,., received sever scalp wonhd
bv jumping from lie went TO his home
from the Gouverner Hospital In the AFTERNOON.
NATHANSON. Morris, who had the ehop oh 'ne 10y
floor OF the building burned about MS 'a'e ana
he ag.d a lie was fitHr''u
70 he diving at the Hospital later IN 'he
day III. home at No. : Pit-st
sIEGFIi Norris fof'y.nye Russian Hebrew pcne'' vi
40 I55 Dyision-st, In the building "heh inc 'fe
broke out and he hurt both Of his legs by jumping
from the nre-escaIe. lie was sent 10 '"'c'"e nus
rital nom Gou,crnour Hospital.
xl,ttilCU ST., George. thiriyfN years "iu' ~''o VI
81. 6. Isscxst jumped from fouFth-story "in'ow
- ,,c roo, of an oy,cnsion OF the building No. Mont
con,rv.st The small bones OF one OF his ieet were
broken. taken to his home
DESCRIPTION OF THE Bu1LDTNG.
The burned building is only twenty-five feet in
aon,h with y fronta,e of about fifty feet II
bconos 10 Solomon Alter Of No MONTGOMERY
At who erected il three years ago. Mr. IIn-
mermau a soda water manufacturer, has occu-
MED thc basement and ground floor as stable.
The other stories from the second 10 the SIXTH IN
elusive were occupied respectively as Wiior
shous BIZ Isdof Schlivck. VI. Becker, Herman Sill
yerstcin. J. Kaufman and Morris Williamson. Only
| Russian Hebrews were employed III the shops.
START or THE FATAL FIRE.
H. was about 80 a. m. yesterday when the
flames started in lseckers shop on the third hoor
Of the hnilding No person could tell later how
the flames originated. Bcnzine, used by the
tailors in cleaning cloth, probably helped 10
make the fire spread NOR rapidly Inc tnilorS
nm the second tlrd and fourth floors nearly all
managed TO get ont unhnrt but the stairs were
ON fire before the people AT work on the fifth and
sixtb go,,s were warned Of their peril. Police
| man Cropiu rang an alarm for the irrinen dnl got
| IN the luildno a. the men. women and girl. from
tho INNER stories were crowding the iire-eseapss
an the front waIl Tie lower balcony, twelve
foot ah,v" ;he cro,ind, pa 3Srl almost 10
suilocation with tine frantic people who stru.-
olcd willy 10 reach the opening where the ladder
I Should have been in Place The ladder hing al
| one end of the balcony railing, out Of the reach
| of the policeman Before any attempt could DE
| made TO rais. "A ladder from below. the flames
| began 10 shoe; out OF the front windows against
the faces and bodies OF the persons on the ladder:
and balconies
PEOPLE JUMPED FROM BALCONIES.
The persons who were left on the fre-escapes
couh not STAY there without being burned. and
they Jumped or fell from the balconies in con-
fusion. One man. Book, fell so that his body