Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-14
KILLED IN 4 PANIC.

The Employees of . Sweating Shop Become Terror Stricken and Make Mad Rush for the only Fire Escape on the BuiIding-The Un- fortunate People When They Jumped Landed on Their Heads and Chests.
 NEW YORK, June 13.-A fire In q sweat
 CTS clothing factory in the double six
 story brick building Nos. 10 and 1a Mont- gomsry street caused the loss of four lives
 soon after 8 o'clock this morning and in- jursd more or less seriously, perhaps In some cases fatally, c number of other per sons. There was but one fire escape to the buildings, and that in front. It failed to be of use, owing to the distance from its lower part to the ground.
 The dead are: Cecilia Davis, @, killed by jumping; Simon Gorkopp, 55, Killed by jumping on an iron railing; Akivis Boos, 2S, died from suftooation and shock; Nor ris Neddleston, 8s, died in police station, badly burned about the head and body.
 The injured are: Augustus Agustorsay, Greenhaus, fractured right leg; Samuel Grocapp, cuts on forehead; Alice Neddles- ton, IS, compound fracture of legs and burned on body, will die; Gussie Ogalons- ki, IS, fractured thigh, burns on body, will die; Meyer Hermsns, 42. scalp wounds; Annie Katzman, 16, burns on body; Sieeel Morris, 45, leg hurt; unknown man, suf- fering from sprained ankle.
 Three alarms were sent in soon after the fire was discovered. The two hundred working people in the doomed building, who were Russian and Polish Jews, were seized with panic the instant they per ceived that their egress down the stairway was cut off by the flames. With one &C., cord they made a mad rush for front win dows leading to the fire escape. There were no apparent efforts to favor the wo- men or the weak. There was but one i'm pulse-to obey the first law of nature.
 From the lower platform of the iron fire escape at the top of the first story 1t was no small distance to the ground, and there was no ladder there to use. The first to arrive there hesitated and delayed until the column of fuRitives above them pressed down in @ msss and crushed the layer of humanity at the base.
 Officer Cronin urged those who were frst at the bottom to jump, and stood waiting to break the force of their fall with his arms outstretched. The fright ened people finally obeyed. Beneath the fire escape there was unfortunately an iron railing. The unfortunstes who jumped all seemed to come down on their heads and chests.
 Cecilia Davis worked on the fifth floor. After reaching the windows she climbed down the fire escape to the first floor, where the struggling crowd was huddled with their clothes burning. Her dress caught fire, but she clung desperately to the escape until 1t became so hot as to burn her hands. Officer Cronin was standing below, and called to her to jump. She did so, but jumping too far out, fell to the sidewalk and was instantly killed. Her clothes were almost burned of her body.
 Truck No. 6 was the first to arrive, and ladders were immediately raised to the fire escape. The fremen helped the rest of the men and women down. Several of the people imprisoned on the first floor found an exit by getting Into the cellar and going up the back steps into the rear yard.
 The fire is believed to have been caused by cigarette carelessly thrown on the floor.
 All of the ambulsnces from the Gouver- neur hospital and one from Chambers street were called to the fire. Five sur geons were promptly on hand. The fire WAS soon extinguished. The loss on the building and stock is estimated at $l0, 900.