The evening world., 1894-05-31
EDITION.
FIRE FOLLOWS
An EXPLOSION.
Little Girl. Burned to Death
in a Suffolk Street
Tenement House.
QUILT USED As 4 LIFE NET.
Children Dropped Into It from
Upper Windows Through
q Sheet Of Flame.
THEN THEIR PARENTS JUMPED.
Front Of DistilIery on
the Ground Floor
Blown Out.
QUILT USED As A LIFE NET.
THEN THEIR PARENTS JUMPED.

Lizzie Yaeger, four years old. ~
burned to death in q fire which folloWD4
an explosion in a distillery on Che
ground floor of the six-story tenement
129 Suffolk street ut $50 o'clock this
morning. Four other people were taken
to the hospital seriously injured. FIJI
teen children were thrown from win
dows during the panic which ensued.
and nearly everybody living in the house
had a narrow escape 10 - 5 life, a
the flames spread with such rapidity
hat all means Of escape from the house
were cut off.
Policemen Grancher. Schriever and
Byers were standing half a block from
the house when they heard a low rum
bling. followed Immediately by q terrific
explosion. To the policemen II looked
as though the entire building had been
blown UP. The street was filled with
flying bricks and glass. the whole on
veloped In smoke and flames.
Blew Out the Distillery Front.
While Policeman Grancher turned in
an alarm the others rushed tosthe burn
ing building. They found h the ex-
nlosion had blown out the entire front Of
Solomon Kleinrock's distillery on the
ground floor. The framework of the
windows had been blown into the houses
across the street.
The entire ground floor of the building
was afire. the flames belching half way
across the street.
by the explosion the fright-
ened tenants crowded to their windows
ana screamed wildly for help. The
pohcenien were powerless to render aid.
soon the hre-escapes in h front and
rear were crowded, but the people could
not reaeh the street by them because of
the fierce flames below,
IN the rear OF the distillery Klein
TUCK Ives with his wife and five chill
uIeh' Ihey all succeeded in getting ont
vi d rear door. The other half Of ths
ground floor is a milk store kept by ID.
ROCK and Becky Roth. The milk d..li
srs got out of the house, but foreot fbse
rear room. y" sAs
uIsAA
man the Blazing Hall.
he awoke to nnd the hall a BURNING
urnace.. With his fist he broke ths
e essss or tbs sfe resr window. hoping to
By 1 he ina. ~S %iind s"t w ;ss, c %aHs
place Iburglar-proof. Both his hands
mere deepiy cut by the glass. Finding
throusb was aS. no ho other way. he rushed
burned and bleeding. e"
"A series Of circumstances prevented
the fremen from reaching the burnin3
fore there had been an alarm sent ont
for a fire at 2S2 Broome street. 40 tSsS
mere nd were only Engine Company. No.
spond to this fire. The houses OF both
these companies are situated a consid-
cradle distance away:
sent out the alarm, Louis Zeiltner. who
also heard the explosion and saw h
names; sent out an alarm from am
otner pox' This served to perplex thu
only two available companies.
Ihere was just one corner of the houss
on the north side which the flames had
the direction of the policemen Who
yelled out Instructions from the street.
the men women who crowded the
window, along a narrow coping and into
the window OF the house next door, No.
While these people were making their
p%erilous escape in the front Of the house.
the situation in the rear was even
worse.
Louis Mailman, of l42 Norfolk street.
ing, and Isaac Frankenstein. of the
same house, got a big quilt.
Child Dropped Into n Quilt.
Each holding an end OF It. forming q
net, they directed the people In the
WINDOWS above TO nrop their children.
men who were holding the quilt and the
people hemmed In above. II seemed
certain death for the children to be
dropped through IT with the bare chance
OF them landing In the quilt. But II
was the only. chance to save them.
Philip Marks was the first to throw
HIS ~three-year.old child. 1t landed safe
ly, in the quilt. This encouraged the
others, and all wanted to drop their
children at once. Marks dropped his six
remaining children, and five of Mrs.
followed. Then half a dozen from the
third floor were dropped.
After the children landed In the quilt
they were passed over a rear fence tn
Rose Michaels, a neighbor. Who carried
them to n place of safety.
Then n Elder People Jumped.
HYman EhrenMost. who with hia via