New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-29
4 SIMMER RESORT INCIDENT
YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT WESTERN CYCLONES
But LISTEN To THIS

Yor, HAVE HEARD ABOUT WESTERN CYCLONES.
But LISTEN To THIS.
The Summer resorters' at beach not FAR from
New-York challenging the record win the
following, of recent occurrence
A fire broke out IN the cellar OF one OF the large
cottages about 4:3O =. NJ OF all the household not
one man was on the spot The usual quota had
gone to town on the morning trains. The dominic
was up the beach and the broker was sailing on
the bay. The brokers' wife is pretty ana brave
and Christian Endeavorer." AS the black smoke
rolled into the cottage kitchen she handed her
baby to her mother, pinned on her Endeavor badge
and tore for the hotel n good quarter OF mile
away She flew on the feet OF desperation. stag
gered into the office gasped Cottage afre. Hep!
and promptly fell in faint Both doctors look
her in hand; the hotel manager walked from MS
afternoon nap. and. robed only In stockings shirt
and trousers with suspenders loose and streaming
astern like twin tails OF comet. rushed FOR the
cottage After him came the deputy constable and
then the chief clerk and then a straggle OF 'hep
from all quarters.
Meantime things were fast and furious among
the plucky but terror-stricken women at the fire.
The dominie's wife had clutched night robe OF
dazzling array and sprinting to the front and
centre. waved 1t wig-wag at her distant husband.
TIL she. too collapsed. The dominic saw from afar
and chuming up the beach in cloud OF sand
and speed. waxing hot as he came
Upstairs. in n where the smoke was black
ening and thckening. the lawyers wire was "res-
Ting back into her trunks all the household goods.
irrespective OF kind place harmony OF arrange,
ment. While she worked the hotel brigade 'raSned
into the windows with garden hose. wet every
a as'ms and Shovels fell sfoui Of aOor and ceiling
choPpng through one and rppins o Sfo Dig Se''0"
Downstairs the servant threw one pan pail OF wa,sr
the fire and on rd pa hy,t Tl Stops over
Into the thick OF II had gone me mhnaser' nm
VI hI
stable and In another moment he. too tumbied
win hear; asT' t1 and da sSTs was another
Now came the broker. his sail cut shor, oy a
h1 Of SOME the on spared by the ok
shouted that his wife lay dead at the h2te' natn
haby that she feared was burned. Back again he
staggered. besanded. breathless. eIhausteds; des
perate TO find his baby safe and his mother IN
law frantic for her daughter Back again 70 the
hotel with her he tottered .,-,-,., noh
was sackns properly shouted wholesae orders
lv the lessee attacked him. Whereupon In came
the Dominic s wnaa ron n sslc cnf the 50 Ga
the proprietor OF the hotel newspaper department
we'll, and as he went he took with him plenty Of
ncsh from the back OF the doninie.s hand and the
Two Italian laborers were in IT, too They
threshed the aTysrs trunks n9 ,o1 me @, iSn onv
stairway in the cottage. Then they rescued inc
bed springs from two beds Ghosed tns m nn
both crashed to the bottom
Then the dominic. with blood from his hand tra-
ing awake Jumped with n roar into the bathroom
Here a frantic citizen, for want OF Somcthlng pt,I
70 do was chopping the hathtuh The nghting par
SON tackled him and stopped him In one round =.
Wells from the attic he rushed there. ana lounn
n maid servant her trunk screaming thn' soi'o
one must save her insurance policy 80, -.
A crash and a from the crowd outsldc LOT
the citizen who was baling with bucket an upper
room lost his grip. let go the bucket water SAM
mud and all They fell upon the hcnf OF an on
looking citizen below. sprawling him on the sanh
lie was knocked unconscious fallen upon by the
doctors resuscitatcd. and then was hot Tor Hsht
But the fire out and the broker "'Ie was
the hero OF the beach