The evening world., 1894-05-31
FIRE FOLLOWS
AN EXPLOSION.
Little Girl Burned to Oath
in a Suffolk Street
Tenement House.
QUILT USED As A LIFE NET.
Children Dropped Into 1t from
Upper Windows Through
q Sheet of Flame.
THEN THEIR PARENTS JUMPED.
Front Of a DistilIery on
the Ground Floor
Blown Out.
THEN THEIR PARENTS JUMPED.

Lizzie Yaeger, -four years old. was
burned to death In a fire which followed
an explosion in a distillery on the
ground foor of the six-story tenement
1923 Suffolk street at 4.30 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 u narrow escape for his life. as
the m spread with such rapidity
that all means of escape from the house
were cut off.
Policemen Grancher. Schriever and
Byers were standing half u block from
the house when they heard u low rum
bling, followed Immediately by a terrific
explosion. To the policemen 1t looked
as though the entire building had been
blown up. The street was filled with
flying bricks and glass, the whole en-
veloped in smoke and flames.
Blew Out the DistiIIcry Front.
While Policeman Grancher turned In
an alarm the others rushed to the burn
Ing building. They found that 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 ioor of the building
was afire, the flames belching half way
across the street.
Awakened by the explosion the fright
ehed tenants rowde to their windows
and screamed wildly for helm. The
poiiceiheh were powerless to render aid
soon the flre-escapes In the front and
rear were crowded, but the people could
not reach the street by them because of
the fierce flames below.
In the rear Of the distillery Kiln
rock lives with his wife and five chill
dren. They all succeeded In getting ont
or a rear door. The other half NJ IN.
ground floor Is n milk store kent nv II
ROCK and Becky Roth. The milk deaI-
ers got out OF the house, but forgot tina :
solomon Rothsky was sleeping in tbs
rear room.
Han Through the BIaxing unI.
He awoke to find the hall a burning
furnace. With his fist he broke the
glass OF the rear window. hopinp tn
escape that way, but was c%onfronted
~ the heavy windows that make The
place burglar-proof. Both his hands
t Mere sspiy cut by the glass. Finding
through the hall and reached the street
burned and bleeding.
"A series OF circumstances prevented
me mremen from reaching the burning
pulldinH early, only n few minutes be-
Iore there had been an alarm sent out
Tor a fire at 30 Broom street. so thai
mere were only Engine Company No.
spond TO this fire. The houses OF both
these companies are situate n consid.
cradle distance away;
Then. too after the policeman had
sent out the alarm, Louis Zeiltner, who
also heard the explosion and saw the
names, sent out an alarm from an
other box. This served TO perplex the
only two available companies.
There was just one corner of the house
on the north side which the flames had
not reached In the lower part. Under
me direction of the policemen who
the men and women who crowded the
escapes, climbed out OF the s~econd-story
Window along n narrow coping and into
the window of the house next door, No,
1871. "
While these people were making their
perllous escape In the front OF the house.
the situation in the rear was even
worse.
Louis Waltman, OF l42 Norfolk street.
which is just back OF the burning build
Ing, II Isaac Frankenstcin, OF the
same house, got Il big quilt.
Child Dropped Into n QuiIt.
Each holding an end OF II, forming n
net, they directed the people in the
windows above to drop their children.
There was a sheet of flame between the
men who were holding the quilt and the
people hemmed in above. II seemed
certain death for the children To be
dropped through II with the bare chance
OF them landing in the quilt. But Il
was the only chance TO save them.
Philip Marks was the first 10 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 i've of Mrs.
| Herman Werdenfeld, on the same floor,
followed. Then half a dozen from the
third floor were dropped.
After the children and in the Quilt
they were passed over a rear fence TO