The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-09
FELL on MEAT HOOKS.
Epstein Dropped from the Fire
Escape and Has Badly Hurt
Fire Caused a Panic In q Division
Street ment-Houss.
Barbed.Wire Fences and Nailed
seuttles Added Terrors.

About 1 o'clock this morning a FIRE.
having every appearance OF incendiary
origin. broke out In the crowded three
story tenement-house at 1859 Division
street.
In the panic which cnsued one man
was badly hurt by jumping woman
was burned severely and many others
had narrow escapes.
Policeman Hendry saw the smoke COM
ing from the second story window. He
called to q passing citizen. who ran to
the nearest box and turned In an alarm.
Hendry broke open the door with the
intention OF waking the occupants but the
smoke and flames that filled the narrow
hall deferred him.
AS he hesitated to enter. q man and
q woman. each carrying two children In
their arms, rushed down the burning
stairs Into the streets. They were clad
only In their night clothing. The fiamee
caught the fiimsy skirt of one OF the
children, but II was torn from the child
before doing any further harm than u
slight scorching
Only six persons escaped by the stair
way-Morris Zarachovitz. janitor OF the
house. his wife and their four children
The janitor was asleep on the roof. He
his family slept and hurried them out
His loud cries as he ran had aroused the
other inmates Of the house.
AZ the policeman stood In the street
calling loudly, he could hear the frantic
cries Of the people imprisoned In the
house, and the tramp OF hurrying feet.
mingled with the roar OF the flames and
the crackls Of burning timbers.
The fre started under the stairway on
the ground floor. and was rapidly extend
ing towards the upper stories when dis
covered.
The people nooked from their rooms
only to be met by volumes OF thick
smoke. Some of them reached the fire
escapes, but the connecting ladder from
the second floor 10 the ground was miss
Wsy s wai By Out the ee sars they R n eft
the escapes and took 70 the roof.
stairs after the janitor and his family
handkerchief to her face and got half
way down. when a heavy board fell on
her arms. She was burned SO badly
that her arms became useless. and she
gave up the attempt and ran for the
roof.
Jacob Epstein and hts wife lived on
the third h.yy saxeS STn the
second floor. where they were driven to
But tine flames were there, too, 10
Epstein climbed over the railing. hung
by his hands for an instant and dropped.
Below the escape. on the first floor,
door are Big hooks Of; which meat Is
Epstein fell directly on these hooks
Hls right arm SsTshtt u ,s on: Of them
from above Then the desh Of his arm
rave way and he dropped to the side
taken to the hospital.
stein not to Jump; Tourteen-ysar-olt
window and stood alongside Of her
tried to hold her. But she climbed over
the side OF the escape and hung dowI
surely fan, But she tearsd to drop
and there she hung until Policeman Sui
Ivan ,s secured r ladder and rescued he'
n, 1T was then that the tremen arrived
The people on the roof were frantic
They had made their way to the tor
%%urthser. for ths s:ajoiniIT house was ST.
tected with a barSei wire fence. or
one side was the burning building. OF
/ the other the wire guarded wall.
There the people waited shiverirg II
their night clothes.
At last the firemen got up through the
house No. 1885, The scuttle on the house
f, where the people stood was nailed
down. Then the nremen tore down this
wire fence and dragged the frightened
group up beside them.
tineyished. Eight families were mad.
destitute: The loss is estimated al
| 81 600. The hremen regard II as a very
suspicious fire. and an Investigation will
be made.
Fell Iato . Cellar.
Patrick Brady. twenty-five years old. a waite
| In the Chatham Square Hotel. was sitting on
railing In front o; the Bennett Building at Nss
sau and Ann streets this mornins when he los
his balance and fell Into tho collar The rois
| Of Bradys fall attrsoted the attention OF tn
| occupants Of the calsf, who ran TO his ass!s,
anS. He Was picked up unconscious, ami n
| ambulance took him 10 Chambers Street Hoapi
tai. where II was discovered that he had frsc
tursd bis skull and will probably die.
|
Cotton Burned at Cohoes.
(By Associated Ptsss)
ALBANY. July s.--Ftre started In the Hsr
mony Cotton Mills storshouss =, cohoes late las
night. and nearly q thousand bales Of cotton wsr