The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-11
DEAD IN A FIRE TRAP
The Awful Wooden Tenement
House Burns Up Again
In Boston.

BOSTON, Oct. II. 1S94.-One man was
killed and six men and one woman were
badly burned or injured by jumping and
dropping from the windows of the four
story wooden tenement house, No. 23
Hanover street. corner of Hanove place,
In a fire which started in that building
at 1:40 o'clock this morning.
The name of the dead man is Charles
SWenson and his age about twenty years.
The injured are
August Johnson, aged nineteen years,
fracture of the left hip, cut over left eye
and burns.
William Kohnhessop, thirty years old,
compound fracture of the left arm and
badly burned.
Fred Kother, thirty years old, severely
burned.
Fred Nilsson, sixteen years old, hands
Louis ODER. twenty-five years old, suf-
fering from shock.
Annie Norphal, aged thirty, badly
Dietre Moore. the cook, was asleep
with the son of the proprietor, and climb
ed from one of the windows. A man
Moore fell. striking upon his would-be
rescuer and another man., n escaped
with slight burns.
The injured were taken into police sta
ton L., opposite the burning building,
where physicians did all in their power to
allay the sufferings of the unfortunates
and in the meantime an ambulance call
had been sent out, and as fast as possible
the sufferers were sent to the hospitals,
with the exception of ODER, who was
treated at the station, his condition not
being deemed serious.
WORK OF RESCUE.
Officers of Station l saw the fire and
several seized a blanket, and, rushing
into, the alley separating the burning
building from the station, made a jump
ing net, at the same time shouting to
the frenzied occupants of the lodging
house, who were hanging and leaning
from the windows, their escape being
cut Off by the flames and smoke, to stay
where they were as help was at hand,
but all to no purpose.
One ma jumped and was caught in
the ~improvised net, and at the same in
slant another dropped from the upper
windows, passing between the net and
the side of the building, n striking
upon the bear payment was instantly
Several others had either jumped or
dropped from the windows, while a few
badly burned by rushing through the
ing stairway.
Ladders were soon raised by firemen
to the upper part of the burning build
ing and several men and boys. who had
needed the warning of the police and fire
men were taken down uninjured. The
tiremen had now got fairly to work,
and in a very. short time We're masters
WAS IT INCENDIARY?
The fire, which is limited to have been
OF mcendiary origin, started in the base
the rear of the building spread through
the Railways on each of the four floors
and into the parlor OF the second floor
and front rooms on the third floor.
The ground floor, No. 213 Hanover
street, is occupied by Louise Jeselsohn,
dealer in cigars and tobacco. The en-
tire upper part of the house was oc-
cupied by Charles Nissen as a Swedish
and German lodging house, his son
Fred who was badly burned, being in
charge of the house.
On the rear is a wooden ladder for, a
fire escape, connecting with the entry
ways on each floor, but all escape by
this means was cut off practically be-
fore the occupants of the house were
aware of their danger.
The total damage to the building and
contents will not, probably, exceed
81 000.