New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-30

lost their lives. and Timothy Collins, fireman,
who lives at No. 3Ol East Elghth-st was seri-
ously injured.
The nremen had hardly gained control OF the
Rivlngton-st fire when three alarms summoned
all the available force to a fire that was rapidly
eating out the interior OF tho big double tene-
ment- house No. 81 Goerck-st. The flames rem
dered eighteen families. comprising nearly 100
people. homeless.
TRANSFORMED INTO a FURNACE.
With one exception every one Of the six floors
at No. 226 Rivington-st. was occupied with tailor
shops The exception was the ground floor,
where b. Creim had furniture store. The fire
started on the third floor in Fabricius I-evine's
tailor shop. 1t did not take more than fifteen
minutes to transform the building into veri
table cauidran of fire "NInis" '.-''s'' "'' "a
rrossnan, happened 20 be asleep In his express
wagon I'm front Of No. 226 when the fire started
Al the same moment "A man rushed from Levine's
shop down the fre-escape He was Herman Eze-
man. Levines watchman. Ezeman himself was
followed by two men who emerged from windows
on the second floor who went down the ladder
after Ezeman. and a fourth man who climbed
out Of n fourth-siory window, and when he
reached the street sped away az If for dear life.
Just a. the others had done. The names OF these
men could not be learned.
Engine No II was the first 10 reach the fire.
Hook and ladder trucks Nos. Is and ii quickly
followed. AMI the ladders were run up at once
Fireman Timothy Collins. thirty-three years
old. was the first TO start up the ladders. lie
had not climbed NOR than ten feet from the
ground when "A wild yell was heard above the
noise of shouting firemen and the roar Of the
flames Then the horrlhed crowd that packed
the street even at that early hour saw n boy,
clad only In his undershirt. jump out from the
afth floor. where Joseph Schackman ran tailor
shop The boy landed fairly on Collins's hard
rubber helmet and boy and fireman went to the
ground together
THE JUMP WAS FATAL.
The boy was killed almost instantly. His legs
and arms were broken and his head was crushed
Poor Collins was knocked insensible, and at
Gouyerneur Hospital It was said he was seriously
hurt internally.
Chief OIearn had turned in third alarm as
soon as he reached the fire. but even with twelve
engines the nremen had all they could do. The
burning building each side was nanked with
five-story tenement houses filled with families
and they rushed into the street clad ony III ,cii
night clothes. Some Of them insisted on taxing
out their furniture. and this helped to block the
Railways and add to the general confusion
People in the neighborhood had also Hooked INTO
the street until II was packed the names IN
sp,tc OF the efforts Of the tremen. ate their way
nm through the roof before they could be checked
When Chief OHeam finally entered the bulid-
ing IL O'Clock IN the HlorHihb' Ch 'i'V
nth floor he found the bodies OF man Oh iort9
wears and a boy siXteer years old lhey were
wing side by side on a tailors half-burned bench
and had evidently been smothered as tney sieP.
Tho bodies OF both had been scorched by the
oames The bodies We're taken 10 the Union
Market police station and laid on the stone moor
~ the cellroom, In plain view Of the prisoners.
Hundreds of Hebrews. many inspired py curl
os,tv wont to the station to look at the bodies.
vhiic hoys. women and girls who were refused
admission. gazed through the windows on the
Uouston-st side. The police admitted an Wno
oave the faintest hope that they could ldehtliy
Tho bodies OF the victims. but II was not untii
after $40 O'Clock that Norris Weinberg OF NO.
O. Co,nmba-st. who worked for Schackman on
tho 6fth floor OF the burned building, i1enIlleu
,ha hodies He said the man was a Waterman,
Lnoyn as Herman The other name Weihpets
did NOT know The two boys were Herman '"o
anns and all three slept the fifth iloor
HE MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED.
Tho hov who Jumped On Fireman Collins's head'
-, ,o esd to the rear of the building. might
have saved his life. but fear bereft hirn OF all
roosop and he Jumped to his own and possibly
c,1,.s death also mick" Muller. who
od IN the first alarm said he saw black
bearded man dash out OF the halfway OF NO 20 20
DC, os he returned from the hre-poX he
shouted to him to stop, but the H'aii ian "'
the street and disappeared .e-oo rA ,oss
The entire loss II estimated at Vow. ne loss
-, tho Goerck-st nre the cause Oh ""'oh was
also a mystery is N7.oOo c,,., parror y,
Jriro In the restaurant or Samue par vi
,ha 0rat 6oor OF the fouI>story prick puiiu,iis
No 20 Rroadway caused $4,000 damage at h'f'
o'clock on Tuesday night