The evening world., 1894-05-21
SAVED BY A FIREMAN.
Louisa Bundy Carried Unconscious
from a Burning Building.
Other Tenants Rescued by Means
OF Ladders.
Narrow Escape of Two Women I'm
One of Several Fires.

Between midnight and 4 o'clock this
morning the firemen had to cope with
four fires. one of the fires created a
panic: one woman was overcome 10y
smoke and heroioally rescued by a fire
man. and an entire family narrowly
escaped suifocation.
The fire which did the most damage
occurred in the three-story brick build
ing at 20 Third avenue. or the ground
floor Martin Narnuff keeps a cigar store
and lives with his family on the top
floor.
David Ross and his wife and several
children live on the second floor. Peter
Ross, David's father. lives with them.
He is seventy-hve years old.
AT $50 o'clock Hannah Ross. eighteen
years old. was awakened by a cracking
sound as ofthe burning OF wood. She
went downstairs and found the cigar
store on fire.
She ran back and awakened her fam
lily. At the same time the flames were
discovered by u passing policeman, who
sent out an alarm.
The Ross family got out of the build
ing in safety, but old Mr.. Ross insisted
on going back for his will. He came
near losing his life, for when he re-
turned with a tin box In his hand, the
smoke. filled the halls and he could
scarcely stagger to the street.
Peter Bundy,, his daughter Louisa,
forty years old, and nephew. Henry,
live also on the second floor. The two
men were aroused by the cries, and
Jumped out of a rear window, leaving
Louisa In her room.
standing at a hall window in the front
OF the house. screaming for help. Fire
man Golfer. Of Truck No. B.. dashed
through the wall OF flame at the front
Of the house and up the narrow stairs.
The second floor was full of smoke.
but the woman was no longer at the
MSn,rrnaGwy' the easement of which was
In a nearby room he found her I'M
conscious on the floor, Taking her on
his back, he carried her through. the
smoke and flames and got her safely To
the street. She was carried into a
neighboring house and an ambulance
~telephoned for. She soon recovered, and
would not go to the hospital.
In the mean time the families of Tom
Ford and Martin Varnuff We're hemmed
In on the top floor. There were five OF
these people They We're carried down
The fremen were not long in ex.
tinguishing the flames. The damage was
At midnight there was a fire in the
cellar OF the flve-story tenement. 81
Stanton street. A lot OF waste paper
was ignited from a furnace. The dam
age was not more than So.
Otto RauChfuss is the proprietor OF q
drug store on the ground floor of the
/, three-story iron-front building at 10
Avenue c.
At 2 o'clock this morning Rauchfus,
n II two friends, We're playing cards IL
the rear OF the store. The proprieto
had just won a game when there was
slight explosion. and In an instant tn,
a prescription counter was in flames.
The three men got. into the street b.
= out an alarm, h flames. which ha
y been saused by exploding chemicals
were eXtinguished after $3.50 damag
was done.
m three-story frame dwelling. l.
West Washington Place, was atire at
o'clock this morning. 1t Is a curious
looking, triangular building. and a land
mark.
Belle McCue, who lives with her fam
s. lily on the second floor, smelled smoke
h She awakened her W family. and tina
IL of Augustus Renatti, on the top tiool
n All left the house without any excite
It ment. The fremen found the flames I
the attic. caused in some manner ur
known, and eXtinguished them quickly
The damage was $50.
An exploding lamp caused a fire whic
~ did $50 damage to the two-story brio
no dwelling 70 Market street at 3 ,o,cloc
p this morning. The lamp exploded in N
i apartments OF Mrs. Ellen Crane. 81
lives with her two sons and a daughte
The sons ran out OF the house an
sent out a alarm, The mother an
daughter did not know the house W.
afire until they We're by II
e fremcn. The flames were confined
one room.
Fortunately. the door between thu
"a room and the sleeping room of II
D. open the smoke might have sutfocat,
re them,