The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-14
lives SAVED BYACAT.
It, Moving Aroused Mrs. Shelter
to Danger from Fire.
round nsr Brooklyn Store Ablazs
and Sent In an Alarm.
r,vs Tenants Badly Burned Before
r,remen Could Rescue Thorn.

r,vs persons were seriously burned
!, tenement house fire which broke
Al, Of $50 o'clock this morning at 70
MN street. South Brooklyn.
u,d IL not been for the pitiful me
ov,o of half-smothered cat, which
ow.pened one Of the tenants. who
sroused the rest, II is likely that sexeral
lives would have been lost.
THE persons burned are:
p,las.t Ryan. twenty-four years old. burned
,,out ID. arms face and legs.
u,,.,ret Ryan, her mother. sixty years old,
,,d,y burned about the arms and hands.
John Cosslin. thirty years old. burned abeut
IN, neck hands, arms ana legs.
Iobn Co.slin, IT,. eight years old. burned about
III. hands and face.
Mrs Kate coAglin, twenty years old
burned about the arms, chest and body.
All the injured persons were removed
to the homes Of neighbors.
The house Is a three-story double ten
.ment, and about forty persons made
their homes in II. The building 10 on the
water front Of Red Hook.
At $50 O'Clock Mrs. Minnie smeltser. a
widow who keeps grocery on the
ground fioor OF the tenement was
awakened from q sound SLEEP by the
meow! OF her pet cat In the hall.
She arose and opened the door to let
the cat in when she noticed smoke In
the hall and heard the cracking OF
burning wood.
Mrs. Smeltser ran into her store to
see where the FIRE was and was nearly
She staggered out, and then ran up
stairs crying loudly to the other ten
ants that the house was on fire. .
Then the woman ran down I,rs snroa aga
caused an alarm to be sent In 10 flre
In the mean time, the fire was spread
Ing n as and Sos o found S t Escape BY the
stairway shut off. xu
the windows into the next house. CO.
eu pie f he third ad floor, tried to escape
by the roof, but found that It was impos-
slble to push back the rusty DOT whieh
held down the cover to the skyltght.
no other chance Of escaping Than by
Humping from the windows.
Some Of them got up on the sills TO
jump. but were forced back by me
front of the house from the floors be-
low. The crowd in the street cried 70
the Imprisoned families to wait for the
hremen. . -. All. <.s.-,
ev .rs d iStti gave them courage. but
They then tried to tS s,v their ,e, !. T ;s,,
s sSwa e st BY sa she ea.s
' When thes reaened the landing below
t.e ,second-story floor gave way ana the
timbers crashed down; me names ,s,
sfgsa " no hs WE'RE fopSed back again
When the 'firemen reached up thei!
ladders they were all more or less burned
and hardly able to -, stand narr,sd down the
ladder a " BY q fireman, as was also heI
daughter. Margaret, and Mrs. Kate
Colglin. They were UNCONSCIOUS aho
their hair was almost for the a@ 1
in he western part Of the city was
then sent out by the firsnen. mall,
Ambulance Surgeons Poole ana Butlei
Of neighbors, where they had been car.
ried by the firemen. Several physiclani
in the nighborhood were also In attend
ance.
After the imprisoned people had beer
rescued. District Engineer James Doyl'
went to the third floor to the apart
ment OF Mrs. Coaglin, to get $500 which
she had in a bureau draw Serna tho eoo,
under the clouds OF smoke to the bureau
He found the money In an old stocking
and was making his way safely back Z
tHe WlnuOW WHcH tut hOoi Uchcoeh
began to sway with his weight.
He reached the ladder Just IN time
As he laid his hands upon the top OF l
the floor gave way and everything wa
Doyle got down the ladder safely ant
presented Mrs. Coagiin. who had re
gained consclousness, with her savings
At 10 o'clock this morning 1t was sal
that all the injured persons were doin
The building was completely Quilted
but the nremen kept the flames fron
spreadlng. II wa. an hour before tn
Ore was under control.
The hre completely destroyed Mr.
smeltEer's stock and hxtures. valued
saooo. The Ryans' loss Z sstims tssa an q
who occupied Apartments on the, secon
moor, lost S700 IN furniture and clothing
The building was owned by Mrs. Smeit
FER.
The origin Of the IRE IL a. mystery
Fire Marshal Lewis. of Brooklyn. VII
make an Investigation.