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

w IIllulllbIlt dlu . tlo'h thio
morning the fremen a to cope with
four fires. One of the fires treated a
panic: one woman was overcome by
smoke and heroically rescued by a fire.
man, and an entire family narrowly
escaped suffocation.
The fire which did the most damage
occurred in the three-story brick build
ing at 235 Third avenue. On the ground
floor Martin Varnuff 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-five years old.
At $3.50 o'clock Hannah Ross, eighteen
years old, vas awakened by u cracking
sound as ofthe burning of wood. She
went downstairs and found the cigar
store on fire.
Sh ran back and awakened her fam
lily. At the same time the anne were
discovered by a passing policeman, who
sent out an alarm.
The Ross family got out of the build
ing In safety, but old MI. Ross insisted
on going back for his will. He came
near losing his life. for when he re-
wi c WILL u Ill DOh VI Ills Thnu, tne
smoke filled the halls and he could
scarcely stagger to the street.
Peter Bundy., his daughter Louisa,
forty years old, and nephew. Henry,
men were aroused by the cries, and
jumped out of a rear window, leaving
Louisa in her room.
When the nremen arrived Louisa was
standing at a hall window in the front
or the house, screaming for help. Fire,
man Golfer. of Truck No.. g.. dashed
through the wall of flame at the front
The second floor was full OF smoke,
u the woman was no longer at the
window, the easement of which was
conscious on the floor. Taking her on
his back, he carried her through the
the street. She was carried into a
neighboring house and an ambulance
t~elephoned for. She soon recovered, and
In the mean time the families of Tom
Ford and Martin Varnuff were hemmed
in on the top floor. There were five of
these people. They were carried down
The .nremen We're not long in ex-
tinguishinG the flames. The damage was
At midnight there was a fire in the
cellar of the fve-story tenement. 90
Stanton street. A lot of waste paper
was ignited from a furnace The dam
dke WIS lol more nan go.
Otto Rauchfuss is the proprietor Of a
drug store on the ground floor of the
Avenue C.
At 2 o'clock this morning Rauchfuss
and W friends, were playing cards in
the rear of the store. The proprietor
had Just won "A game when there was a
slight explosion, and in an instant the
prescription counter was in flames.
The three men got into the street by
n side door. and Policeman Mayer sen,
out an alarm. The flames. which had
We're ~extinguished after $50 damage
was done.
The three-story frame dwelling. 49,
West Washington Place, was afire at
O'Clock this morning. It is a curious
looking, triangular building, and a land
mark.
Belle McCue. who lives with her fam
lily on the second floor, smelled smoke
She awakened her own family, and tina
> Of Augustus Benatti, on the top floor
t ment. The firemen found the flames II
the attic. caused in some manner un
known, and ~extinguished them quickly
The damage was $50.
. An exploding lamp caused a fire which
I did $50 damage to the two-story bricl
this morning. The lamp exploded in tn
apartments OF Mrs. Ellen Crane. Sh,
lives with her two sons and a daughter
The SOM ran out of the house an
sent out an alarm. The mother ant
daughter did not know the house wa
aflre until they were awakened by tn
, hremen. The flames were confined t
one room.
Fortunately, the door between tina
room and the. sleeping room OF tn
open the smoke might have suffocate
them.