The evening world., 1894-10-02
1 BABE SUFFOCATED.
FATAL Result of a Madison Street
Tenement-House Fire.
women and Children Dragged te
the Roof by Ropes.
r,plosion of an Oil Stove Caused a
Panic.

rire caused a panic and one death in
.so new double tenement-house 2l6 Madi-
an street, between Rutgers and Jener-
-or streets, at 1850 o'clock today,
700 women and as many children
ere rescued from the burning building
hv fremen and citizens.
Twenty-four families, including 100 men,
romen and children, occupied the fats,
Int nearly all the men were attending
nolieious services attendant upon the
Hebrew HOLIDAYS.
The fire originated in the basement
aat on the west side of the building,
which was occupied by Philip Kreeger,
shoemaker, and his family, composed
NJ a wife, two daughters and an infant
son. Mr.. and Mrs. Kreeger were at
:, tending religious services at a synagogue
in the neighborhood when the fire oc-
cured Their seventeen-year-od daugh-
ter, Rosa, had lighted a fire in a small
oil stove for the purpose of making cof-
fee. aud finding that there was not sufii-
cient oil in the stove she took an oil
can and began pouring Kerosene into the
| reservoir of the stove while the wcks
4 we're burning.
The oil blazed up from the wicks, and
the fame spread to the reservoir just
as Rosa drew away the can, and the in
mmable liquid was scattered over the
room in the front basement. setting fire
i to the place.
and fell in faint.
The flames spread with great rapidity
in Kree,ser's fiat, and dense volume
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The women and children in the vari-
ous fats were bewildered by the suffo-
eating smoke and the cries of fire.
Fully quarter of an hour ELAPSED
before an alarm was sent in. Although
there was a tlre-alsrm signal box on the
next corner, jefferson and Madison
streets, no one used It. but one fright
ened man ran all the way to the engine
! house in Canal street, near Allen. half a
dozen blocks distant, and notified the
iremen. Five minutes later a second
alarm was turned in.
4 In the. mean time, 5000 persons had
i gathered about the burning building,
and men, women and children who had
escaped from it were rushing about in
scream ming and frantically inquring for
loved ones who were missing.
There was wild rush of tenants on
the upper floors down the stairways
and out upon the tire-eScapes.
Fireman Wilkinson, of truck 6, was
the first man to get upstairs. He res
wed child on the third floor, just as
the little one fell, nearly suffocated by
he smoke. Wilkinson carried his charge
to a neishboring drug store, where 1t
was revived and restored to its par
ents.
Another gallant rescue was made by
Samuel Roserfeld, a clerk. Mrs. Done
was frantiCally screaming from a win
dow-sill on the fourth floor, rear with a
child in her arms Rosenfeld lowered a
rope from the roof of 213 and Mrs. Done
tied II about her child's waist and the
rescuer hauled It up to the roof, Their
the rope was lowered again and Mrs
Done waS pulled up.
Isaac Silverman and James Tiernar
hauled Mrs. Samuel GinsberG and hel
newly born infant from the fourth f1ool
window to the roof of 2l3 Madison street
Fireman w. h. kirschner nearly los
the sight of his left eye by molten leaC
dropping into 1t while he was on the sec
ond hoor. He belongs to Engine g.
Three women were taken from the roo
Of 2l5 nearly suffocated by the smoke.
After the fire was under control Fire
man Ahearn, of Hook and Ladder Com
rany IS. found the dead body of Libbi'
kreegar, TWO years old, lying In a bab!
carriage n the front basement. Sh'
had died from suffocation.
The loss on the building and contents
Is estimated at $4,000. Joseph Butten
weser, of 237 East Sixtieth street. /!
Il the owner of the building.