The evening world., 1894-04-26
FIRE, PANIC, Theft.
Thrilling Rescue Of Two Girls
from a Burning Tenement.
Ladders, Lowered from The Roof,
Hooked in Their Dresses.
Shrine Stripped of .Jewelry, and q
Watch and Money Stolen.

this morning in the three-story Italian
tenement at 90 Mulberry street caused
a panic, and there was u humble of
narrow escapes from death.
When the fire had been extinguished
1t was found that in a number of rooms
where the ilremen had worked consider
able money and jewelry were missing.
The tenement was once painted white,
and though the paint has long since
worn OF the bricks the house still
stands out prominently. far better than
the others in the neighborhood. The
house is well known to all the people
OF the street, as il is the residence of
Sabina RONALD, the wealthiest man IN
Mulberry Bend. RONALD Is estimated
to be worth $50, 900. He has a maccaroni
factory at l60 Mott street. He leases
the tenement house and lives in 1t with
his wife and six children.
On the ground floor Francisco Caro-
keeps a grocery store. On the top floor
Genero RONALD. a brother OF the mac
caroni manufacturer, lives with Bar
bara. his wife. and five children.
In a little hall bedroom on the top
floor, which faces the street, the Italians
nav erected a shrine to st. Joseph. 1t
10 a 5tutuc VI HluI plt, WHICH "db puT-
chased by them a year ago. Around
the neck of this statue was a heavy
gold chain of elaborate workmanship
and curious design. n pendant
from 1t a massive gold locket. On the
pedestal there were -four gold rings. 1t
was in this room of devotion that the
fire broke out from some unknown
cause.
Policeman James Donlin. who has
the Mnlharrv Straat most frDm Ra VA r1
street to Worth street, saw the glare of
the flames through the shutters OF the
little room; He blew his whistle for aid
The policeman stumbled Through the
dark halls and up the narrow stairs,
but his cries Of alarm were of no effect.
had already burst from the room OF
devotion end were eating their way
along the hall.
Donlln broke in the door of Genera
bic began. When the family were
aroused to the fact that the house was
on fire they seemed paralyzed with
fear. and not one of them would leave
the rooms.
Mrs. Barbara RONALD held her seven
months-old child. ,Nicolo. In one arm,
bed-post and refused to move. The ,po;;
liceman used force to take the child
away from her. With 1t he ran down
the stairs and gave i to .d pSliSe man
landing. trying to wake the other peo-
pie. In the mean time another police
man had turned in an alarm,
The rest OF the people in the house
were panic-stricken. The place was
filled with the wild shrieks OF the mac
caroni manufacturer and his family as
they tried to crowd down the stairs all
at once.
Policeman Donlin went again to the
top floor to urge the people there to es,
Smoke ou all eS' the lns 9 TOP 'n OF the bui mHHs,
and the policeman from inhaling it be-
came faint. He started TO go down the
s5a ipe for ssc6 neiP' a Shen F Re fat ,hsSe I Ss w fs,l
carried down to the street by Policeman
Walsh. He was unconscious for ten
Truck l was the first to arrive. The
iremen Immediately ran. a ladder up to
the window Of the devotion room. from
which smoke poured. BY this time the
top floor and cut OFF the escape OF the
members Of the RONALD family there.
They he'd made their way to the front Of
the house, but were at a window at the
other end of the house from which the
ladder had been placed.
With pale n frightened faces. they
looked from this window screaming for
help. Genera RONALD stood on the win
dow sill and yelled to the great crowd or
people below that he would jump. They
motioned to him to remain where he
While the fremen were getting the
ladder over to the proper window other
people had got to the roof. Al Of the
the exception OF two OF the children.
Victoria RONALD, thirteen years old,
and Theresa RONALD, eighteen years old.
window, and the fremen could not get
near them.
To. the people in the street it looked
perish IN the flames, when suddenly
two firemen appeared at the edge OF
the roof. directly ove the window
where the girls stood crying for help,
lowered a swinging ladder. which they
hooked into the dress of Victoria and
raised her towards the roof. For a
minute the girl dangled in the air forty
feet above the ground.
Not a sound was heard from the peo-
pie below. Then the child was landed
went up, Theresa was rescued In the
same way.
The hremen had stretched lines
S Whiie some rme OF h"u them ahH Worked rR me on rG tbe
flames others were ~endeavoring to quiet
the people in a large tenement In the
These people were panlc-stricken and
had fed by means OF Microscopes and
the roof in their night clothes, although
the fre could not by any chance have
flames we're extInguished, after having
done $500 damage.
When the Romalos returned to their
rooms they made a startling discovery.
Every piece OF jewelry that had been IN
the statue when the fire broke out a
disappeared. Genero RONALD had also
left 65 cents on his table. That was
gone too.
Policeman Donlin said that he had not
gone into the burning room and that
nobody hsd entered II hut he firemen.
While a search was being made for tn
jewelry Sabine RONALD rushed out OF his
rooms. He also had a loss to reNorI IL
had left n pocketbook containing $50 on
FIRE he found the p~ocketbook on the
floor empty. He had lief: his $3.50 watca
in his best vest. That was gone too:
through his rooms too. n must have
seen the pocketbook. None OF The fire
men could DO found who had seen the
Policeman Donlln reported the various
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