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 In
One of Several Fires.

Between midnight and 4 o'clock this
morning the iiremen had to cope with
four fires. One of the fires created 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 1856 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 Did.
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 a 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 Bundyy,, his daughter Louisa,
live also on the second floor. The two
men were aroused by the cries, n
Jumped out OF a rear window. leaving
When the fremen arrived Louisa was
standing at a hall window In the front
OF mo the house. screaming for help, Fire;
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
burning fercely.
In a nearby room he found her un-
his back. he carried her through the
smoke and flames and got her safely to
me naIgb street; She was carried into a
%telephoned for. She soon recovered, and
would not go to the hospital.
In the mean time the families of Tom
In on the top floor. There were five of
ladders.
The fremen were not long in ex-
tnguishing the flames. The damage was
1000.
At midnight there was a fire in the
cellar of the hve-story tenement. 81
Stanton street. A lot of waste paper
was ignited from a furnace. The dam
age was not more thar $25.
Otto Rauchfuss is the proprietor Of n
drug store on the ground floor of the
: t ayeene iron-front building at los
At 2 o'clock this morning R%auchfuss
and two friends, were playing cards In
, the rear of the store. The proprietor
had just won n game when there was a
slight explosion. and In an instant the
prescription countef was In flames.
The three men got into the street by
: a side door. and Policeman Mayer sem
: out an alarm. The flames. which hat
. been saused by exploding chemicals
were extinguished after $3.50 damage
was done.
The three-story frame dwelling. 13i
West Washington Place. was afire 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
She awakened her own family, and tina
e OF Augustus Benatti, on the top floor
All left the house without any excite
t ment. The firemen found the flames II
known, and extinguished them quickly
The damage was $50.
> An exploding lamp caused a fire which
! 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 n daughter
The sons ran out of the house an'
sent out an alarm. The mother enc
daughter did not know the house wa
afire until they were awakened by tn,
. firemen. The flames were confined t
one room.
Fortunately. the door between tina
a room and the sleeping room or tn
women was tightly closed. Had IT beef
" open the smoke might have suffocate'
q them.