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

a panic, and there was a number of
narrow escapes from death.
When the fire had been e%xtinguished
1t was found that in a number of rooms
where the fireInen had worked consider
able money and jewelry were missing.
The tenement was once painted white,
and though the paint has long since
worn off 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 1t is the residence of
Sabina RONALD, the w~ealthiest man in
Mulberry Bend. RONALD is estimated
to be worth $40, 900. He has a maccaroni
factory at 100 Mott street. He leases
the tenement house and lives in 1t with
his wife and six children.
on the ground floor Francisco Cairo
keeps a grocery store. On the top floor
Genera 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
have erected a shrine to st. Joseph. 1t
is n statue of marble, which was pur-
chased by them a year ago. Around
tIle Htth u lHlS Sldtue was IL lthNS
gold chain of elaborate workmanship
and curious design, and pendant
from it. 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 Mulberry street post from Bayard
the flames through the shutters of the
little room. He blew his whistle for aid
and rushed up into the building.
The p9iieeman stumbled ,h through the
but his cries Of alarm were of no effect.
When he got to the top floor. the flames
had already. burst from the room OF
devotion N END ma were eating their way
Donlin broke in the door of Genera
Romalo's rooms: Then his great trou-
aroused to the fact that the house vas
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.
while with the other she chung to the
bed-post and refused to move. The 20,
! liceman used force to take the child
away from her. With it he ran down
he stairs. and gave It to Policeman
Walsh, who was on the second floor
pie. In the mean time another police
nan nae turned in an alarm.
The rest Of the people in the house
filed 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-
gap but not 3ne Of them would move
came faint. He started to so down the
stairs for help, when he tainted and fell
to the second floor. From there ne was
Walsh. He was unconscious for ten
Truck l was the first to arrive. The
firemen Immediately ran a adder up to
the window of the devotion room, from
which smoke poured. BY this time the
fire had go, t. the stairway on 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 and frightened faces. they
looked from his 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. All of the
people were taken down the ladder; with
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Victoria RONALD, thirteen years old.
and Theresa RONALD, eighteen years old.
They had made their way to another
window, and the fremen could not get
near them.
To the people in the street 1t looked
as though these girls would certainly
two iremen, appeared at the edge Of
the roof, directly over the window
where the girls stood crying for help.
The firemen, lying fiat on the roofs,
| In tNaTTd a lyyinDinU ladder which thaNt
hooked into the dress of Victoria and
raised her towards the roof. For n
minute the girl dangled in the air forty
Not "A sound was heard from the peo-
pie below. Then the child was landed
safely on the roof, and a great shout
went up. Theresa was rescued in the
The hrcmen had stretched lines
through the house and to the roof.
While some of them worked on the
flames others were e~ndeayorlng to quiet
the people In a large tenement in the
rear.
had fled by means OF fre-escapcs and
the roof In their night clothes, although
the fire could not by, any chance have
reached them. In half an hour the
done $500 damage.
When the Romalos returned to their
rooms they made a startling discovery.
Every piece OF jewelry that had been on
the statue when the fire broke out had
disappeared, Genera RONALD had also
left Go cents on his table. That vas
gone too.
Policeman Donlin said that he had not
gone into the burning room and that
nobody had entered IL hut he hremcn.
While a search was being made for the
jewelry Sabine RONALD rushed out OF his
rooms. He also had a loss to report. lie
had left a pocketbook containing $50 on
his table and when he returned after the
fire he found the pocketbook on the
floor empty, He had left his $50 watch
In his best vest. That was gone too.
RONALD sale the fremen had been
through his rooms too, and must ave
seen the pocketbook. None of the fire
men could be found who had seen the
missing things.
Policeman DonIin reported the various
losses at the Elizabeth street station.
Capt. Warts said there would be q thor
Iopgh Investigation.