The evening world., 1894-05-31
QUILT USED As A LIFE NET.
Children Dropped Into It from
Upper Windows Through
a Sheet of Flame.
THEN THEIR PARENTS JUMPED.
Front OF a Distillery on
the Ground Floor
Blown Out.

. Lizzie Yaeger. four years old, was
burned to death in a fire which followed
an explosion in a distillery on the
ground floor of the six-story tenement
l2o Suffolk street at 40 o'clock this
morning. Four other people were taken
to the hospital seriously injured. FIJI
teen children were thrown from win
dows during the panic which ensued,
and nearly everybody living in the house
had a narrow escape Does life, a
the flames spread with such rapidity
that all means of escape from the house
were cut Off.
Policemen Grancher. Schriever ana
Byers were standing half a block from
the house when they heard a low rum
bling. followed Immediately by a terrific
explosion. To the policemen II looked
as though the entire building had been
blown up. The street was filed with
1ying bricks and glass. the whole en-
Veloped In smoke and flames.
Blew Out the Distillery Front. .
While Policeman Grancher turned in
an alarm the others rushed to the burn
ing building. They found that the ex-
nlosion had blown out the entire front of
Solomon Klelnrock's distillery on the
ground floor. The framework of the
windows had been blown into the houses
across the street.
The entire ground loor of the BUILDING
was afire. the flames belching half wav
across the street.
Awakened by the explosion the FRIGHT
ened tenants crowded to their
and screamed wildly for helm. Tbs
policemen were powerless to render aid
soon the fre-escapes in the front ana
rear were crowded, but the people could
not reach the street by them because -
the fierce flames below. -.
IN the rear of the distillery K,e,r.
rock lives with his wife and Ave hi
ureh. They all succeeded In getting an,
Oh a rear door. The other hair ~ r.
ground floor is a milk store kept by Is
ROCK and Becky Roth. The miIk 49,,
l. sot OUT OF the house, but forgot tnat
noaoHnon Rothsky was sleeping In IN
nan the Bla.ing Han.
fp ne awoks to find the hall a burning
s iIass'e Of M tbe re his fist he broke the
escape that way, but was confronteS
py the heavy windows that make tSe
p Were d peTfiar,proo Both his hands
there was no other way, he rnshaS
through the hall and reached the siSeet
burned ana bleeding.
tbe series Of circumstances prevented
,ne iiremen from reaching the burning
building early. Only a few minutes he
fore there had been an alarm sent out
there were o GT n Ena street. SO that
> and Hook and Ladder No. ii 10 re.
spond TO this fire. The houses OF both
era bIe d9impanle are situate a consid-
Ihen. too, after the policeman had
sg snn. out me alarm. Louis Zeiltner, who
a aa~ neaTa the explosion n saw the
names sent out an alarm from an
other box 'This served to perpiex fhe
DIN TWO available companies.
on tbn was Just n corner Of the house
not reached in the lower part. Under
me direction OF the policemen who
yelled out instructions from the street.
the men and women who crowded the
escapes, climbed out of the second-storv
WINDOW, along a narrow coping and into
tne window OF the house next door, No.
While these people were making their
perilous escape In the front of me- house,
me situation in the rear was even
Louis Mailman, of 1+2 Norfolk street.
which Is just back of the burning build.
Ing, and Isaac Frankenstein, OF the
same house. got a big quilt.
Child Dropped Into a Guilt.
Each holding an end of it, forming a
windows above to drop their children,
There was a sheet of flame between h
men WIG were holding, the quilt and the
people hemmed in above. 1t seemed
dropped through it with ms bare chance
Of them landing In the quilt. hui it
was the only chance. TO save them.
Philip Marks was the first 70 throw
his three-year-old child. 1t landed safe
ly, in the quilt. This encouraged the
others, and all wanted to drop their
children at once. Marks dropped his six
remaining. children. and Ave OF Mrs.
Herman Werdenfeld, on the same floor.
followed. Then half a dozen from the
third floor were dropped.
After the children landed in the quilt
they were passed over q rear fence 10
Rose Michaels, a neighbour. who carried
them to a place OF safety.
Then the Elder People jumped.
Hyman Ehrenwost. who with his wife
and child lives on the fourth ioor, was
the first man to jump Into the quilt. and