The evening world., 1894-05-31
Children Dropped Into 1t from
Upper Windows Through
"a Sheet Of Flame.
THEN THEIR PARENTS JUMPED.
Front Of a DistiIlery 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
129 Suffolk street at 4.30 o'clock this
morning. Fou 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 for his life, as
the flames spread with such rapidity
that all means of escape from the house
were cut off.
Policemen G%rancher. Schriever and
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 It looked
as though the entire building had been
blown up. The street was filled with
flying 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 a blown out the entire front of
solomon kleinrock's distillery on the
ground floor. The framework of the
windows had been blown into the houses
across the street.
In the rear of the dlstillery Klein
rock lives with his wife and five chill
dren. They all succeeded in getting out
OF q rear door. The other half of the
ground floor is a milk store kept by d.
ROCK and Becky Roth. The milk deal
ers got out of the house. but forgot that
solomon Rothsky was sleeping In the
rear room.
He awoke to find the hall a burning
glass Of the rear window. hoping to
escape that way. but was confronted
Dy the heavy windows that make the
were deeply cut by the glass. Finding
there was no other way, he rushed
through the hall and reached the street.
burned and bleeding.
While these people were making their
psriions escape IN the front OF the house.
Louis waltman, Of 142 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 II Guilt.
Each holding an end of It. forming a
NET wi1d they .S directed ed the people IN the
There was a sheet of flame between the
men who We're holding, the guilt. and the
people people h Ssnr m ,o IN above, It seemed
dropped through it with the bare chance
OF them landing in the quilt. But 1t
was the only chance to save them.
his ~three-year-old child. 1t landed safe
ly. in the quilt. This encouraged the
others, and all wanted to drop their
remaining children. and FIVE 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 a rear fence to
Rose Michaels, a n%eighbor, who carried
e to a place of safety.
Then the Elder People Jumped.
Hyman E%hrenwost, who with his wife
the first man to jump into the quilt. and
he was followed by his seventeen-year-old
son and his wife, Annie, The woman
= Is quite stout, and the quilt broke under
her weight. Her back was sprained.
90 Little Lixxie's Body Found.
Chief Ahearn, going through the build
ing. found four-year-old Lizzie Yaeger
on the third floor. She was unconscious,
int so badly burned that she died shortly
after being taken to the Gouverneur Hos
The child had been in the house only
since yesterday morning. Her mother,
her uncle, Peter Rin.z, because IT was
her, birthday. and her uncle gave her Il
little dinner. The child was to have
gone home last night, but was too tired
so she was put to bed.
Meyer Deitchek, forty-one years old
who lived on the third floor, tried to ger
out of the lower hall. His face, arm.
and body were badly, burned,
Simon Lehman, who lived on the tot
floor, was in a dangerous position on tn,
rear fire-escape. He jumped and escape,
5 with a sprained ankle.
Jacob Cohen and wife and Jacob no
sull. who lived on the top floor, wero
carried down ladders by the firemen.
Before the flames could be controlled
they had burned through the entir
house.
The total damage is estimated at 81. O0C