St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-31
seven SUFF0CATED,
The Flames Find Many Vic
tins in a New York Tene-
ment house.
EEMHlED IN BY The FIRE.
a Score OF People noScued by
Means of Fire Lad
dspS.
EEMMED IN BY The FIRE.
ONE JUMPED TO HER DEATH,
While Three Never Became
Conscious OF the Fate
Awaiting Them.

NtlS SUOiUtItG ~ utdtii ny SulOke Ill
tenement house fire at 2i6 West Thirty.
second street this morning. Another
woman jumped from lhirG-stGry win
dow. and Will die The ire came sud-
denly, and cut off all escape by The
StairwayS. In the excitement. every
body looked only To his OF her own
safety. ana rushed down the fire es-
capeS. The following persisted in the
building:
GEORGE FRIEDMAN, four years.
LEVI FRIEDMAN. three years.
ANNIE APPLEBLAT. twenty-five years.
LENA MITCHELL. twcnty-tour years
MRS. MARGARET KILLlAN. seventy
years.
JACOB KiLLIAN. her son, ferry years.
GEORGE LEVY, twenty years Mrs. Kill
iah's grandson
Lena Friedman. mother of The dead
children. jumped from the thirti-story
window. She was badly crushed and
mangled, ard will die
Tie house is three-st0rv brick tene.
ment. the ground floor being occupied
by grocery. and the upper stories
being arranged with front amt rear
apartments. There we're seven families
in The house. The only means OF exit
fer the people was by stairway, mar
row aud dark, when runs directly up
through the center of the building. On
either side of the tenement are houses
which tower story above the house
winch was burned. IN the rear uf lhe
burned house Is 4 ii,tlr yard, twenty
feet square, completely lie mined in by
The tall teneintnFs. The file was dis
covered at ) O'clock by passerS-by.
" hen 4 policeman CAME up The door of
Tie tenement was opened. and on the
inside the fire
GlOvVed Like 4 Torch.
He could see that the stairway was
being rapidly burned away Sill there
was not sign of lie from tie People
lii the hCuSc. 10 enter the house meant
death: The only Rope fer those within
was In arouslng Them by shouts. in
which tie policeman was aitted by those
who had bt ell attracted by The fire.
Suddenly to the noise of the flames, as
they burned away the stairway. there
was added all awful cry. One of the
tenants IN the upper part Of the house
has been aroused and stood at the
window of tie fifth tioor. 1t was Mrs.
Eoerweln. who lived alone OIL, that floor.
In another moment there was not a
window i'll the front of the house that
diu net contain the wild and frightened
face or some Eia!i. woman or child, each
OF them appealing for ala.
Tue faces in the windows were
framed III smoke, which poured forth in
volumes.
In me absence of the firemen, who
mad not yet arrived, the spectators were
poweriesS 10 assist those i'll the building
lhft!ltr Than to warn them of the fire
escapes. On these first one and then
another OF lie tenants, to thu. number of
twenty, Reached ei,e Ground,
descending in the midst of flame and
smoke, before the ladder trucks ar.
rived. ihe Iire, which started in the
cellar, did scarcely any damage to the
ground or second floors. but on the third
story it spread over lhe eutire rear DOT.
ton. There lived the family Of Nathan
friedman. his vile Lena and his three
young children. There were also Two
NOTWITHSTANDING Applebiat, twenly-two.
and Lena Mitchell, twenty -four.
Nathan friedman was first aroused
by lie smoke and noise. The room in
winch he, his wife and baby slept was
already hiled with Sinake. Clutctiug
Inc baby III rlS arms, and forgetting all
else, he Sprang 10 The window and de-
scended 10y the fire escape. Mrs. Fried
man, Toe, rad rushed ia a window but
not where the IRE escape was located.
The escape was but twenty feet from
her. but fright deprived her of her rea-
son. Dehiiu her were the flames,
twenty-five fee; below her WAS The yard,
She leapcd frnm Inc window and fell
INTO The r. ar basement area, and was
badly injured. She was CONSCIOUS,
however, aid cried wildly for her chill.
drcn, who were still ill Tie burning
rooms. The ire Was rXtlnguished soon
after the alter was turned on, and, al
though the work OF rescue was prose-
cuted with zeal from the minute the
hieiHen arrived on the scene, they were
loo late.
The friedman children and the two
boardcrS slept i'll another APARTMENT.
The fire had rot reached them. but the
smoke had filed the ru0m and al least
three of the occupants had Suff0cated
without having awakened to their peril.
George and Lew Friedman and Lena
Mitchell were still i'll bed when found,
and the peaceful expression of their
faces showed that they had receiyd
No knowledge OF the Death
that came 10 them So suddenly.
Annie Arpitbiat was lying dead on
the floor. Her face was black She had
her dress and shoes on. Evidently she
had been aroused and hid stopped to
don her clothing, and had died before
finishing her TASK.
On Tie fourth floor, also in the rear,
were found the remaining victims of
the fire. There Mrs. Kiilian, a widow,
aged seventy years, lived with her son
jacob and George Levy. her grandson.
Mrs. kiilian anu her son were dead
i'll bed. The grandson was GA the floor
half way to the rear window.
Mrs. Friedman was conveyed to the
hospital. it'waS thought she could live
but short time. The damage to The
house will not exceed 1900.
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