The sun., 1894-10-31
SMOKE SMOTnERS SEVEN.
r.rAB TENEMENT FIRE IN VEST
4HIR1F-sEVENTH STREET


stream Of FIRE poured up through the stair
way Of the hve-story tenement at 218 West
Thlrty.seventh street yesterday morning. It
spread but very little from the chimney afforded
By the stairs. When after q short but fierce
hght the flames were conquered by the fremen,
their traces were scarcely visible anywhere, ex-
cept in the halls and not wall of the house
had fallen. Yet seven persons lay dead in the
house when the fire was over. and an eighth re-
cpiyed probably mortal injuries. OF those who
perished not one was touched by the fire. All
we're smotherod. Tho dead are:
ArrLSstArT. AxSrE, Qs years old.
FErEpnAS, GRoRsE, years old.
fnEDaAS, LEVI. years old; Georges brother.
KnIi,S. MRs. MARoAREr. 20 years old.
Kuuss. JACOB her son. 40 years old.
Lowry, GEoKaE, his nephew, 20 years old.
MITCHELL LESA cousin Of the Friedmans, 81 years old.
The injured person is Mrs. Lena Friedman. os
years old, mother Of the dead boys. She has in
terna injuries from a fall and is badly burned
around the legs. She was taken to Roosevelt
Hospital and later was transferred to Bellevue.
She may die.
A sleepy cabby who drove around the corner
of seventh avenue into Thirty-second street at
half-past . yesterday morning was reused by a
smell Of smoke half way down the block. Trac-
ing the smoke to its source, he found the hall Of
big tenement lighted by flames which seemed
70 start from below. The cabby whipped his
horse UP, whirled around the corner, and yelled
an alarm TO Policeman William Powers Of the
West Thlrtisth street station. who shouted to u
boy near by to send in q FIRE alarm, and ran to
the place.
Already the FIRE escapes on the front were
white with figures shrieking as they half fell,
half climbed, from landing to landing. The last
balcony. in which the iron ladders terminated.
IN
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ta'hereu a'iu'.er VI 'e'f,heu peope "no "ere
had already turned the hail ss far nm as the
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shouted for the people on II the balcony to % drop @
down 10 him. Aided by Policemen Hahn and
ton Powers helped down all the people who
bad climbed out upon the hre escape Herman
Fondiller. whose grocery Is on the ground floor,
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his wife and baby, was rescued with Mrs. FOn-
Those on the ground floor had already made
sui'u ..s . s,ao"' . ,s mMo WIN ner son ion' pn
sidewalk shrieked for her son. A light figure
was running darinely I'M tie ladders. swinging
out to the windows and smashing them in. 1t
was young Smith doing what he could TO arouse
,ss Before BE- CANE down to
.sns Ssa %e3 The sSa
apss mn. nom Seishsr Ell % was z ialarcd. as ae" is
front door. but was driven back By 0 cloud ia of
% as Gz o
Coles + sure thai he smellsa kerosene slam
crease The re, he ran back 10 aid In ths Work of
st99d two men and an old woman. They were
sSs was ssT to attempt the descent and
NO no. / can't do IT," she moaned piteously.
& aGsn scpos. Ss DO
Ing hands sraspins the sides. The two men
here sas Rs Sy the rs and
hhs5%sd and amid the cheer. q ths crowd that
Nolan og snd the wsrs oS ssf rhey
mother.
being iost In the rear. Prom the other tenee
ments crowd had poured into the little stone
crying out for the people inside 70 save them. emu
selves. A man found q stone. which he sent
mans face appeared at the place. "'H1o"' \
The face disappeared, moment nome f later pSuts% tSo
them. Next : woman. Carrying % another Sn chfid.
was thrust through the window and caught
and last as Q dense mas of smoke forced itseif
Qut, the man himself jumped. SO Giuseppe
Persioo saved his family and himself
Two noors. above a deserats struggle was 60
ing on. Nathan Friedman, walter at Koster
a Bials lived In the rear OF that door with his
wife, their thr9 children, Lena Mitchell, Mrs |
Friedman's cousin, and Annie Appleblstt, a |
boArder, Friedman Awakened by the shouta
bsloW, seized the }our-months-ofd baby and
made his way down the Are escape fshting |
brayely through the smoke His wife 10 whom |
he had shouted Numbered blindiv ont after
him, stupened by the fumes
The dre escaped The fire escapei" the crowd |
shouted At her. Get 70 the ladderi"
Perhaps che was beyond hearing or under
standing Slowly she slipped down from the |
balcony along the ladder fell caught by her |
hAnds slipped, clutched again, half turned and.
swinging loose. plunged 70 the last balcony
1T WAS 4 terrible thiIsr 10 see but 4 more fer
rible was TO follow Hlow her he sresNay |
from the cellar Was = Dit OF fame The feros |
s,nsues q nre seemed 70 leap 70 meet their VIC
dozen men NJ He9e cIimb,nT nD 20 bar sId Shen
she got TO her Knees 1uTched forward and
whir[sd down into ths saathins funara Veil
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