New-York tribune., 1895-12-05
HARD FOR r1REMEN 10 FIGHT
A TROUBLESOME BLAZE IN A RIvINGToN-
ST. swEATsHOP BUILDING.
x.ppo,v rsrAprs FOR TIE TENANTS OF THE
NEIGIIBORING NOUSES-THE Loss
ABOUT Si5 600

A six-s:ory shop building at Attorney ahd XIV
ington SITS caught fire about o'clock YESTERDAY
morning. and in fifteen minutes was wrecked 10y
hard work the fremen who responded 10 iouf
alarms succeeded in saving the adjoining puho-
ings on each side all OF them being tenement
houses filed with people. dozen people had 10
be carried out OF the houses on either slde OF
the burning building and nearly dozen o'heiS'
men, had TO drop TO neghboring roofs 10 get 10
houses where they could get into the street The
fire began in the rag shop OF Wilson x Altman.
In the cellar OF Nos. 102 and loi Attorney-st.
The cause Of the blaze is not known Wilson
says they had no stove nor gas in the place y
man who the flames rushed to HOOK al"
Ladder No IS near Delancey-st.. and tod Fireman
Hays who had just returned from the Cherry-st'
fire Hays ran 10 the box at stanton and Attorney
sts and sent in alarm Chief Ahearn, VINO soon
arrived saw the great danger TO nearby houses
and sent In third and then fourth alarm
The flames rar through the hlding in re-
markably short space of time. 1t IS an oii-soakeu
place 1t was occupied six years ago by r. r. COL
Her printer and publisher. He LETT tne piace pe-
cause he believed 1t was unsafe for MS Hha OF
work.
Besides the rag shop. there were on 'he srou,'u
eoor William Katenhem, butter and eggs VINO
also occupied the store on Rivington-st. NO lsi'
and ~ Bremer a barber. at 10S Arorney-st. On the
first floor was Abraham Deroschinsky, cioth'ne'
on the second. Abraham Kumpf clothing on tne
third Jacob Toffat. clothing, and Jacobs x GodK!h'
buttonhole makers: on the fourth moor. Lonuo"
siverstein, childrens cloaks. and A Goos'e'i',
clothing The nth floor had A. Wolf clothing ana
J. Bopka clothing; the sixth. Louis Lembeck cloth
ing David Luzlnsky. a bookseller, had shop o."
the second floor Of the Rivngtcn-s side OF the
building None Of these firms had much stock on
hand so that the loss from that source was ho'
great, anu amounts TO less than 5000 On 'he
building the loss may reassl 5000
The hremen had the mos: difficuit Kind OF WORK IN
b,,il1i Of
Streams Of water were played from buildings on
the opposite sides OF both Attorney and RiVngtoh
sts into the windows Of the burning house The
smoke from the place was so dense tnat me ms
clouds drftel, had TO vacaie their rooms nos ,S
IN 40 cor s cy n'a ana arp Whe of the
lanceyst station found the family OF a Harrs ksE Me-
sos BEEN an Gi Invalid for six months and could not
move Reilly got him on his back and ana carhea Mh,,a
narrjed ,ir two Of the small children. Mrs. Klatz
took Of them in her arms snns to the acebs an
eir six children were also led or carried out MATT
was weak condition when ne was 'aHsn sven tbe
iremen wNe much dsconcer,ed by the SMOKE oSrnss
density and pener1ea hnc ne there three women
and ten children. driven out OF NO IV' A'oI"e' $50
The watchmen in the flaming building had had mar ar
row escapes They tried to run dowrsIa'ir dlU' sre
Srgpyen hack By the smoke and had 10 seek the
made hsr Ta way d1oppaS of a' 80 he
warehouse which was only story below Ihev
then easily got to the street :, 49,. ,,oo,s
George Lang. seventyeight years o1 Wno HirrG
In Jacobs Godkins butonhoe place on me me 'nmII anI
Toor was awakened by the noise OF the engines am
ran 10 the window where he Was knocked % d1w hab on
a dssh Of water. He then got down on a poin uas.i
20 the frst floor from which ne was rescued pi
Policeman Haas Of the Deancey-s,i sa1'Sa aa Sa had
trunk fu OF clothing and other goods al ne na'i
IN tho world was lost Haas also lea near a
dozen persons out OF the teremeni-house at NJ
The iremen poured on the IRE for nai' rhn az
hour before they MADE any impression on IT, IT, 'jn
snrav from the hose lines thoroughly wet tne siae
Walk and then it quickly froze Tns ssbns ,nSreSs Wsr
tho difHcuties Of the fiemen until ashes w. w..
enraad en- ayound Another trouble and great daneer
az wei was the small AMI sometimes mes aIss bnIfSn
The loss altogether will lie about G5"'