New-York tribune., 1896-12-25
THE NEWS OF BROOKLYN.
DEATH IN THE FLAMES.
A WOMAN LOSES HER LIFE IN BURN
ING TENEMENT.
OTHER INMATES HAVE NARROW EscAPEs-Two
CHILDREN DROPPED THIRTY FEET INTO

OTHER INMATES HAVE NARROW EscAPEs-rwo
CHILDREN DROPPED THIRTY FEET INTO
PoLiCEMAN's ARMS.
Mrs. Jennie Cadden thirty years old. the wife
Of a driver. burned to death last night In
fire which destroyed the three-story frame tene-
ment No. 81 North Third-st. number or the
other tenants narrowly escaped a similar fate.
and were only rescued after much difficulty. The
fire started in the Cadden apartments. which were
on the second floor. and Is supposed to have been
caused by the explosion Of kerosene lamp. Mrs.
Cadden was alone at the time her husband hav-
ing left the house an hour before. after quarrel.
Three families lived in the building. The first
floor tenantcd by A. Klein and his family.
and the third floor by Frederick Nehle. laborer.
with his wife. Narna. and two children-Wie.
three years. and Frederick. sixteen months old.
The Nebles also had three Observation-Disclosures
Dobls. Franz Weschafoki and William Rebiski.
Neble had only few minutes before left his
apartments to go to n barber-shop The lives Of
Mrs. Neble and those Of her two children were
saved by Dobis
1t shortly after o'clock when Mrs. Nebe
was startled by hearing groans coming from the
Cadden apartments, and upon opening the door Of
apartments into the hallway she the house
was afire. Dense volumes of smoke coming
up the stairs. Finding escape cut off by the stair
way, the woman closed the door and aroused her
boarders. who sleeping. Dobis seized the
child Willie and TO the front room, smashing
the panes of glass with his hands. and shouted
for help. Mrs. Neble with the other child, fol-
lowed Dobs, as did the other two boarders. Po-
liceman Trainer. who standing corner
a few doors away. heard the cries and after turn
ing in an alarm ran back to the building and at
tempted to enter. He was driven back by the
smoke, and looking up. that Dobis was hold
ing the child Willie from the window. He shouted
to Trainer TO catch the child which he about
10 drop. Trainer braced himself and Dobis dropped
the boy distance of thirty feet. When he de-
scended the officer caught him in his arms The
only injury the boy sustained cut the
Trainer catching the child who escaped without
an injury. BY this time two men appeared with
a ladder which placed against the building
from the high stoop and Mrs. Neble and the others
were hurried down to the street.
DObis the last to leave the building. and In
descending the ladder slipped from Of the
rungs and fell several feet and painfully
bruised.
When the fire had been extingushed Assistant
Perry entered the building and found the charred
body OF Mrs. Cadden lying on the kitchen floor
within five feet of the window. 1t first thought
that she had escaped from the building From
the position of the body ii is believed she became
excited and lost her head when the fire started.
Had she reached the window she could easily have
escaped, as there is extension off the apart
ments. The damage TO the building was estimated
at $500.
When Cadden reached his home last night he
was arrested by order OF Coroner Mason on Il
charge OF homicide. 1t was learned. however. that
the woman had been intoxicated. and she was
last in the hallway calling TO her husband 10
come back. Cadden was paroled pending the In