New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-21
TIFF LOST IN A STABLE FIRE
ONE MAN BURNED TO DEATH AND SEW
ERAL HAD NARROW ESCAPES.

.rpr WORKING on THE ROOF REPAIRING DAM
ACE DONE ByA PREVIOUS FIRE. AND SOME
WENT BACK FOR THEIR TOOLS WHEN
THEY HEARD THE ALARM
One man was burned to death and sevcra, others
"a narrow escapes yesterday at fire which &C.
urreA IN the Morton boarding stables at Washing
ron and Morton SITS The man who lost his life was
I1a,n Schubert. Trainer fifty-fye years old. He
rved somewhere on the East Side but where Is not
known
The stable was visited BY destructive fire about
,nree weeks ago, and damaged TO the amount Of
about $1,000 Since the fire men have been at work
renairing the building. which was two-story an
,ex fronting on Morton-st. Yesterday afternoon
,our trainers Schubert Guido Mongeetto, Adam
w. and August Flack, were al work IN the build
inc They were on The Westinghouse. side
About o'clock Patrick Feeney. one OF the hos
Tiers working in the stable which belongs 70
George Lynch had business In the hay loft AS he
.scended the stairs he discovered that the room
nos f,,, O; flame and. shouting alarm. he
rushea downstairs TO warn his fellow workmen.
They reached the fly horses in the stable without
any difficulty but in the excitement attendant on
leading them out Of danger the men working up
flars were forgotten.
.s tho alarm sounded throughout the building
the trainers rushed for safety. They approached
,ha stairs hut the flames had preceded them, and
q wall of fire barred their progress. Then they
rushed 10 the nearest window. In front or which d
,ope used fo- hauling joists vas suspended. Frey
and Flack caught hold of the rope. which was at
,ached 10 a projecting beam on the ROOF ana slu
down cutting their hands severely they looked
hack for their companions but the men had dsap-
reared They had foolishy rushed back TO get
their tools.
II was this anxiety to his belongings which
cost one Of the men his life. When Schubert had
got his tools he started for the window again The
aames completely surrounded him. and ne was 1t
orally caught in a trap OF fire He must have made
a desperate struggle 10 save himself, however. for
several men face begrimed with smoke as
t1rted with agony and with hair and eyebrows
singed off. at one of the windows on the WaSnihS-
ton-st. side a few moments after Frey anG RACK
mad made their escape. The men in the street
yelled heiplessly to the form in the WncoW. Dut as
they did so il disappeared in the flames AFTER tne
fire had been forced unoer oentrol Schueoerls Douv
was found under the window.
The iiremen say that II Frey and Flack had toIu
OF the plight Of their companion an enort al Ieds !;
would have been made 10 save MN, Dut they ulu
building until long after it had been TOO late TO save
his life. SchueDert's body was recovered at !
oc.ock and a search of the ruins was then iisti
tuted for other bodies. as one other man. az least
was supposed TO have been burned in the building
The missing man, however. was 1Ounu, anu Ho
other bodies were discovered In the ruins. .
Three hundred and fifty horses are ooardeo N TINS
stable and they are brought there by their owners
about o'clock. Had the fre broken out later WIN
that number of crazed animals 10 hanuie, IL Is
probable that not only large NUMBER OF the horses
their lives As it is the building is almost entirely
wrecked. The last fire, three weeks ago. LETT the
structure with Its annex in a bad state; une mr.
yesterday afternoon undoes the ~orK OF rtpaii
the value OF twentynine wagons IN the place d' Inc
time OF the breaking out OF the hre'