New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-10
NEWS OF BROOKLYN.
THREE DEATHS AT A FIRE.
FATAL RESULTS OF BLAZE SUPPOSED
TO HAVE BEEN FIREBUGs' WORK.

TO HAVE BEEN FIREBUGs' WORK
MOTHER THROWS HER BABE TO THE STREET
AND THEN LEAFS FROM THE FIFTH
STORY HERsELF-AN INVALID
FOUND suFFocATED
rhrae ner.ons were killed and two more injured as
the result Of n fire In tho building at the nor'heas'
corner of Auburn Place and Canton-st yesterday
The killed and injured arc
KILLED.
GODDARD CHARLES forty years OLD sumo Saa hv fall.
DUNCAN JOHN. eighteen months old crushed 0y '''-
DUNCAN Mrs. ANNA twen,yeght yea. 9d skull anS
Hospital :ast night.
INJURED.
GODDARD Mrs. CLARA. thirty years old Internal IN
KAT'FFMANN. CLIFFORD. eish; years 3D. 'a'y
burned.
The circumstances OF the fire are so SUSPICIOUS
that Fire Marshal Alonzo Brymer decided ai'ei an
Informal inou,ry that the evidence pointed 10 an
,nccndary origin. He will hold an invesug"uon a.
the station house Of the Twenty-fist PRECINCT ''S
morning at 10 o'clock.
Tho building IN which the fire took place Is a
large brick structure. five stories IN height ino
first and second floors occupied pv joseph
Hobart as a Raires law hotel. HOBART leases the
entire building from the owner. L. Ahrensberg. a
crar-dealer at No 143 Myrtle-ave. and suoets the
three upper floors for dwelling apartments
John Phalen. HofYarts bartender discovered the
FRA in the dumb-waiter shaft at about l2;S9 p. H.
He instantly sent out an alarm. and. returning 10
the shaft, found that the flames in three minutes
hod shot from tho bottom Of the building TO the
roof The Quick progress made by the names ~
me Of the most suspicious circumstances connected
with the fire
While Phalcn was giving the alarm below. Gar
rett O'Connel thirteen-year-old boy. who lives at
MI "
at the house. rushed down the stairway OF '"e
building arousing the inmates with his cry OF nre'
When he had reached the bottom floor nc heard T.
humping noise above him. and turned around IN
time to see a baby bouncing down the STAIRS ne
caught the child and carried 1. across the sreet 10
the house Of Mrs. Hayward where IL was careu
for until It's mother came.
Tho oreatest CONSERVATION prevailed. not only In
the burning house. bu; also In the streets. where
a large crowd quickly gathered. Most OF the
tenants managed to make their escape. ei'her o!
the stairway before the flames had carried i!
away or by the fre-escapes on the norm anu
ives. sides OF the building. or by the LADDERS OIL
the Fire Department, which were erected It"
minutes after the alarm was given
The top floor occupied by the Iouuaius o.'u
bv their sster-in-law. Mrs Duncan and her NUS
band and child. who had been visiting them TOT
some time. Mrs. Duncan took her little oao!' anu
without waiting TO whether any one was pre-
nared 10 catch IT, she dropped IT from the WINDOW
IT struck the saloon cornice and bounded thence
10 the sidewalk. where II fell. crusheo anu iie'es'
Then the mother jumped. and was pickeo up vi
the sidewalk mangled with nearly all her oohcs
broken She died nine hours later. MIS- "oooaiu
was so excited by the action Of her sister that
sha too iumped and bounded from the same
cornice that the child had struck In hei o"'o
the cornice probably saved her life. ior she es
capped with serious but not necessarily ia'a' "''e'
nal injuries ,..
H.. codaara IN Jumping out Of the window lefs
,oh,rd her her husband. who was absolutely heip-
less and in the last stages of consumption " ne"
the smoke came rushing into NJ 6's SrsSred Himself
poor rsi'V 1he window There he found suno-
Gated two hours later by the hremen ere.escane
The Kaufman boy climbed down tne nte,ese;sa q
and pc While he was badly burned still there is a
good chance Of his recovery, 0s s,s,er-,n-law of
Mrs O'Connor. whom she was visiting went ou,
the hallway when she so nea whose se cothmg was
on fire and who shrieking Tor heip 9t,e 10, t
pack S bd into Mars Mars on e Mrs poconnor d
tire-escape which leads from the north sde Oh n
enld ,hs to match harr factory opposite She took
children one three years old with lis arms cIasped "a
her back and began descending he Tsacbed the
anSn d not so Of 6s ron, she
where there Is no fre-escape. Finally as she was
about TO jump. a ladder was run up; 6ut me iop
rope w aa hE TTaG to Mrs anon window
she had the presence Of mind 10 attach Il to the
woodwork and began to climb down. When she
reached the top of the ladder she was assisted 70
the ground by a workman living In the neighbor-
hood. - ~, A. oaro
Most Of the tenants escaped by the fre-escape
between the burning building and the match rae
tory. At several places the fre-escape runs OPP
posjte TO windows Of the factory and as the build
incs are only four five feet apart II was easy
to climb from the fre-escape through these win
dows 81, -.
The fire apparently originated In the cellar. at
the opening OF the dumb-waiter shaft. The ony
fire In the lower part OF the building was in the
no
MIR Hobart said that the tenants had access 10 the
cellar and that OF them might have thrown
a match into some rubbish.
An hour and half after the fire broke out the
flames had been wholly subdued. The three upper
floors of the building were destroyed. and Tho
sa Don and floors below badly damaged by smoke
and water. The damage TO the building Is esti-
mated at 5000. and II Is amply covered by lnsur
ance The building itself was declared by the In,
surance men who visited the place TO be a deatf
tran as II is Of the cheapest construction ano
looks more like factory building than dwell
The homeless families were cared for by neigh
bors and relatives.
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