New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-03
SIX MEN HURT IN A FIRE.
LIVELY BLAZE AT LIBERTY HALL
EAST HoUsToN-sT.
A POLICEMAN AND A FIREMAN AMONG THoSh
,~rprn- EXPLOSION OF GAS METER
BELIEVED TO HAVE CAUSED

,xuprn-Exp1os1oN OF GAS METER
BELIEVED TO HAVE CAUSED
THE FLAMES.
,.. Gro occurred Yesterday morning at
.sa-tv Hall an East Side dance hall. al NO.
o. 90 osa East Houston-st. The names o'o
ebou, $40 900 damage. Six persons lncluo''e
policeman and fireman. were nJu'eu. O". IL
summed from the top story WINDOW u 'e - lii
;ng and another fell from the second s'oiS WI"
c1Yrnolug uoTu 1ne "'e e''oP
tho injured:
.-.y, prsasr,cs T.. policeman Of the East one-hun-
dred- and twenty sixth-st. station burned On 'a'e
hands and neck: taken to Gouverneur ho'p'"'
WHITE George of No "A stan'on-s'.. ou'ne' %" '"
md hands: taken to Gouverneur Hospital
-, r-...,,ok q, No 10 seventh-av ave. burned
Dni, Co.'s and body: taken Gouverneur HOS
pltaL . s
rRrRT ADAM thirty-one years old rio' irae."e CO..
summing from the top story window 'a"e" " WV
erneur Hospital -.
,1ssAUER sigmund. thirty years OLD. r'sn' es '"N
,-.c,,red taken Gouverneur hosp''""
DAVIS engineer OF Engine 'o"'p"''
head by falling glass =,
,,.r.,, Hall Is a fve-story building, o"heo o'
Max Schwartz who is an importer u .r ., Tho
vines On the ground floor is a iais .a. 49,, .a.,
,rast end of the structure. Inc s'ote y"
end Is used by Schwartz for his who,es",e -
Gnu -, business I-pstairs are the bathrooms.
a.,.,np academy and lodge meeting-roo"' me-"
ere also ten sleeping scattered '"io"s" ~
hu,ld,ne In compliance with the Ranes La" "o'e
,rox5a,on At the time the fire started .heie w.
.,,sra, dodgers and employees In the building. Max
49,, .ha manager of the hall. In the care
.,o servant girls scrnbbing the dihihe
~oor, In the basement, when suooehiy e"oe. Va
came shot up through lightsnait from 'he .ea'
- h,ud,ng The flames came from the direc-
oi VIZ" 49,. Lt.cbenA which is in the rear basement
~, 80 servants rushed upstairs from the ohihg-
roono CRYING Fire.. and Sameth ana o'her EMPTY Go
ron ont into the street In less thah d 'n'"u 90
~. oames first appeared the fire was eating 's way
through the nghtshaft into the upper nSo md ofth
re, men were sleeping on the third lourth anu III
80. They were aroused by the commotioh anu
ell but one got out saies' :oa, nm
Adam Ebert, thrty-one wears oid. was asieep W
the too floor Upon being aroused ne rusheo 10 inc
49,. hu, the smoke was 50 thick that he was un-
-, =. maize his way out. In his excitement ne
vent TO the window. and although he couio nave
climbed on the fire-escape Re jumped from ''e
A>th hoor to the street. lie was paoiy inJuieu
h.vino several ribs broken. An ambulance car
RED him TO Gouverheu' 1'oeP
ably die. go, ~, poc..
The alarm for the aremen was sent out by fohce'
van Frederick l.. Stahl. Of the Eat One-hundreo'
and.twenty-sixth-st station. VINO WIS ro'hs py on
car on his way home. stani sa" nc s"UAe a.. ."'
nu,,ed the box at Houston and Essex Us. into the
hu,,airg be rushed along with George White. OF NO
"a stanton-st, and Frederick O'Bren' OF NO. i'
seventh-ave who were In the neiehooi 'ooo 1T 'n'
time All three upstairs 10 the seco'o HUI y
save life II possible. When they reached tho ahc
ing, a back draught sent the names r'sh' mo .ne
faces White and O'Bren rolled down tnN suair
and made their way out into the street "hw the'
emerged from the hail they were badly burnedaoou
tina head. face and hands. and their hair had peer
almost einged of. They were assisted TO ous
store on the and later removed 10 oou
yerneur Hospital: . -. A.. IN,
,,,d,ne that there was policeman inside. JosSn
ussi0e Of No 1873 Stanton-st.. ran IN ana found =
tbe
hands and neck. and was sunerng from snock Z,
was In helpless CONDITION; husS hi! ro h an,b,
i iiin had arrived by this time. and Stah are
iancs svrns were dressed. was removed 10 Gouvel
n.s Hospital He is thirty years DID, and lives
No Si;e yy Lissauer, a school teacher, OF No Z
stanton.st was on the thrd noT, wn ,Is tne ~,
ooccmrSsd He climbed out OF the window an
o.sraeS down the fre-escape ladders When y
1aached the second floor what seemed IKE an expie
sion occurred. and the w'nro~s orce OF the snnose
wniosion also blew Lssauer out INTO me street n
sxp%d about fifteen feet from the SIDEWALK and n
his right leg broken ana t c S%H Hospital
hT s- The Hremen arrived IN response 10 the mr.
alarm they found the flames burning ne[ce'y IN IN
,SrouSh the Ightshaft TO the upper noors an
spread out on every story sscome sv rh,a p %s
Struck and few minutes iat EN- y third ala m
Sr ine dragged lines Of W the FIRE
on the front OF the building and aaaeT sro nara ns'
UI I. the s or9s'sss IS Z? naq
head severely gut DR. HnoS TS. q Are cs,ssd conss
p!1h,i nsmaee to the lodge meeting-ro1mI snd
Z. ). Bsrahsns dancing a Tcs othsr Emsse ~
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