The sun., 1899-05-26
THREE KILLED BY FIRE.
FLAMES RACED, BUT NO POLICE NEAR
TO GIVE ALARM


Crippled Boy and n Newspaper Wagon
Driver Distinguish Themselves as Life
Savers-Tho Property Loss Was Small.
With the summer at hand and furnaces
gone out there were more Ares In the hours be-
tween midnight and sunrise yesterday than a
winter night often has to show. They were
all quick fres. but the police we're not quick.
They did not discover any OF them. In one OF
the fires two persons perished and In another
an old woman was very badly hurt. A Grip
pied boy and the driver OF a newspaper wagon
distinguished themselves as life savers.
The house at 1l2 west Forty ninth street
was on fire from cellar to garret when man
passing in the street at $3.50 o'clock A. NJ. gave
the alarm. Hall a dozen persons slept with
in. but not one of them was awake. Presently
they were reused by the shouting In the street.
however. and came to the windows Escape
was cut off BIZ the stairs. which we're on fre
their whole length. A Mrs. Hilton rents the
house. She slept with a friend. Miss Helen
Rice. on the parlor floor. Up on the third floor
were three dodgers. Arthur Thomson and
Louis and George Casselbohm. With them
was stranger. Max Schwartz. who had been
out with the Casselbohms and got locked out.
The four men and Grace. the colored cook.
oried for help from the windows.
Among those who heard was the driver.of
1873 Columbia street. He whipped up the
horse and made for the burning house. He
tried in vain 10 get into the one adjoining II on
the east. woman at the window refused
him admission. Seeing the men climb over
the window sill. he yelled to them to stay and
he ran up through No. ia to the attic. A man
who ran up with him held his legs while Ceres.
who.is big and strong. stretched himself as far
out OF the window as he could. He was able
TO barely touch the Casselbohms. He shouted
passed him up some clothes
, He threw the things away and called to
clothes. and 70 come:on quick. Ons after an
other the brothers caught him by, the wrists
aand he lifted them in through the window.
the street alive. II he came the same way as
the others he was not grateful; He said that
possible. But then his boss. who keeps a fsh
store in the Central Market. was present to
Tesp II e Se
didn't wish 1t to he known that he slept in
Thomson had tried to climb over the win
crowd turned him back. He was seen no,
black under the window; Grace. the cook.
Ceres was unable to reach; He tried; but IL
coming doe the S
man over the sill just a. Mrs. Hilton and
her, friend were escaping, through the back
tho yard She was killed By the fall She was
81 years OLD and lived somewhere ip West
old, He was empoyed:with Schwartz and ont one
OF the Casselhohms In the Central Market;
The house was burned completely out. Tho
stairs were entirely gone whom the hremen
game. and to get around they had to set up
ladders inside the house as we'll as in the
IN kitchen closet. 1t must have burned n
long time before It was seen in the street.
The damage done to property was $4,000.
D0dJl6r
street abiaze EHsT shouts, aroused Henry
most, important bread winner in the house.
the tipe eseape an and II finding no '' ladder BY BY
which to reach the ground. set up clamor that
SH TO @
Of fresh air. Levy ran around the corner. saw
the woman with the pushcart calling for help.
the Sitties down, " N '''' W ~"
:ittle.crinpie had hobbied upstairs and reused
Meyer obarst and his family. When he heard
then s stirring he crept up t9 the next aoqr ,p:
RohtsFss out TRs Fethberss are 1 old f0i peo &c.
Gle. The man 10 79 and the wife SO years old.
The men slept eoundy When they finally
awoke. Mrs. nothberg: who had kept calling
TSeg did not Know Il hea iii
they were compellsd to take to the roof for
their own safety.
Down in the street it had. at last occurred
to some one to send for the f1remen. but the
thought exhausted the presence Of mind OF
the one who did. He merely opened the alarn
box on tho corner. fogetting to pull the hook
that rings the alarm. That was left to the
policeman who eventually happened around.
The house.was then burning fiercely. and two
alarms were sent out. 1t was not until the
fremen had gone to work that a policemen
game upon aged Mrs; Rothberg roapinR about
badly badly, burned in the descent. ~ The skin was
her to Gouverneur HOSPITAL. where she died
later in the day. Henry Nittke, the crippled
boy musician. ESCAPED unhurt. but his musi-
cal instruments were lost. They were burned
In the fire.
When q fire started Yesterday morning. IN
SprinZen Brothers Job printing office. at 151
Norfolk street. Rebecca Forman and her two
little sisters were in their 6at on the second
floor Of the house. with Mrs. Lena Neversohn
and her baby. They tarried too long. and
their escape was cut of by the smoke, Miss
Rebecca showed the stuff she was made Of then:
There were some boards within reach. and OF
Them she built bridge over tho airshaft o the
adjoining house. by means OF which they all
eScaped. Mrs Berkowitz. another tenant had
2 At on the roof when she discovered tina she
had left her paby.below. Whom she got over
1t she went down after the baby and recov-