New-York tribune., 1900-03-05
SIX LODGERS DIE BY FIRE.
TWO OTHERS INJURED IN AN EARLY
MORNING FIRE IN NEW BOWERY.

MORNING FIRE IN NEW BOWERY.
Six persons were burned to death and two
were injured early yesterday morning in a fire
which started from unexplained cause IN
the seven story lodging house known the Gar
field at Nos A, 46 and 4S New Bowery. The
dead are:
BUTTE, Charles. forty years old
CARNEY Stephen seventy-hve years old Gouver
Hospital night.
CLARK, John. fifty years old
DOYLE. Edward. afty-ive years old.
Unidentified (colored), hfty-hve years old.
Unidentified man. apparently fifty years old
The injured
the head and face: removed TO the Hudson Street
WALKER. Edward, forty-seven years old, burned
me hanGs az race VINO was attended Dy @ an ai'ou
The blaze was discovered by Patrolmen Nc
Keon and Ryan of the Oak-st. station who
smelled smoke in the air while they were stand
ing at James-st. and New Bowery few minutes
after o'clock in the morning. They separated
to search whence the smell came. and Mckeon
smoke and flames bursting from the win
dows of the Garfield lodging house on the fifth
floor. McKeon raped on the sidewalk with his
night stick and summoned several other police
men, among whom was Patroman Vermann
who rung in alarm
lano and has 132 small bedrooms. OF these
ninety were occupied on Saturday night. The
danger 10 the occupants of the place served 10
quicken the steps OF Patrolmen McKeon and
Ryan, who lost no time in running into the
building TO arouse the inmates and lend what
assistance they could. They informed Paul Cas-
tella. the night clerk and watchman. that the
house fire, and the latter hastily rung
the fire alarm gongs in every room in the place.
Then the policemen dashed up the stairs The
halls were already filled with smoke. and prog
ress through them was difficult and dangerous
On the third floor they found Thomas Harper,
a one legged pedler, whom Ryan and fireman
from Engine Company No. rescued. The man
was perfectly helpless and almost suffocated.
They succeeded in getting him out into the air.
and he revived Edward Walker, who also
occupied a room on the third floor. was helped
out by the patrolmen after he had been slightly
burned Walker was awakened by the smoke
and flames in his room just in time to save his
Efe.
Patrolman Ryan also found Stephen Carney.
seventyfve years old. lying on the floor OF his
room. The flames had already burned the old
mans hands, face and body, but Ryan picked
him up in his arms and carried him bodily 70
the street, where he was placed on the steps OF
st. James's Parish parochial school, and an am
buance sent for. Carney was said at the
lodging house 70 be a silencNd priest Of the
Roman CathOic ChurCh, aItnOlsn none OF tHe
priests in St Jamess Church, which he occa-
sionally attended. knew anything about the man.
His condition serious that q priest from
St. Jamess Church sent for and extreme
JUNCTION was administered. The old man. II ap-
peared. was the possessor OF some money in a
bank and he gave directions to the priest how
this fund should be disposed OF. He died last
night.
Martin Gallagher, fifty-three years old, had his
head and face burned while making his escape
from the building. He was taken 10 the hudson
Street Hospital.
In the mean time two alarms had been sent in,
for the whole neighborhOod seemed TO be threat
ened. There the widest sort Of excitement
whom left the building clad in the lightest ap-
parel Among the first 10 go was Dominica
Milano the proprietor, and his family, consist
ing of his wife, two children and his father and
mother. They occupied rooms on the second
floor and escaped easily.
The flremen made quick work of the flames,
which were confined 10 that part of the building
numbered IA New Bowery, with a total damage
of about $4,000.
After the fire was out the men began a search
bodies Charles Butte suffocated in his
bed. John Clark was found the floor Of his
room as Edward Doyle The first uniden-
titled near a window, as II over
had already reached a window and had sue
cumbed with his body partly on the fire escape
and partly on the window sill All the bodies
were taken TO the Oak-st station and then to
the Morgue.
II developed during the day that Henry Jack
son, the negro believed to have been burned to
death was alive The body that had been en-
tered upon the Morgue records as his then be-
came Unknown body No. A. there being that
many bodies of persons unknown in the insti-
tuition.
An investigation is being made as to the cause
of the fire