The evening times., 1900-10-17
FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK
Eight Persons Meet Death in a
Burning Tenement.
Victims suaocated OF Cremated In
Their Beds-one woman Peris!aes
Crowds, Wall of Flame Prevent
ing Her Rescue-Mysterious Blaze

SEW YORK, Oct. flight persons
wire either burned to death or suffoeated
in a fire in The tbree-story and attic frame
double tenement at As Hester Street, early
this morning. OF CHARLES Fass' family of
six, only himself and his four-year-old
girl, Pauline, are alive Fass threw the
child out OF a second-story window and
Policeman Peter Hunt caught her. Then
Fass escaped from the burning building
Mrs Anna Horowitz met a horrible fate.
/ Her night robe caught fire and she was
| burned to death on the ire-eseape in sight
/ of an immense crowd. Firemen and police
! men made frantic efforts to save her, but
! the flames drove them back and she had
| to be left 10 her fate.
Policeman fitzgerald rescued two per-
/ sons overcome by smoke. Tie victims OF
| the fire are:
Mrs Sarah Fass, thirty-stx years old.
| sufocated while trying to escape.
Lena Fass, nine years old, burned to
death in he'd.
Morris Fass. two years old, sufocated in
bed
Mrs. Rose Lewis, ninety years of age,
guffocated n bed.
Samuel Fass. thirteen years OF age, suf-
foeated in bed.
Mendel Strauss, eighty years Of age, suf-
foeated in the attic.
Samuel Strauss. twenty-five years cid,
son Of MendeI Strauss, suffocated-
Mrs Anna Horowitz, forty-six years cid
burned to death on the fre-escape.
1t was about I:30 O'Clock when Mrs.
Abraham Greenberg, who lived on the
second floor Of the building awoke- Shs
smeIIed smoke and saw a light in the
hall. Opening the door. she saw. she says,
fire in front OF JanitoT GaIz's docr. II
did hot look as though it were merely
blazing woodwork The fire seemed 10
have been laid
She ran back 10 her room, returning
with = pitcher of water. only to fnl an
other fire sweeping up the frent stairway.
She shrieked. and hastily arousing her
family. consisting Of her husband and
five children. ranging in age from ten
months TO fifteen years. sh@ guided them
toward the rear stairway
Then came one Of the most stirring
episodes of the fire. FIfteeD-year ola ida
Greerberg, finding hat the ofhr children
were so paric-stricRen By the rHsn that
they would never get cut Ct the house.
put little Hannah, who IS i8ur years ola
On her back, seized the tea-ment as -9id
| Leah by the heelr. ard brought the tgo
| down the rear stairway 10 ssfeIy
Fass. ,{le nan whose family " g :lII1ias5
wiped out. awoke also st th-s Il ne and.
| after rousina. or believing that he had
aroused his vile and children, he seized
| his daughter Pauline and went down the
! fre-escape-
| Mrs Horowit1, who lived with the Fass
family aud who was burned to death, had
meanwhile reached the front Of the house
and started down the fre-escape. This so
called e-escape stopped al The second
| story and there was no ladder to be let
| down from that point as he law requires,
Mrs. Horowitz was large woman and
she had TO climb slowly and painfully
down the narrow ladder.
| As she reached the second story, q great
| billow Of fame swept up the front Of the
building and completely enveIoped her.
| The woman's body simply withered. She
1eII helpless across the rungs ef the fire
escape ladder and was slowly burned
there. while the fremen, unable to ap-
proach on account of the terrific heat,
,.ould merely watch their water streams
hiss impotentIy into steam as they melted
| into the wall OF flame
How the others died no one knows. II
was fully half an hour after the first en-
CINE company reached the burning house
before the fremen could enter the lower
hallway. BY that tine the house was
merely one great t:ackened she'll
Sydney Sharlin, who was on the scene
early. says that as the smoke swept out
the front hallway there was a strong odor
of kerosene The fire marshal will inves-
tigate.