New-York tribune., 1900-07-04
FIRE COSTS TWELVE LIVES
TENEMENT HOUSES OCCUPIED Nv
EIGHTEEN FAMILIES BURNED
POLICE AND FIREMEN RESCUE MAN-z
OTHERS EsCAPE-vICTIMs MOST
LY CHILDREN.

Twelve lives. mostly those OF children were -.
fire in the tenement house. Nos. n IA a.
131 Adams-st-. HOboken, early yesterday mo-,
ing. The building only three stories b,,s
but its hlmsy construction made Il a fra ia.
People in the house were asleep about IN i
m, when the fire started from some unkno,-
cause in rear hallway % No 13l- The police a.,
they believe the FIRE was OF lucentiarv orfzf, -
have IN custody Henry Vazts forty-two year. -
who kept saloon on the ground floor o. n
121, In the rear Of which a dance han a,s
shooting gallery. He arrested by Dstscf,v.
Sergeant Julius Nelson at $40 a. n on a eba-v.
Of suspicion OF arson. The list OF the dead 4. a,
follows;
BACHMANN. August a musician. eighteen ysa-s "a
BROWN. Mrs May
NICHOLAUs. Jacob. musician thr-y-tarse year, "a
RENDEI. August musician. nineteen years Cd
wINKI-ER. Charles eleven years old.
WINKIER. Edith. three years old
WINKLER, Eta, and half years old
WINKLER. Fred nine years old
WINKLER. William. seven years Old
'A children Of Mr. ,a and 4 Mrs John winklsr q; NA
Body OF and bodies q male i-ss1tH
FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY.
The first box 10 which Mcintyre the jani,or "a,
70 turn In alarm failed 20 work and By ira
time the fremen arrived the entire wooden struc,-
ure a7ame. Stores on the ground hoor con-
tained in1ammable materials which PED The biaza
a general alarm was turned N Dy AlieT ADDlagara
The first arrivals turned their attention % rescr
ing lives. Policemen and aremen rushed into TIA
smoke filed Railways and carried out several ne,
women and children. who were IN their night
clothes A number were taken down ladders by
the fremen. Mcintyre burst open the door OF No
81 with beer barrel The hallway vas roaring
furnace, and he went into IT only few feet Ia
stumbled over the body OF a dead man and pulled
II out onto the sidewalk II was that % August
Rerdel- He was one OF an itinerant band OF mu-
sicians who lived over Vagts's saloon. The other
bodies were recovered after the fire had been sz-
tinguished. The last one was found at D n
All were taken TO Hofrman's MOrgue No. I13 Jack
son-st., Hoboken
FATHERS SAVE THEIR FAMILIES
Eighteen families lived in the houses. and thers
were many narrow and daring escapes Edward
Phean and his wife got out from the top floor %
No 131 with their five children They Ieaped dis
tance Of fifteen feet TO the shed of the dance hal
each carrying child. The father then rs-eutsred
the house from the and safely lowered ths
other three children 70 his VIE
W-fTia- iiSrolsrad e17CLa a1E FaI1eS - 1-, - - lsl 1
ing r" the front half EsSa9e was Su+ "a Ev
sheet of flame. and the Winkiers groped their vay
to the rear windows. Mrs WinkIer was Overc0us
was taken out onto the rear sheds with her infant
Another child was rescued IN the same manner.
other chiIdren's bedrooms He saved himself 5y
ledplnS OUT on tne SneoS IN the rear MS Wlnker
was affected By the loss OF her children thar Il
was feared she Y voId 90 insane. She taken
to ST. MaTy's ? pital-
The Hoboke' oclice reported last night that
George Eergnla his wife and two children had
not been accounted for.
The total loss by fire the buildings Is esti-
mated at S56lG $500. The three houses at Nos.
III, l29 and III are wrecks, but Nc. Us
part Of the same row, was not burned, although i
damaged by water.
Charles A Donovan, Chief II Police told
Tribune reporter that the arrest Of Vagts
considered advisable upon the discovery OF can
of kerosene and EeuZine in No 81 Adams-st. Hs
also said that Information 7d been received by the
police 70 the effect that Nagts was once burned
out somewhere Long Island NagJs has lived
in Hoboken about year.