Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-14
HOMELESS PEOPLE
Fifty Tenants Driven Out By a
 Raging Fire.
THREE PERSONS ARE DEAD.

Two Jumped from Fourth Floor and
 We're Killed-One Woman Burned to
 Death in Her Room-Heroic Work
 of the Bremen in Rescuing Women
 and Children.
 New York, March 14.-Three persons were killed and three injured early to-day in q fire that drove fifty ten ants ill panic from the tive-story tene- ment house, 27O Atlantic avenue. Brooklyn, and partly destroyed the building
 A woman and q 12-year-old boy. craZed by. fear, jumped from fourth and third story windows respectively and were killed. The mother of the boy was burned to death in her apart mentS.
 Farrell Murray was badly buAed while carrying Mrs Henry Dehrer through smoke and flames from the fourth floor to the roof. Both were taken to the hospital. The dead:
 Mary Madden. 67 years old, q widow: jumped from fourth floor.
 George Rantio, 12 years old; jumped from third floor.
 Mrs Rantio. 45 years old,, burned to death in her rooms.
 The injured:
 Mrs Mary Dehrer, severely burned about the feet legs and neck.
 Farrell Murray. q motorman; burned about hands. arms and feet
 Fireman McCue. of the Brooklyn water tower; cut about the hands and arms by falling glass.
 The honse is one of q row of tene-
 -tn,
 basement is the bakeshop of Frank Skieven. who has q store on the ground floor above the shop.
 Herman Hartwig. foreman of the hakeShop. came up stairs about 1:1O o'clock this morning and found the rear of the store in flames. He ran
 to the street yelling s'Fire"' and then ran into the hallway to alarm the ten- ants.
 The tenants were soon in a -matf panic and made a dash for the stair ways, only to be driven back by the smoke. which grew thicker every mo- ment.
 Then there was scramble for the fire escapes in front and rear Women stood on them waving their arms and lmp!orln@ aid from the firemen. who were placing ladders az fast as they could The flames began to shoot into the apartments of many of the tenants 1 on the third and fourth floors. driving them wild with terror One of these tenants was Mrs Mary Madden. She and her son George lived in apartments in the rear and they were aroused to find themselves half suffocated by smoke and the flames already creeping into their rooms.
 In their confusion they lost each other in the hallway. Mrs Madden, terror stricken. ran to one of the win doWs. There was no fire escape at l this window.
 l In her fright the woman did not try l to reach another window close by which had a fire escape. but sprang out. She fell on her head in the rear yard. In the meantime her son had reached | the fire escape and clambered to the ground.
 A similar scene was enacted on the third floor. In q rear apartment on that floor lived Mrs Rantio and her 12- year-old hoy George. Smoke had filled their apartment. too before they were 1 aroused. and the fire running up the dumb waiter shaft had caught the rooms before the firemen could reach them.
 Groping blindly for way of es- cape. the boy managed to reach rear window. It. too. was without a fire | escape. and in his terror he jumped to the ground.
 Meantime the firemen were taking women and children off the fire es- capes and down ladders. While they were engaged in this work Farrell l Murray. who is a trolley motor man. | carried Mrs Dehrer. with /whom he boarded. to the street. Both were ter riblv burned.
 | It was nearly two hours before the 1 iremCn had the flames under control. | They made q search of the building | and found the dead body of Mrs Ran 1 tic. in her apartment. The damage to the building was l about S5,00O.
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