The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-14
FATAL FIRE IN BROOKLYN.
Three Persons Killed and Three In
jured in a Tenement Blaze.


NEW YORK, arch l4-Thres persons
were killed and three injured early today
in a fire that drove fifty tenants in panic
from the hve-story tenement house, No.
2s0 Atlantic Avenue. BrCollyn, and part
~ destroyed the building
\ woman and tweIve-year-old boy
jumped from the fourth and fifth story
windows, respectively, and were dashed
to death. The mother Of the boy was
burned to death in her apartments.
Farrell Murray was so badly burned
while carrying Mrs. Mary Dehrer
through the smoke and flames from the
fourth floor to the roof that he had TO be
drugged with morphine before he and
Mrs. Dehrer were taken to the hospital
The dead are:
Mary Madden, stxty-seven years old. a
widow; jumped from fourth floor; skull
crushed
George Rantio, twelve years old: jump
ed from the third floor; skull fractured.
Mrs. Rautio. forty-five years Old, burn
ed to death.
The injured are Mrs Mary Dehrer, Sc
vercly burned about the feet, legs, and
neck; Farrell Murray burned about
hands, arms, and feet: Fireman McCue,
of the Brooklyn water tower. cut about
the hands and arms by fa sing glass.
The house IN which tisS fire occurred
is one Of a row of tenements ~ith stores
beneath. In the basement j. me bake
shop of Frank SlIIeven-
Herman Hartwig. foreman Of the bake
shop. came upstairs about $50 O'Clock
this morning and found the rear Of the
store in flames. He ran to the street yell
ing Fire and then ran into the hallway
to alarm the tenants It was so filed
with smoke that Hartwig vas partly
overcome and ran out again
William NewhOn was passing and saw
the fire He ran into the hoRse and sue
cceded IN getting upstairs. followed by
Policeman Shields. Newhof ran from
floor to floor. kicking in the doors and
yelling TO the tenants to escape. Wher
he reached the third floor he was over
come Shields dragged him 10 the street
Meantime, trolley inspector had sent
an alarm and the fire engines were hur-
ried TO the scene There was a scram-
bic for the ffre-escapes- Women stood on
them, waving their arms and impIoring
aid from the firemen who we're placing
ladders as fast as they coald. The roar
Of the fire in the lower part Of the build
ing could be heard throughout tine block
Flames began TO shoot irto the apart
mcnts Of many Of the tenants on the
third and fourth floors driving them wild
with terror
one Of these tenants was Mrs Madden
She and her son. George. lived in apart
ments IN the rear and they were aroused
to ind themselves haIf-suffocated by
smoke and the flames already creeping
into their rooms In their confusion they
lost each other in the hallway. Mrs Mad
den ran to one Of the windows There
was no fre-escape at this window Sh,-
sprang out, turned over orce and fell on
her head in the rear yard. Meantime.
her son had reached the hre-escape and
clambered 10 the ground.
A similar scene was enacted on the
third floor IN a rear apartment lived
Mrs. Rantio and her 'weIve-year-old boy
George They CROPPED hlindly around look
ing for way of escape. The boy man
aged to reach a window. 1t also was
without a fre-escape and IN his terror he
jumped to the ground. He struck on his
side and head. He never moved after he
fell.