The sun., 1902-12-11
1.-TWO MINES" FOR FLAT FIRE.
fLAZE IN THE ANTOINETTE HAD
TAKEN ALL TIE ENGINES.
Downtown Companies Called To sixty.rfth
strret-TwO Women Hurt II, jumping
Capt. kear Helps In Rescue ui.
age NJ First the blaze Was slight.


strret-Two Women Hurt II, jumping
Capt. Kear Helps In a Rcscuc--Dsui.
age at First the blaze Was slight.
fire in the Ant oinette apartment house,
at 39-li West Sixty-eighth street about
o'clock yesterday afternoon. followed fif-
teen minutes later by one in the five-story
double fiat at ~ West Sixty-ffth street,
led TO the sending in of the two mines
alarm for the second fire. This called out
twenty-five engine companies and eight
trucks from as far south AZ Fifth street
and as far north a. Eighty-sixth street.
The -two mines" were needed becaus"
80 many OF the engines in that district
were at the first fire. Only one of the fires
caused much property loss, but both fur
nished lots Of excitement TO the crowd ia
the street.
At the Sixty-fifth street blaze two omen
Mrs. Mary Parker and her daughter, Mrs
Lillian Cleveland were hurt by jumping
from a thrd-story window. while anot her
woman was rescued by human chain"
of policemen, of which Capt. Rear was
one link The two injured women were
taken to Roosevelt Hospital. Mr.. Parker
with broken ankle and her daug ter with
internal injuries.
The fire was caused by lace curtalu
blowing against a ligh; ID gas jet ia the
rooms Of Mrs. EiiZaDath Harris IN the
second floor. Mrs. Harris wasn't in, but
a messenger boy, who saw the flames from
the street ran and told the JaHitress. She
went next door and telephoned Police
Headquarters for a fire engine The mos
sage went to Fire Headquarters and Engine
40. in Sixty-eighth street, was notified. All
of this took some time. and when the en-
gine gov there the -cco, d door Was an aze.
A cal, was sent III frCin broauway and
Sixty-fOurth street
Az least ten minutes elapsed between
the discovery of tn" iiro ana thc time this
alarm was rung. As result, the IRE had
gained much headway. All The tenants
got out safely, however. cNcep, Mr,. Par
ker and her daughter and Mrs, ttOou,
who was III III beu On the top floor.
Mrs. IA knr G..d NJ. =. ti-v- .G..d fund
the han- filed with smoke. b ,th turned
back AID went to t!c front window. man
it, the crowd below ran into an Gljui.iag
house and came back with lot of beu
clothing which h. piled up on the side
walk. Then lie called for volunteers to
catch the women al the "a No time shoutu Z
Tor them to jump. lie ana four ether me-.
formed ring around th" led clothing
Then they shouted for MIR. G. v"IGnd to
jump. She fell sideways, the circle oi mon
breaking her fall with their arms beiu'e
she landed Cu the ted 81, thing. Her
mother. Mrs. Parker, stood for a moner.t
on the window sill. Then she too jumped
landing feet first oU the shoulders Of orc
of the men and elaLcing On so that she
fell against the iron rtoop RAJ. She was
picked up unconscious
Police Captain Kcar, who 10y this time
had arrived with two of his men, Dobbins
and Mclaughlin, went to tia roof Of Is
and tined TO get down through the scut' t.
but were driven back by the smoke" Hear
ing screams, they pe"red over the cornice
in the rear AID saw a. elderly woman on
the ffth fOor fire escape balcony, She
was fifteen feet below them. Dobbils
lay down on the roof ard lea aycd far over
the edge while Capt koGr AID Policeman
Mclaughlin sat on his legs TO Lold him
there. Then Policeman Brady climbed
down over Dobbins and dropped to th.
fire escape balcony. The woman was Mrs
Flood. who had Just been all. TO crawl out
on the balcony and shout. Brady picked
her up in his arms and climbed on the bal
cony rail so he was able To pass her up 10
Dobbins. The latter held her while Capt
Ksa" and Mclaughlin dragged her safely
up TO the roof In the same way they
drew Brady hack to the roof.
BY this time the fire had spread through
al Of the floors and was eating its way into
he houses on either side. The firernen
turned in second and third alarm from
the Broadway box This should have
rousht a dozen engine companies. four
trucks, the chief, deputy chief and four lat
talon chiefs
As a matter Of fact so many Of the com
ranies were at the Fast Fifty-eiChth street
FIRE that II was necessary to sound the "two
mines. The effect of this was 10 send all
the engines that would have answered a
three .alarm fire from the box at Broadway
and Twenty-seventh street to the fire at
Sixty-ffth street Tie nine-nino &C, j. like
stimuli aneous three-alarm signal from
two boxes summoning all the engines to one
point
The damage at Sxty-ffh street was
placed at $sO.OOO The inside Of the house
wss pretty we'll wrecked and the adjoining
building suffered some less
After the fire WAS under control there
was talk among the firemen that il he'd toen
badly handled. Deputy Chief Purroy was
in charge and sent in the two mines" All
Chief Croker would say was
/ don't know who SEN, i'm the signal
Of the two n'nes, but whoever did il
wanted more engines and 10 got them the
only thing to 90 after sending in a three
alarm from q three-aarm tox was to snnd
In the two nine signal | naturally sun
pose that Deputy Chief Purroy sent II In,
FOR this Is his district and he was in charge
here until ] came"
The fire in the Antoinette, at which the
needed engines were busy. started in one
of the coal bins in tho cellar. and y hilc
there wasn't much flame, there vas n great
deal OF thick black smoke that ,Con found
its way through the entire hOusa The
elevator boy discovered he fire. and he and
Supt. John r O'Reillv ran through tLo
house sounding the alarm and incidentally
adding vastly to the Excitement
Most of those on the o,, or floors got out