New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
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Mother and Daughter Jump Three
Stories at g 7lco Mines Fire.
DARING LADDER RESCUE BY POLICE

life. The call was because of another fire in
the Antonette. at No. 43 East Fifty-eighth-st..
attended by almost exciting Incidents
force of thirty engines and enough pieces OF
other apparatus to make up fifty were at the
Sixty-f1fth-st fire, which, on account of the
other, was left burning for half hour before
an engine sent to it.
A number of persons injured. two ofs
| them seriously, and they were taken to Roose-
welt Hospital They were Mrs. Mary Parker,
of Nc Is West Sixty-f1fth-st.. who jumped
from a third story window, her fall being broken
by some policemen and other men, and her
daughter, Miss Lillian Cleveland, who also
jumped from the same window and whose life
was saved in the same way. They were bruised
and some bones broken, but they are not
in dangerous condition.
The fire started just before o'clock in the
rooms of E. Wilson a mining engineer. His
wife was dressing when she discovered fire IN
| their bedroom. She screamed to her husband
and he tried to extingush the flames but with
out success. When they fed to the street other
tenants had become alarmed, and were follow
| ing like course.
AS a large part of the apparatus was work
ing on the Fifty-eighth-st fire. four alarms had
been sounded, and the Fifty -eighth-st- blaze
practically out when the ringing of two
nines' sent thirty engines to the Sixty -hfth-st
fire.
Smoke and flame had filed the halls and
shafts and attacked a number of the rooms.
and the people who had not got out first were
in dangerous state. f. w. Lehne a builder, or
No. II West Sixty St, had gone through
the house with of his assistants and
knocked number of doors, arousing every
body. Mrs. Harris. on the second floor. asked
Lekne to save some of her clothing. He ran in
and got a number of dresses, but was burned
about the hands
Mrs. Parker and her daughter Miss Cleve-
land and another daughter, were in their rooms
on the third floor. They were terrified but the
sister out and managed to get safely to the
street. Mrs Parker wanted to save some of
her Jewels and money as did her daughter, who
had $1,000 in a drawer. But, becoming terri
fed. they ran the window. They opened
it. and frantic, were about to jump lne
crowd in the street them and shouted warn
ings. No one could get through the burning
house at this time and the women had to jump
Policeman Frank Brady was in front with Dr-
Young, of No 46 West Sixty-ffth-st.. and a
number of others. They formed a ring at the
instance of Brady who said they might be able
to save the women and. moving in toward the
front of the house. Brady yelled to Miss Cleve-
land who was in front:
Now jump!
The womans Mortified face could be seen
from away below, and with shrek. she threw
barea1e down She broke through the mems
tightly cIasped hands. but they broke her fali
sufficiently to her life. She escaped WIN
A broken leg contusons of the body and shoch-
She was quickly carried to an ambulance tour
of which waiting from the hooSe'eit anu
Presbyterian hospitals
Jump" shouted Brady to Mrs Parker, VINO
WAS now out on the sill. with flames and smoke
behind her nd the smoke so dense IN 'front.' ol
the house that she hidden at times
The woman thought she might climb down
and clambered out as II she hoped 10 cdt'i
something But she slipped from fear ana
weakness and went down headlong cry VI
horror went up from the people. nut hiaus
DR. Young and the others. with hahuS SUI
erasped in the circle ran in and managed 10
get under her before she hit the grouhu' @lie
hit their arms and bodies and rolled 10 'he
ou,d but her only injuries were a broken
wrist and a bruised body
Miss Cleveland piteously begged for some one
tn get the 50 900 in her room There was d Piie
Of debris in front of the house in Whlch 1t was
Thought all sorts of jewels and valuabies would
he found as many persons had thrown soine oi
their belongings into the street =, IT..
Mrs. Eliza beth Flood, eighty years olo, liVed
on tho ron floor. She alone by the Lie
the other tenants on that floor hao gone ou. tne
smoke was too dense to get downstairs anu inc
apad woman was weak from the excitement anu
the smoke she had inhaled Captain hear' OF
tho West Sixty-eig hth-st. station. with Braoy.
t-bo bod r,In up through the next house. and
Policeman Robbins, got LADDER Whlch tney
let down to the fifth floor fire escape, on wnlcn
tho aeed woman was. Then Brady leaned over
and steadied the ladder Dobbins held Brady
over the edge of the roof, and Captain kear
steadied Dobbins 1t was feat recurring IN IA goGd 2
deal of strength. the ladder had to be heid
unrieht and Brady could not lean over far
enough TO hold it without being held himself
Mrs Flood climbed the ladder and captain
her IN the roof. Then uhey TOOK a1ler
to the street by another house
Firemen Murphy, oToole and Hoffman of
Hook and Ladder Company II, got to the
roof of the burning house and found man half
overcome by smoke lying there Iney carried
him sto the street and left him at DR.. W. Wad-
iev's home. where several persons affected by
the smoke had been taken
Fireman Murphy also got into the first floor
of the house, where he heard husky voice
He groped In the darkness and dense smoke
till he came to the voice He put out his hand
and felt some wires Ihen voice salor
It said this twice in quick succession. Murphy
then knew he had suffocat1ng parrot. and as
this was all there to save, he got out as
quickly as he could go. dragging the cage after
him He says that the parrot kept on calling
out: "Lemmegodamit. lemmegodamit!' all the
time until he got to the street, when, the cage
having suffered from the flames, the bottom
dropped out and the parrot flew away
The great number of engines footing, buzZ1ng
ond r;ngino heIs with the great variety of con-
fusing noises attracted a large crowd to the
scene and the streets were filled with fre ap-
paratuS and people Ine RESERVES VI tie west
sixtv-eighth-st West Forty-seventh-st., West
One-hundredth and West One-hundred- and |
twentv-ffth-st stations called out to keep |
the crowd back and in order
The breaking up at the Fifty-eighth-st fire, |
coupling of hose. gathering 1t on the tenders,
detachment of nozzles and making for the |
Sixty -fifth-st. fire marvellous piece of |
quick disciplinary work according to hundreds |
who witnessed it.
The police estimated the damage at 100000.
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