New-York tribune., 1903-01-24
WOMEN KILLED AT FIRE.
BRUTES TR4MPLE THEM.
Police Pummei Coscdrds-T~ee
Dead, Thirteen Injured.

beat and trampled on women, and wers
themselves dubbed by the police.
THE DEAD.
KIRsCHBERG. Fannie. twenty-five years old, of No.
East Fourteenth,
sPARBARA Mary. twenty-five years old Of No cros-
THE INJURED.
ST. confusions to ;ody and possibly internal injuries
BN Albert nineteen bd od Of nes9 sS so ss aee
CAvoNER. Virginia tsupposed). of No Elizabeth-st.
employed Miller sons cigar factGry uneonsc0us'
Fifty ninthst compound fracture Of skull; Bellevue
CoRANALL thrtysix old @ cgarnakeT ;co of
N IS Stos neIona Rs Hospital
BaxteT-st.; shock hysIeTIoal and delirious St Vim
HAYWARD, al. Of Passaic " J.: burned about head
and hands
HIGGINS. Fayetta: broken
ANDsMN Pauline thirteen years OLD es5 ee Ms
oCSdjeioe oCs Aens Serious sssxeYf19R SeYoR Hospital
o h ss cad and G5 NH d3z
81. Vineent's HoSIItai
MARTERA. Annie. fory-hve old. Of No. lSZ bax
ter-st.; shock. -
SiHA s17SA. MadESe docatsd Sfn1SSih aHEe years O''
TITUS Police Captain George F.; bruises
vINCENzo. Regina. bruises and shock
girl old asFhyxatCn ggssfs 5g sGks
unconscious: condition serious; NeW-1 orA osp' ~,
Two hySterical
cents Hospital.
The manic was caused by a fire in the Elm
Square Building at Nos. 159 and 161 Crosoy-st-'
which is eight stories high and extends through
to Elm-st Just before 9 o'clock flames purst
from pile of tissue paper on the thiro nooI' i'
the workshop Of the New Idea Publishing Colll-
pany, manufacturers Of paper patterns OLA
hundred men and women were at work on the
various floors OF the cigar factory. when hre
burst through the window of the aoJoliilis
building One girl saw ii and yelled fne! n
panic ensued. The cry of fire was tahen "p
and was soon echoing through the entire fac
tory. The building is provided with hre escapes
on the front and rear, and stairway about four
foe. wide serves as a means of exit on the
Crosby-st. side and is the only way, OUTSIDE VI
the fire escapes of getting out Of the pullolis'
The balconies and ladders Of the hre escapee
on both sides of the factory were soon piaoH
with a struggling mass Of men ana women aiiI
the narrow stairway was speedily blocked Win
g similar mass of panic stricken people
On the fire escapes men kicked and puncheo
women in their mad efforts to get down. Ahoso
on the lower balcony were for some time una oie
to lower the ladder to the street ana
. number jumped to the sidewalk distance
of about twelve feet.
Sergeant Bourke, of Commissioner Greenes
heard the cry of fire. He ran to the Elm 81
side of the building with Tierney. of the Detec-
five Bureau and Detective Sergeant hrouch'
lust as they arrived there Hook and Laoder
Company No 8 reached the scene. LADDERS
were thrown against the factory and one OF
them was put to the fire escape. Lleutehaill
Farley Bourke, Krouch and Tlerney orecteu
their efforts TO rescuing the women from the
terrible jam The conduct of the men SO e&as-
,,arated the rescuers that after shouting to them
several times to stop trampling on the women
the fremen and policemen punched the brutes
right and left and drove them back into the
building The women were then taken down.
Similar scenes were being enacted on the
Crosby-st side of the factory, where the crew
of Hook and Ladder Company No 70 got to
work Police Captain Titus was on his way to
hea dQuarters when the panic started. and, with
Moneypenny of the Mulberry-st sta
tfon he ran to the Crosbyst. entrance. There
they found a struggling, shrieking mass or men
and women, the men exhibiting the coWardlce
that had disgraced their fellows on the Em-st.
side Titus and Moneypenny, with Sergeant
Rourke who had meantime come around 10
Crosby-st., dragged out the fainting women & ana
forced their way partly up the stairway Ihey
ss men punching and kicking the factory girls,
and tried to reach the beasts with their CLUBS
Sargea Mt Rourke made his way halfway up the
stairs and struck men right and LETT with MS
fists in an effort to make them give the women
a chance One by one the factory hands We're
appeared on the street policemen ana clVlilahs
who had seen their brutality knocked them down
on the sidewalk 49,,
The dead and injured were carried to the
street and a call sent out for nine ambulances
Two responded from New-1ork, three rom rom
Bellevue two from st. vincent s. one tLo III
and one from Hudson Street nos
pitfalls. a +,;s
hroupht Chaplain walkley, of the Fire Depart
menf1 who. with Fathers Kearney and O'Brien:
of St Patrick's Church, and Father Cappo OF
a neighboring Italian church. succeeded III
ouieting many OF the hysterical women Mary
Sra rI,ara who was unconscious and dying on
the second floor of the factory. where she had
been fatally crushed in the mao rusn r~eceINeu ~
the Ia st rites from Father Kearney, just be1ore
she oxpired The body of Jennie Messlno was
fo1nd on the same floor. Fanny kfrschbers
was killed by fall from the fire escape on lle
C,rosbv-st. side. The last sacraments were aiso
= administered to four unconscious women before
they were taken to the hospitals
An Immense crowd collected, and the reserves
n ,ba Macdoueal-st izabeth-st. and Mercer
e. stations were called out to drive it back SO
the firemen could work. The fremen found one
first floor, IL Crosby-st. ana II was noe u,,Il LiI
thev kicked her hand that she released her hoid
and dropped into the arms or men Waitlhs "
catch her. .s -d
Cantain Titus was badly squeezed ana
,r,1ieed while struggling with the panic stricken
people in the halls that ne al n1sI sro ne Ie his
hTeatb after the excitement was over Ihe cap
tain carried several women 10 me street. anu
Iohn Boland and julie Buisley, the elevator
men in the Elm Square building, continued TO
run their elevators until all the tenants VINO
wanted to use ,hem had got out
Police Commissioner Greene. as soon as ne
,.ae informed of the fatalities attending the
roao;c ordered Acting Inspector OBrien and
ECan+a;r Titus TO make an investigation TO de-
tern9ine whether there was culpabiltty on the
narf of ANYBODY. District Attorney Jerome VS.
ired the scene about II o'clock
1be 6rs fs said to have started in a singular
vay. On the third floor of the building are
number of cutting machines and printing
-Seseee IN which metal weights are used to
i,aey1 the paper from being blown about. 1t Is