New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-02
SAVED By LYING CHAIN.
Firemen Passed Men and Women
from Wiadozg to Windozc.

Tribune. started about a. N. in the five story
tenement house at No. 426 Eleventh-ave-. and
which the police and Coroner Scholer believe to
have been of incendiary origin.
Some Of the peculiar features OF the disaster
were that the fire was practically extinguished
IN twenty minutes. that the police could learn Of
only one person being injured other than those
who lost their lives. and that there was prop
erty loss Of only $1,000
The dead are:
BARoLIc Antonio seventeen yes-s cid sunocatea and
burned.
BRocoRA, Antonio thirty-four sufrocatsd.
CAPPELLI Giuseppe thirty-hve burned and su-ocated
DANGELo Antonio forty. surocated and burned
DELMONIo. Frank. twenty-three. surocated.
DEREsI Pietro twenty-six. surocatsd-
DONYSI Pietro thirty. sunocated
MARoTTo PasquaIs. forty-one. su1ocated-
MAsTRENIo. Frank. twenty-four burned
MUsTRIM Tor NrustioIo). jose. twenty. suroeated-
Mccall, Nicholas. twenty-five sunocatsd-
oTooLE. Sarah. forty-eght. widow. burned
ROssI. Giuseppe. eighteen
ROSsI. Antonio twenty.
RossI. Justine. twenty-ons brothers. all surocatsd-
UCILINI. Antonio. twenty-five. surocatsd
vENDRANO. Matteo. forty. burned
VILLYO Antonio tenty-seven burned and suftocated-
YILLYO Frances twenty-thrse. his wife. burned and
vINGIGUERBo MacuIsta. tventy-seven. suToeatsd
vINGIGUERRo PhiIomena. her daughter ten months.
sufocate1.
zoROwITCF Joseph twenty-tour suffocaed and 5urned
suffocated and burned.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN. Italian. laborer, thirty-hve.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN Italian. Iaborer thirty. burned
The only one injured so far as the police could
learn. was Mary Jane Quinn forty-seven years
old She was burned about the face and hands,
and severely bruised by leaping from the second
floor rear fire escape to the ground. She was
taken TO St Vincents Hospital and probably
Will recover
The bodies Of the dead were removed to the
morgue al Bellevue Hospital
DEATH STRUGGLE AT WINDOWS.
In several Of the apartments Halloween
parties we're being held when the alarm was
sounded Firemen policemen and others outdid
themselves in the work OF rescue. and many
heroic deeds were done that will never be re-
corded, owing 10 the fact that the rescues were
so numerous.
When the hrenlen we're able TO search for
bodies they found those OF men and w men
TANNED in the windows. front and rear. show
ing that the desperate struggle to get free had
proved their undoing. retarding their progress
until the smoke overcame them and they died
On bed alongside of window at the rear Of
the fourth floor were the bodies Of five men,
Each had clutched the one next 70 him and
trieti to push him away in a desperate struggle
70 get to the fire escape Their faces were dis
torted. some with rage and others with agony.
while in two instances the men had gripped each
other so hard that blood had run over their
hands
On the third floor the bodies Of Mrs
1-tnsfeLer-o aud her children were found
The mother had crawled to the front window
and had succeeded in grasping the windowsin
when she was sufocated. In her arms was the
child. which appeared as if sleeping on it's
mothers breast.
Life nets played an important part IN the
work of rescue. Scaling ladders from the roof
to the first floor. front and rear, were strung,
the fire having burned out the stairway above
the second floor. The iremen dropped men and
women. dead and alive, from one floor to an
other, and finally the men standing on the
scaling ladders on the first floor let the living
and dead fall into life nets. held by policemen
and fremen In the street.
Although plentifully provided with FIRE
escapes. front and rear. this means Of escape
was cut off a few minutes after the fire had
started by the bodies Of the dead which were
wedged in the openings to ladders
Narrowing scenes took place in the streets.
The fremen were forced to strike with their
fists men that crowded women back into the
rooms in their frantic endeavors to get out and
save themselves. Nearly every fireman told Of
seeing these human brutes, intent saving
their own lives. and caring nothing for the
women and children or weaker ones that strus-
gled to get free.
It Is believed that the fire had been burning
for several minutes before the first alarm was
sent in. It is known to have started in a wood
shed in the basement but from what cause las
not Yet been determined The flames burned
through the ground floor and left the stairway
to the first and second floors untouched. At the
ceiling of the second floor. however, the fire
spread out and the interior OF the building
from the third to the fifth floors was entirely
consumed.
1t was at 1 % o'clock that Patrolman Birming-
ham. Of the West Thirty-seventh-st. station.
heard screams coming from the house. He saw
an immense cloud of smoke coming from the
rear Of the building. and. without stopping to in
vestigate, turned in an alarm
On the third floor Mrs German. her husband
Edward: Mrs Sarah O'ToOle. who persisted: her
son John. Mrs. Hannah Crowley. eighty years
old and six boarders. were holding Halloween
party. The son John opened the door prepara-
tory to going out for a pint OF beer
He was met by a cloud of smoke that sent him
back into the rooms gasping for breath He I'M
mediately ran to the rear fire escape. crying
Fire and was followed by all in the apart
ment, with the exception of Mrs. O'Toole. she
remained behind, and her charred body was
found lying in the entrance to the apartment by
the fremen.
Mrs. Marguerite Garfield. the janitor OF the
house and her four children occupied the ground
floor. They discovered the fire almos. soon
did O'Toole. and Mrs Garfield screamed loudly.
Her cries alarmed the other tenants in the
house. and it then that the struggle TO get
out Of the building began.
Mrs. Garfield managed TO get into the street
with her four children before the other tenants
began running down the stairs When the COM