Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-18
SIX VICTIMS.
Work of the Fire Fiend
| at New York.
Others Seriously Burned in
Tenement House Blaze.
Over One Hundred Persons in Grea.
Danger.

New York, Oct. 17.-Six lives wore
lost, nearly score of persons were in :
Jured ana the lives of more than 100
others were endangered in an early
tenement house fire in the Williams
burg section of Brooklyn, Monday.
With one exception. all the dead are
children and of eight VINO were so bad
ly hurt that they We're removed to n
hospital, the Oldest is a 14-year-old
girl. nlcendlarles are thought to have
! been responsible for the fatal fire and
this theory is strengthened by the fact
that while the firemen We're at work on
the blaze alarms We're turned in for
two other fires in the immediate neigh
! bOrhood.
The dead are: Bella Glass, aged 20
years; Henry Glass. aged 2 years; Ida
Sal;onsky, aged years: Benjamin
Warkolsky. aged II years; Gussie
Warkolsky. IA years; Charles Wark-
clsky, years.
The seriously injured: Harry Glass.
6 wears: Abram Warko!sky, years:
Minnie Warkolsky. 10 years; Annie
Warkolsky, years: Max Rabinokitz, s
years. Sarah Ra binoWitZ aged IL.
Twelve families consisting of 100
persons We're asleep in the building
when the fire was discovered. When
the alarm was sounded through the
the latter with babies. others with
children clinging to the nightclothes
ran to the Railways. There they were
met with the great clouds of choking
smoke while the flames We're rapidly
closing in about them. Some of the
tenants took to the fire escapes. 9th
ers fled to the roof before the onrush-
ing flames and stood there screaming
for help.
Before the iiremen arrived police re-
serves had rescued many persons from
The building. When the firemen came,
human lines were formed on the fire
escapes and the screaming women and
children We're lowered to the pave
ments. The flames burst from WIN
dows all about them and the clothes
of many of them We're burned from
their body Their hair was singed and
their bodies burned.
At the same time firemen with seal
ing LADDERS had reached the room and
We're carrying down to safety the
frenZed women and children who had
been driven from the blazing building.
Many persons unable to reach either
roof or ire escapes were taken from
windows through which the flames al
ready We're beginning to pour. While
the fire was at its height the hVe
WarkOlskys were huddled in a blaz-
ing room. Their night clothes were
burning. their hair burned from their
heads and their bodies blistered.
They were carried to the street and
taken to hospital in serious con-
dition. Their rescurers suffered Sc
vercly from the smoke and intense
heat. A few minutes later three more
children, all of them unconscious. were
found in the upper part of the building
and carried out by the firemen.
AS the rescuers rushed to the street
three other iiremen, each bearing the
dead body of a child came down the fire
Escape from the fifth floor. The body
of Mrs. Glass was recovered soon after
wards.
While the fire was at its height fires
were discovered in hardware store
in Graham avenue and in Grand
street retail shop within few blocks
of the tenement house fire. These were
ouickly subdued without serious loss.
The death list IS a result Of the IRE
was increased to six during the day ny
the death of Gussie and Charles war
tolsky at a hospital. Several OF IN"
injured were said To be in serious
condition.