New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-05
PERISH In FIRE TRAP.
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and Engine Company II. from Eas. H,r,,l
ton-st were on the spot in a few r,or,s,t.
Up went the ladders. and up the ladders To ~.
lowest fire escapes went Stevens and KAN
heisch- Meantime. while the hremen were wort.
ing. vast throng assembled IN the narron,
street, getting in the way and hampering N.
work generally. Captain Handy from IN.
Union Market police station, called out m.
reserves from FIVE precincts. and pushed hal,
the excited Hebrews. Ambulances from fou.
hospitals were summoned. and their arrival
added TO the wild excitement.
Even before the fremen came there were SOM,
thrilling rescues. Harry NeedlI, who lived an
the third floor, awakened by the craekIinv
Of the flames He looked out into the hallway
and nearly enguIfed In a sheet OF Aans
Siamming shut the door, he got his father and
mother to the fire escapes. There was no lad
der to the next story, but below him he saw two
large beams. Climbing out, he dropped land
ing on one of the timbers. He directed his
father to lower his mother to him. Then h.
clutched her by the hands. and lowered her uu-
til she could drop into the arms OF men on tia
ground. He and his father then dropped TO
safety
Mrs. Fannie Fischer and her young son ABE"
were sleeping on the roof. The boy was awak
ened by the heat. He helped his mother along
the roof to the roof Of an adjoining house
through which they reached the ground
Herman Schrenk and his wife. Minnie scram-
bled down to the lowest fire escape, then leaned
from there to mattresses spread on the ground
They escaped injury. Samuel. Rose and Sarah
HICKMAN and Charles Thurman and his wife
escaped frcm rear fire escapes over blanks
which Morris Ellen and other neighbors had
raised TO the beams on the second floor.
A BRAVE FTREMAN's ACCOUNT
we saw how rickety the building was" Fire
man Kalbheisch said. "and ran UP two twenty
foot ladders at once. Michael Stevens and T
went u2. Stevens getting to the fire escapes ON
the third floor. These were black with women
and children, shouting and screaming. Stevens
began picking them off and passing them down
TO me. 7 passed them to Nelson. who was be-
low me, and he handed them 10 Lieutenant
Sheridan.
Pretty soon went up to the third floor when
there was a little room for me, and Nelson and
Sheridan worked up one. Captain Harmon TAX
ing the lowest ladder The fire escape was so
climbing over. 1 went clean up to the top
moor. L saw little boy In doorway almost
dead. and passed him down. Then 1 saw a
young girl with four little fellows around her.
she told me 10 get them out first, and L passed
them down, one by one Then I came back for
her, and she put her arms around nv neck
while l backed out to the ladder She Kissed
me every step OF the way. on the third floor
was man; who told me to drop the girl and
hotter. and as passed him. backing down the
ladder, ne kicked me in the face"
Mnen the balcony gave way Adamosky AMI
william Bentsch, OF Engine No. II. and Philip
Huolitz, OF Truck No. IS. were working there
while John BOight OF Engine No IL was on
the balcony just below. He was struck and car
RED TO the ground. pile of bedding saved him
ard Hublitz. but Adamosky was caught under
the not iron ana torn anc cut
RECOVERY OF THE BODIES.
Although so disastrous, the fire was soon
killed under the volume OF water poured on il.
Then began the hunt through the ruins for
bodies Of victims. In the smouldering fourth
and fifth floor Railways they were found. charred
and twisted. The hremen and police recovered
eleven bodies They were laid out on the side
walk temporarily and then taken 10 the Union
Market police station. Captain Handy had them
put into side room. and he reverentiy land tho
large station house flag over them.
Most Of the injured were taken 10 GouverreUr
Hospital Three OF them died in the hospital.
Adamosky. the most seriously injured OF ths
fremen. is not expected to recover. The physi-
clans decided to amputate one OF his legs 10 Try
to save him. He has been fireman only two
months
Coroner Scholer. after viewing the building,
said he had no doubt that the removal OF the
Are escapes from the first two stories cost many
lives. He said last night that he had ordered
OF the building and the contractor and foreman
OF construction He had a talk with the build
ing inspector for that district. but thought that
responsibility would rest on the Tenement Houss
Department
Thomas c 7 Grain. the Tenement House
Commissioner, said last night;
The law requires that all plans for the alteration
OF buildings shall be fled with The Buildings De-
partnasuJ and IT the OF tenement houses they
also De fled with the Tenement HOUSE. COM
mission In this instance I able say az
this time whether the plans for the alterations
- n filed with either department or not AssuIn-
ing that they were. and that far as the plans
themselves we're concerned the law EO- v.oliI>
ed In any way. still the contractor may not nave
made TIE alterations properly II he was guilty o.
anything Ike removing the fire escapes, II shouid
have been noced by the police and oy the inspectors
II the employ OF the Buildings Department and ths
Tenement House Commission.
There S3,o00 tenement houses IN New YORK
and IL Is not always 10 keep as close Watch on
things would like 10 with the force or men
CONN, and but since became Commissioner
I have been particularly jealous n me matter o
fire escapes on tenement houses One o the LISl
owners OF tenement houses 20 construct proper nre
escapes where there were none
Detective Sergeant Lennon. OF the Union Mar
ket station. last night arrested Leon Sober. an
owner OF the building and Henry Breitrlan, the
superintendent OF construction work They ana
Morris Levine. the lessee. arrested earlier, are
charged with criminal negligence.