New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-15
TlNY RESCUES AT FIRE.
r-7,,5caec DreIers Taken from Fire
Escape by Firemen.

-. clouds of smoke filing TIE hallway %
cory tenement house ~ No 40 Colun'-
-.--eroa- threw TIE tenants into
W. rseer 10 &c: out they rushed to the
-. ,-lv TO ere Jets u fame shooting Up
-. -. ~-,r-d floor. and licking the psues OF
i-- r. -. windows that opened on The air
ha,; NJ,
mich occupies the ground floor, TIE Ere
- 80 eerceIy. Tatro,na1 Burke. CO Tho
80 - b.,rG-ed hist station, saw the smoke
.5 i- cn alarm. Then he rushed
al- s.. 4f;uri-g. On the lrs escape on The
- a. was Emil Kaupman. scantlly
- ,-s earning n his arms his two-yea--
.--.-,-s- Christina Behind was his vile.
e- - .,st- fve-uonth-old son. The smoke
ca. .--sreb the window after them. almost
.bs r-tle family from the gaze OF the
80 which had gathered IN the street
- isa-ed far over the IRE escape and
f----i A,rt 10 surrp The crowd shouted 70
- Patrolulen Blrke started Into the
Al- III. ne flames and smoke drove him
"a -, HOOK and Ladder Company no. p
Da,A r,srtenart FaE,n ana Fireman Reilly
che st-uats-n az q glance. They jumped
-, .-.ck while 4 was 10 motion. dragging
- ladder with them. This they placed
- =, Gre escape on the second floor and
~. --,r-te6 70 the fourth. AIRS. Kanpman
- = .-s-+ry overcome Icy the smoke auc was
- ~ the window sill Lieutenant Faglu
=. -, rsf,v from her arms and passed IL 20
80. no carried II 20 the street FaEin him
- - hold OF Mrs. kamgman. and, with
-. nour.pg from the lower windows. earned
= !, .4s street Kampman following In his
,sss with the EJue girl
-. are was FIRST discovered by two Journey
= bste-s known as william and Hermann,
- one of che big ovens. CUc from what cause
~ die NOT know. They tired 20 lght the
ss-ss tgt were driven out >eItner can SPEAK
rucish. AID snen they reached the sl1e"a-A
.-ev aid not know nll.l way 10 llIA. MS
Nu~5rv the 1aulI0r al the all--As, was cream
- snow nom me Sidewalk.
Shs aaherF pointed toward the house, ana
rs Nuruuv thinking she was wanted rushel
no the hallway. a. was hlleo WITH smoke ahl
She a- once shouted Fire. AND started lhrOLEn
lie building 20 warn the tenants. after she nae
reached the fourth floor sre remembered mat
her husband had left valuable papers in her care
and she rushed back 10 her room A1ier getting
the papers sue found escape CUT on 6ie o+-iiE-
che afrshaft WINDOW and with broom handle
ROUNDED on window iu the apartment o. Mrs
William NcSherry ln the next house. Mrs. Nc
Sherry and her husband succeeded IN Getiits
Mr Murphy across the arr smart INTO ineE
hone
Wrs Elvera Oliveos. Spanish widow. living
on the fourth floor was aroused az the cries ~
Nrs Murphy. and with her daughter Gertrude.
sixteen years old. and her sen. LsirO, ten years
Ole. escaped by way OF the ROOF
Nfr blanchard the baker. occupies an apart
snent on the second floor. When the fire broke
OUT no one was al home but Mrs Dells Dono-
hue siXty-fve wears OLD. cook, and She was
e.eer.1g She was awakened 10y The cries and
started into The hallway TIE smoke was mick
end she started 20 ascend but through fear. and
blinded hv the smoke she fen on the stairs
-vher half vav VI John Haney. who lives on
she tfir5 floor. was s-a-tirE FOR TIRE roof when
le ne woman fail lie went 70 her arc
end carried her 20 The roof.
When Battalion Chief Callahan arrived The
ere was burning So se~cniv thar ~ turned en-
second alarm. Many be~-e's az ccmbIs-ihle ma
terial used in cooking were stored iu tie front
end ~ -ne cellar and be made G. f-it 10 keep
tho cs-es from g. lie succeeded AFTER p hard
struggle Te ore q was sUh5Ue5 the FIRE had
eaten i's way 70 TIE thi-5 floor on che interior
a1- 10 the fourth floor W the ar SHAFT