The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-18
CHILDREN PERISH
IN BLAZING HOUSE
AWFUL WORK OF FIREBUGS.
BROOKLYN TENEMENT SCENE OF
FEARFUL SUFFERING.

More Than Hundred Sleeping Per-
sons Nearly Became victims of
TOrch-Six Children Sunocate and
Score Are Hurt-Human Lines
Enable Great Many 10 Escape, but
Hair Burned from Heads of the
Escaping.
New York, Oct. 17.-Six lives were
lost, nearly a score of persons were
injured and the lives of more than a
hundred others were endangered in the
early morning tenement house fire in
the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn
to-day, an account Of which has al
ready been given in these dispatches.
With one exception all the dead are
children. Incendiaries are thought to
have been responsible for the fatal
fire and this theory is strengthened by
the fact that while the firemen were
at work on the blaze alarms were
turned in for two other fires in the inn
mediate neighborhood. The dead:
Bella Glass. 90 years.
Henry Glass, 2 years.
Ida Saltofsky, years.
Benjamin, Gussie and Charles War
koIsky, aged II. ID and years.
The seriously injured:
Harry Glass. years.
Abram Workolsky. years.
Minnie Warkolsky, years.
Annie Warkolsky, s years.
May Eahipouitz 1yaore
Sarah Rabinowitz, years.
Mothers With Babes in Arms.
Twelve families comprising 100 per-
sons, were asleep in the big five-story
double tenement house when the flames
were discovered. When the alarm was
sounded through the house the men
and women, some of the latter with
babies in arms, others with little
boys and girls clinging to the night
clothes of their mothers, ran to the
hallway.
There they were met with great
clouds of choking smoke while the
flames were rapidly closing in about
them. Before the firemen arrived, po-
lice reserves from a nearby station had
rescued many persons from the blaz-
ing building.
Human Lines Formed.
When the firemen came, human lines
We're formed from the fire escapes and
screaming women and children were
lowered to the pavement. The flames
burst from windows all about them,
and the clothes of many of them We're
burned from their bodies. Their hair
was signed and their bodies burned
At the same time firemen with seal
ing ladders had reached the roof and
We're carrying down to safety the
frenzied women and children who had
been driven from the blazing rooms.
Many persons unable to reach either
roof or fire escape, were taken from
windows through which the flames al
ready We're beginning to pour.
HuddIed i'm Blazing Room.
The five Warkolsky children were
found huddled in a blazing room by
fireman. Their night clothes were
burning. the hair burned from their
heads, and their bodies blistered, They
were taken to a hospital in serious
condition. Their rescuers suffered Sc
verely from the smoke and heat.
A few moments later three more
children. all 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 fremen, 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 aft
erwards.
While the fire was at its hight tires
were discovered in a hardware store
in Graham avenue and in a Grand
street tailor shop, within a few blocks
of the tenement house fire. These
were quickly subdued without serious
loss