The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-03-18
SCORE OF PEOPLE PERISH mo
MANY ARE INJURED IN NV
YORK DISASTER.
LOSS OF LIFE Due TO AE6LG5@G:
FIRE ESCAPES cLoGGED BY RUB.
elsH AND skYLIGHT DOOR
FASTENED TIGHT.

0SVSAo VSAS ~ 0~o@S
may die and forty others reeetse,J
slighter hurts in a fire that prae gtoatf
destroyed a five-story tenement aot.tf
in Allen street early in the day 70
fire had gained great Roadway beI@fP
it became known to most Of tas tatk
ants and many of them were cnt -
before they could make an attic y
save themselves. Thrilling reeAGt
and daring leaps for life MARI ~ ~
fire. Scores were carried fro nf
blazing building. Firemen ci.nlue1
the walls on their scaling iaanc-L
braved the flames and reached LIE inA-
perilled tenants.
Crowded fire escapes in the rear q
the tenement house were large Y re-
sponstble for so many deaths AMI IN
juries among its population, viii (. an
preached 200 souls. Another &C e OF
the terrible loss Of life was ne. snGeb
in failing to keep the skyligh, door
free and clear. 1t was not only Ia
tened tight, but also frozen.
The scenes about the building after
the fire was over and when the search
for the dead was begun were heart
rending. Nothing SO pitiful OF sucp'
proportions has been seen in New YORK
since the Slocum disaster. When p
thousand persons, nearly all OF them
women and children, lost their lives.
Explosion Cause Of the Fire.
The fire started in the basement,
occupied by Isaac Davis, his wife ANN
three children, and was caused by tnET
EXPLOSION of q kerosene lamp. Davsse
and his wife attempted to put out. Up
fire but failed. A policeman wn0@
heard the cry of alarm rushed 20; III
scene and every effort wal nade
arouse the sleeping persons. IN LEA
house.
In the meantime the flames nse,
spread with startling rapidly ~
when the persons who had been asleeFft
on the upper floors awoke they =
themselves confronted by q wall "
flames on nearly every side.
Scenes of the widest d~escriptlots
followed. Panic stricken people, fight
ing for their lives, rushed to the dJe
escapes only to find them Uttered with
rubbish of all descriptions and Almo1
impossible. Down through this nasti.
row passageway followed streams 81
people. On some escapes the rubbish
was so closely packed that 1t becau4
impossible to pass certain points and
men, women and children stood litoar
ally roasting to death as the lameb
roared through windows around the3
Heroic Policeman Badly Injured.
One of the escapes. which endet
feet above the ground, had beaoE
manned by Policeman John 3. Dwal
who had run a plank across to the vii
dow of an adjoining building. Nearly
q dozen persons had been carried
across this narrow bridge by the %
liceman when the flames began
sweep around the lower end Of the III
escape. flushing into the fire the %
liceman seized a little child and start
ed on the last return trip across p
the place OF safety. He had made onlE
half the distance when the planl,
burned more than half through, hsoles
where it rested on the fire escape a1id
the rescuer and rescued fell to TIE
stone paved yard twenty feet below.
The nan struck fairly on his baGk
and one of his shoulders was shattered
by the force of the fall. The chin
was uninjured.
In the meantime, the flremen had yvn
up ladders at other points and many
people were being taken from To
crowded fire escapes and upper WIN
dows. BY this time the building was.a
furnace and the rescues e effeo16d
in many ase only after the greatGet
show of bravery on the part Of &e
liremen.
Girl Gives Way to Little Brother.
Heroes developed at this time. LAou.
tenant Bonner, son of the former 14e
chief, assembled the now redhot Ne
escapes five times, each time coaiQx
down with q woman or a child in hs
arms.
AS Bonner reached q fourth atpyy
window ON one Of his ascents, nd
dragged a little girl from a wf1Aov
where she stood surrounded by III -.
The pleaded with him to leave h1e -
The escape and 20 in after her. 4 q
brother, whom she had carried to 70 ~
He had fallen unc0nsceQ&e
md was roasting, she said. Boaaey
through the window and j.
seemed to those below as II he -
going into q furnace. He found
little boy just inside the window Id
him out.
AS the Are progressed the a&uqxa
scenes were repeated ct other
and ut windows on MI q le
# the building. The identified 4
ire: Rachael Solomon, aged fostys
ears; Jacob Solomon, sixteen;
Solomon. eighteen; Jessie Cohsa,
cen; Rose Wiener, twenty-three;
Ter Wiener, four: Ida Muskowits. i ;
Harry kaufman, ten; Rove M
Sarah Kline. sixty; BsllI sa
e.. thirty; Harry siedlsr, 90
d l''lfr Miller. Ave months old.