The evening world., 1905-07-01
; DIED IN FIRE,
TWO Persisted
TRYING TO SAVE
Father Of Children Ran Into
Blaze Kindled by Incen-
diary After Rescue.

A sister and father met death in
heroic efforts to save brother and chill
dren from the flames OF an incendiary
fire at No. 299 Devoe street williams
burg, to-day.
The dead are:
Henry Handle, thirty years old.
Annie BockneIl, twenty years old.
Arthur Craft, brother Of Annie
EocknelI,
The injured are:
LENA HANDLE. wife of Henry.
WILLIAM TERRY. nine wears old.
A score of other persons were rescued.
some of them after they had been over
come by smoke.
The building. a three-story frame,
was occupied on the ground floor by
Frank Marnot, n baker, his wife and
three children. Henry Handle, his wife,
Lena, and one child occupied half of the
second floor. Adjoining their apartments
were the apartments of William Terry,
who lived with his wife, five children
and his wife's mother, Mrs. MARI Gill
ilitIt. vi lie lnlIu IDOI lNtu JcIil EtN-
crman. his wife and three children and
adjoining him lived Arthur Bocknell, his
wife and three children.
OH Sprinkled on Stalrways.
The house, in the thickly populated
section of Williamsburg, is supposed to
lave been entered about 3 o'clock by the
t~ncendiary. He Is thought to have
sprinkled oil about the wooden stair
ways. set fire to the oil and made off.
The flames were discovered by Mrs
Gilmore, III had been awakened by the
illness of one of her grandchildren. The
old woman cried fire and made for the
stairway. only to find that all escape to
the street by the stairways had been
cut off. Her cries. however, aroused the
entire house. Marnot and his family es-
capped to the street from their apart
ments on the ground floor, but so fierce
ly were the flames burning that they
had to run through them.
pIved Head First from Shed.
The Terry family were assisted 20 NJ
extension he'd by the father, and there
they were in such q state of PAM as
the flames came closer and closer to
them that young William dived head
first from the shed. He landed on his
head n was carried away to st.
Catharine's Hospital unconscious.
There are fears that he has broken his
The other members Of the Terry
household We're carried to safety by
rescuers. Then came the Handles
into the Terrys' apartments to
the shed. Mrs. Handle had her
pressed to her breast, but her
husband. not seeing the child, broke
back into the flaming apartments,
thinking the child had been left to
and fell unconscious from
smoke. The flames quickly found his
unconscious body and he expired.
On the third floor Alderman guided
his wife and brood to the roof. Then
the Racklins. followed by their
Arrie and Arthur Rocknell, with their
children, escaped tE the fre-escapc
from their apartment. AS they loft
the house Annie thought of her
brother Arthur. who lived at No 81
Locust street, but who had spent the
night tn the Bockncll apartment. and
wis still asleep in his room. She
begged her husband 10 return to the
burning building n try to rescue the
young man. but tho husband refused
50 SHE rushed In herself. her husband
begging her not to 30. She made her
way to her brother and woke him hit
Il was to late for them to make theil
escape ard they were found by the
nromen later clasped IN each Others
as though they were trying to
shield one another from death.
Tries to Save Her Child.
Missing her husband whom she was
carried down by r~escuers. Mrs. Handle
broke away from the police and hremen
and made her way back into the smoke
nlled hallway. only to fall unconscious
She was rescued before II vas too late
10 save her life and taken away to the
hospital.
r. W 4 NJ TAJT