The evening world., 1905-10-05
INCENDIARY
fire KILLS 3,
INJURIES 7
Blaze 10 Flat-H House Burns
Children to Death and
Inperils Tenants.
MANY HEROIC RESCUEs.
Baby Barn as the Mother Is Car.
ried Out from Blazing
Building.

Three children burned to death, their
parents rescued and taken In a dying
condition to St. Msry's Hospital, five
other tenants sent to hospitals suffering
from burns. two fremen hurt. the birth
OF a baby boy while Its mother was be
sins carried from a burning building, and
an accident that wrecked Chief Cookers
automobile and nearly cost the Chief
mis- life-these are the exciting and dis.
tressing Incidents that followed the Wis.
Il Of an ~inoendlary to the four-story
nat-house at No. $50 Reid avenue,
Brooklyn, before daybreak to-day.
The list Of dead are:
DoNNELLY. CHARLES, nged nins
! years.
DoNNELLY. ROBERT, aged i've
years.
DoNNELLY. KATHERINE. aged
twelve years,
That every member OF the six families
Occupying the ~iat-house at No. $50 Reid
avenue was not s~uffocated and burned
% death Is due to the fact that Fireman
William Tear. a member OF Engine
Company No. III, OF Manhattan. ana
Fireman James G. Nugent, OF the Are
boat David A. Body. happened to be
on duty last night and near their homes
IN Reid avenue. They saw flames and
smoke burst frrm the top floor Of the
building at No. ESQ, across the street.
skim ming up the escape ladders, the,
went from do2r to floor. arouslng tho
sleeping tenants.
The flames had ~mushroomed out
against the roof and penetrated the two
top-hoor apartments. occupied by Jerc-
mlah Donuelly and Joseph Hainleln.
As Teaz reached the bottom ladder
with Mrs. HainIeln in his arms, she lad
der broke and bott fell to the around.
the woman on top OF the fireman. in
jurlng him severely. Regardless of his
hurts, the fireman, in response to the
frantic mothers cries. lifted himself to
the hre-escape by means OF The broken
ladder to go back after the woman's
babe. II vas unconscious when he
brought 81 down In his arm.
Then Teaz n Nugent went back 10
Donnehy's apartment. The mace wa,
fame-swept, but they dashed in and
stumbled over the bodies Of Mr.. and
Mrs, Donpelly. who had fallen before
they reached the window The uncon-
scious man and woman we're dragged
out and down the escapes.
An the tenants OF Nos. $50 and 2si
were routed out Of bed and escaped in
tieir nightclothes. Mrs. Rose Moses,
who lived In the second moor Of No.
2s2. was unable to leave her bed, Two
hremen lifted her tenderly in their
arms and carried her out and placed
her ln'a bed at No. e55, across the street,
where her baby boy was born. an am
bulsnce surgeon in attendance.
crokers Narrow Escape.
That Chief Croker and his chauffeur,
Capt Bush, were moi included in the
list OF fatally injured is remarkable.
He hurried TO the fire on the third
alarm, and while running at top speed
through Reid avenue his macbine ran
into an obstruction In the street, neal
Lafaye cite avenue.
The automobile was thrown high In
the air and completely overturned. The
high speed alone saved the chief and his
companion, for they were hurled clear
OF the machine and landed fully hfteen
feet away from It. Chief Croker Was
badly shaken up and mis- chin severely
laceraied, but he insisted on going to
the FIRE. ten blocks away, Ia a trolley
car.
The flames were subdued after an
hours fight, and then nremen went TO
the top floor Of No. $50 and carried out
the charrsd remains Of the three Don.
nelly children. They had been suro-
Gated IN bed and were dead without
doubt before the flames reached them