The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
STOPS FIRE HORSES MAD RUN
CAPT. Marks LEAPS TO ENGINE;
THEN TO RJNiUiI'S mack.

No Time Ia lie n Hero, lie Races TO Tene-
ment DaYc and Then to Another Fire
Grew Thrown or Engine when HE
GraJs started - Driver Is Crushed
Down Scholes street, Williamsburg, yes
terday afternoon on its way 10 burning
tenement ia Cook street went Engine
ii6. jim Leonard driving the big, young
grays Of the engine. Capt Marks OF
the Schoes street station and Engineer
Wolf with him. In front numbered the
truck wagon OF Engine Company 1877, going
- slowly that Loonards racing team was
upon It before the corner Of Manhattan
avenue was reached
The grays were straining at the lines
until the leather was cutting into Leonard =
wrists He saw there was no stopping
them in time to avoid crashing into the
truck. As truck and engine whirled around
the corner, Leonard made try at passing
on the righthand side He threw his
weight against the right line and the team
ewerved so sharply that the engine Crchei
like Il ship in a heavy sea, That lurch
and the yelling Of hundreds Of excited
persons in Manhattan avenue who thought
the engine was going over. scared the
young horses out OF an control
They plunged toward the sidewalk and
then. with a jerk and unge that snapped
the strap which bound Leonard to the
drivers seat and tore the loops of the reips
from hs cut hands. they dragged him
forward headlong over the front of the
engine into the street They ran away out
Manhattan avenue, Marks and Wolf were
snapped oil as Leonard fell
Marks picked himself up with the breath
Jared out of him and his clothes in rags.
As the engine tender turned the corner
Marks swung on TO it. Wolf stayed behind
TO look after Leonard. Two wheels of the
engine had passed over his body. He
was lying scnseless IN the street
Lam those horses, yelled Marks 10
James Mathcwson. the driver of the tender.
you've got to catch that team before they
xiii somebody Let en- out ana drive
like the devil was after you"
Two blocks ahead the big grays were
swinging into their stride, the engine reel
ing and jumping, sparks whirIinc out OF its
smokestack, a long line of black smoke
trailing after. Wagons lodged toward
the curbs their drivers white and uuncrvei
AT the close call Pushcarts, deserted "
terror stricken vendors. were smashed and
their burdens of odds and ends scattered.
Ahead of the runaways as far az one could
SEQ people were scurrying to doorways,
with here and there a policeman shooting
Them like chickens. No policeman dared
to grab for the brides. 1t would have
been sure death,
Mathewson's horses were staid. sober
old Fellows. but they awoke TO the spirit
OF the race Foot by foot they ate mp the
distance between them and the recling
engine. Eight blocks the ruCa lasted but
at Meseroie street the old horses of the
tender were neck and neck with the crazy
Young grays.
Capt Marks, who had climbed to the
drivers seat on the lender watched his
chance and jumped. Re landed in heap
On the seat OF the engine The reins were
dragging over tho horses rumps Marks
loaned forward and caught them up He
- a short man. but rs strong az an OK
Every ounce. of strength he bad he put
into his arms, trying to see-saw the team
20 a stop.
He couldn't do it. and he took long
chance lie leaped on to the back of the
oil horse stSadied himself and yanked ia
mouth until the bit cut il. Then he grippad
,ts nostril until it couldn't breathe and took
aI the run out Of 1t. With tho of horse
conquered the rest was easy. When he
climbed of the engine his uniform vas in
strips. His face was plastered with mud
and bleeding His hands were cut and
burned from the friction Of the lines.
Several hundred persons wanted to make
hero of him He was too busy There
was a fire to be looked after lie went on
20 that as fast as he could drive.
Four tenement houses at 200 10 22S Cook
street were ablaze Tho flames burst out
20 suddenly that the forty families that
lived in them had Just time to grab what
they could and dash through the smoke
filed halls into the street A. il was three
women and nine children We're cut of.
They we're on the upper floors and the flames
drove thom TO the roof. When Engine 1877
got there they were screaming for help.
The fire had started in the celiar and had
gone upward through the halls
The firemen got ladders % the front win
dows and made their way to the roof In
jiffy they had the women and children
into the street safe and sound. Those res
cued were Mrs. Mary Elenzer. Mrs. knte
Salad and Mrs. Mary Smith and the nine
children.
Fireman Sylvester SchneFdeoler Of 1877
STAYED behind on the roof of go TO -ec If
anybody else was there Nobody Knows
how it happened. but he fen through an air
shaft four stories to the collar The gusts
of smoke blinded him probably and he
walked straight into the hole. His com
rades picked him up. He was taken TO tho
German Hospital He IS hurt internally.
Not bone was broken.
II took two hours 10 whip the fire. and II
hadn't been ont five minutes when another
blazing tenemsnt sent the tired men TO "a
and 90 Varet street only three blocks away.
The occupants Of the two upper floors IN
the four story building there we're unable
to escape. Policeman John !. Dalton went
through the SMOKE with two firemen and
got Mrs Annie Borcnhach and her two
small children into the street, Mrs Rose
Weinstein, with her day-oid baby. was
carried by tho firemen out Of rear room
Dora Rosenberg jumped from a third story
window before help coulG reach her She
received internal injuries and was taken
10 st Catharine's hospital and then 10 the
home of relative The firemen got the
rest Of the occupants ont with little trouble.
although all were wild with panic
Driver Jim Leonard was first taken TO
St. Cathanne'S from the spot al which he
had been run over by his engine and then
TO bis home, 1879 South Second street His
injuries are internal the doctors say. and
his chance of recovery is small