The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-03-15

whom she had carried to the window,
where he had fallen unconscious and
was roasting, she said. Bonner jump
ed through the window it SEEM
ed to those below that he was going
into a furnace. He found the little
boy just inside the window and car
ried him out.
Fireman Hannigan repeated Bon
ner's feat on the third floor, rescuing
Miss Fannie Ginsberg.
A~woman, her night dress blazing,
was seen to crawl out of a window
and start down the fire escape from
the top floor. The hot iron blistered
her feet and burnt deep into her
flesh, but she continued. The scaling
ladders were run up close to the es-
cape and a fireman had almost reach
ed her when a belch of flames covered
her like a wave and bore her down.
She fell back and died in sight of the
horror stricken crowd
Leaped After Her Child.
The position of those who had taken
refuge in the rubbish and choked fire
escapes became more and more des-
perate every minute. They feared To
jump and they could not wait until
the scaling ladders reached them so
intense was the heat Now and then
one would jump to the ground with a
scream. A baby was flung into the
arms of a policeman below by it's fear.
crazed mother. Just as the policeman
| caught tne child the mother diyed to
| the ground. Her body struck the DO
liceman on the head and he fell un
conscious. The woman escaped in
jury by the fall, but she had been bad
iy burned, the baby was unhurt.
Death was reaping a harvest on
other fire escapes on the building As
well as at this time At the rear two
men and two women were seen on
the escapes. Two women came first and
every step they made was blocked by
some can or box of rubbish. often toe
heavy for them TO lift The mer
would come to their assistance and
hurl the obstacle into the yard. The
| quartet were descending slowly he
tween the third and fourth floors when
| flames burst from the windows al
about them. The flames darted ur
| from the third floor windows. en-
veloped the two men and women and
they fell and were roasted to death
Their bodies were got down by the
| fireInen.
Through the smoke another figure
was seen on the fire escape on the
fifth floor. No one could tell whether
1t was a man or woman. The clothes
were afiame. In a moment the victim
sank on the escape and died.
On the top of the fire escape at the
other side of the house lay three
bodies, Mrs. Solomon and her two
sons, Isaac and Jacob. They had been
overcome there by the flames.
1 Two members of the Solomon fam
lily were seen to be looking from tho
windows and then fall back in the
burning building.
His Family All Gone.
The elder Solomon, the husband ant
father, was one of those rescued by
Patrolman Dawn. When he reached
] the ground his whiskers had beer
| burned OF, and he wore nothing bui
( undertaking. For more than enc
hour he had been wandering around
IN this condition searching for his fam
lily, when he came upon the bodie.
after they had been removed from the
fire escape. AS he recognized the
charred bodies he broke into pas
sionats weeping with agonized Grief Of
"Mein kinder, Mein kinder" His ex
peTience was paralleled by dozens o.
others in the house. After the fire
was under control the street was filler
with half-dressed, weeping people
| seeking for their relatives iunIorin q
the firemen and policemen to go into
| the burning building and rescue the
loved ones whom they believed perish
ing there Yet one man, whose family
! had been saved, bewailed the loss OF
some jewelry left in his apartment
and begged a fireman to save it for
| him.
The desperate resourcefulness OF
some mother in her effort to save the
lives of her children was SHOWN when