Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-03-15
FIRE and FATALITIES.
w York City Has a Terrible Ten
ement House Blaze.
SEVERAL PEOPLE DIE
Heroes Accomplished Some Wonder.
full Work In Rescuing Inmates
Despite Defective State Of
Fire Escapes.

Esrsons were burned 10 death and sew
erai - badly hurt they will die. while
az least forty others received slighter
hurts in a fire that practically destroy
I'd a five-story tenement house In Allen
street at an early hour to-day. The
fire had gained great Roadway before
it became known 10 most OF the ten
ants and many Of them were cut of
save themselves. Thrilling rescues and
daring leaps for ilfe marked the fre.
Scores were carried from the blazing
building Firemen climbed walls on
their scaling ladders and braved the
flames TO reach the impcriled tenants.
The following bodies were soon identi-
fed: Rachael Solomon. Jacob Solo
mon. Abraham Solomon. Jessie Cohen.
Rose weiner. Zanda Wiener Ida Mus
owitz. Harry Kaufman. Rose Miller and
Morris Miller.
The IRE started In the basement. oc-
cupied by Isaac Davis. his wife and
three children. Davis had been out
Monday night. and returning home ear
/ IS Tuesday morning went into his
store on the same floor, just In time
70 So a kerosene lamp In the rear ex-
plode. lie awoke his wife and both
tried 10 put out the flaming lamp. but
without success and then gave all
their attention 20 getting their chill
dren out Policemen who heard IN:
/ cry 0f fire rushed 20 the scene and
every EFFORT was made 20 arouse the
sleeping persons. IN the meantime the
flames spread with startling rapidity,
: and when the persons who had been
asleep on the upper fioors awoloe they
I found themselves confronted with
wall of flames on nearly every side.
/ Scenes OF the widest description fol-
/ lowed. Panic-stricken people rushed
90 the Ere escapes only 90 fnd them lit
tered with rubbish OF all descriptions
and most impossible. Down this mar
/ row passageway flowed a stream of
/ humanity on some of the escapes the
rubbish was 90 closely packed Il be-
came impossible 90 pass certain points.
and men. women and children stood
/ literally roasting 10 death as the flames
roared through the windows around
them one of 'he escapes. which end
3 "a near the roof shed about twenty feet
above the ground. had been manned by
/ Policeman John ]. Dwan. who had run
n plank across to window " the ad-
Joining building. Dozens of persons
had been carried across this narrow
bridge by the policeman when the
faem. began to sweep around the
lower end of the fire escape. Rushing
] into the FIRE. the policeman seized "A
1 little child and started on his last re-
turn trip across TO place Of safey lie
had made only half the distance when
the plank. burned more than half
| through. broke where Il rested on the
/ fire escape and re-cuer and rescued /
I fell TO the stone pavement twenty feet
below. Tho man struck fairly on his /
back. one of his shoulders being shat |
tered by the force OF the fall The /
child was uniuiured.
In the meantime firemen had run up /
ladders az other points around th- !
building and dozens Of people were
taken from the crowded fire escapes |
and upper windows. by this time the /
building was a furnace. Rescues were |
effected In many cases only after the /
greatest show Of bravery.
Lieutenant Bonner. a son of the
former chief. ascended the now red fire |
escapes five times. FouTStimes he came |
down with woman or children In his |
armys The nth time he was making |
for the street with an unconscious wom- /
an when his strength gave way. He |
staggered and would have fallen TO his |
death had not a comrade come TO his /
assistance. As Bonner reached fourth |
story win2lw In one OF his ascents he
dragged n little girl from a window. |
where she stood surrounded by flames
She pleaded with him TO leave her on
the escape and 20 In after her little /
brother. whom she carried 20 the win
dow. lie had fallen unconscious and /
was roasting. she said. Bonner jumped l
through the window. and IL seemed 10
those below as n he was going into
furnace. He found the little boy Just |
Inside the window and carried him out /
Fireman Banningan repeated Bon
ner's feat on the third floor. rescuing /
Miss Fannie Ginsberg. The young wom-
an was seen to reach a fire escape in
her night clothing. The hot iron blis-
tered her feet and burnt deep into her
ladders were run up close TO the escape
and the fireman almost reached her
when a belch OF flame covered here like
wave and bore her down. She fell I
back and died IN sight Of the horror
stricken crowd.
A baby was nung into the arms OF a
policeman below by a fear crazed moth
er. Just as the policeman caught the
child the mother dived. Her body struck
the policeman's head and he fell uncon-
sciOus The woman was terribly burn
ed. The baby was unhurt
Flames darted up from the third foor
windows and enveloped two men and /
two women They fell roasted to death.
After the fire was under control the
street was filled with frenzied people /
looking for relatives one mother
wrapped her little ones In bedclothes
and hurled them upon heap OF snow.
In one bundle. wrapped In several
blankets one little boy was found unin-
iared