The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-03-17
FATAL FIRE IN
A tenement HOUSE
Indescribable Horror of HoIo-
caust in Five Story Build
ing in New York.
NAN HEROIC REscuEs
Both Firemen and Police Do vaIian
Work in Getting the Inmates
Out of the Burning
Building.

new 10TH, NN1Icl lb.-.AL least
hoore persons burned to death. aud sew
eral were so badly hurt that they ma,
die. and forty others received slighte.
hurts. in a fire that practically de
stroyed a lve-story tenement house il
Allen street early today.
Awful Headway of Fire.
The fire gained such Roadway hi
many tenants We're cut off before they
could make any attempt TO save them.
selves. Thrilling rescues and daring
leaps for life marked the fire. Scores
Were carried from the blazing building
by the ffremen. OF the bodies recovered
only the following are identified:
RACHEL SOLOMON. 45.
JACOB SOLOMON. 10.
ABRAHAM SOLOMON. 20.
JESSIE COHEN, Is.
ROSE WIENER. %.
SANDER WIENER. A.
IDA MUSkOWITZ. 10.
HARRY KAUFMAN, 10.
ROSE MILLER. 4.
MORRIS MILLER. infant.
Crowded Fire Escapes Fatal.
The crowded fire escapes in the rear
of the tenement We're largely respon-
sible for so many casualties. The fire
started in the basement occupied by
Isaac Davis, his wife and three chill
dren. Davis had been out last light,
and returning home early this morning.
went into the store on the same floor
just i'm time TO see IA Kerosene lamp in
the rear explode.
He awoke mis- wife and both tried to
putfout the flaming lamp. but without
success; then they gave all their atten-
ton to getting their children out of the
building. A policeman who heard the
cry of alarm rushed to the scene and
every effort was made to rouse the
sleeping persons In the house.
Fighting for Life.
In the meantime the flames hao.
spread with startling rapidity. and
when the persons who had been asleep
on the upper floors awoke they found
themselves confronted by a wall of
flames on nearly every side.
Scenes of the widest description fol-
lowed, with panic stricken people
fighting for their lives. They rushed
to the fire escapes. only to find them
Uttered with rubbish of all descriptions,
and almost impossible. Down through
this cluttered, narrow
flowed the stream of humanity.
On some cap the rubbish was so
closely packed tina 1t became impos-
sible to pass certain points, and men,
women and children stood and liter
ally roasted to death, as the flames
roared through the windows around
them.
One Heroic Rescue.
One OF the escapes, which ended near
the roof of a she'd about twenty feet
above the ground. had been manned
by Policeman John j. Dwan, who had
run a plank across to a window of AN
adjoining building. Nearly a dozen
persons had been carried across this
narrow bridge by the policeman when
the flames began to sweep around the
lower fire escape. Rushing into the
II t1,n nn1i.or,a,, .caioaI 4. ;t+1- -, :,
and started on the last return trts
across to a place of safety. He Mad
made only half the distance when the
plank burned more than half through.
broke and the rescuer and rescued fell
to the ground twenty fet below. The
p~oliceman's shoulder was shattered by
the fall. The child was u%ninjured.
Many More Rescued.
In the meantime the fremen had run
buildings, and dozens of people We're
being taken from the crowded fire es-
p and upper windows.
BY this time the building was a fur
mace, and rescues We're affected in
many cases only after the greatest
show of bravery on the part of the
firemen.
Rescued Five from Death.
14ieutenent Bonner, son of a former
IRE chief, assembled the now red hot fire
escapes five times and four times he
came down with a woman or child in
his arms. The fifth time he was maxi
ing for the street with an unconscious
woman when his strength gave away.
He staggered and would have fallen
mad not a comrade come to his assis-
lance. There We're many other simila,
heroic rescues.
Some Awful Negligence.
Inc victims of the disaster We're typi-