The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-06-15
Fatal FIRE in
A BIG TENEMENT
Four Persons Are Known To Have
PeriShed.
SEVERAL BRAVE FIREMEN SUFFER.
The Building, In Which Two Hundred Per
sons Are Said to Have Lived, Was Quick
Iy developed In Flames, and Many Thrilling
Rescues Were WOman's Desperate
Efforts to Save Her Baby.

New York (SpeciaD -Four persons
were Killed and two severely injured in
a daylight fire that swept big tenement
at 200 East Ninety-seventh Street. Death
and destruction were worked in scant 20
minutes, and the firemen had the flames
conquered almost as soon as they could
stretch their hose.
The blaze started in the apartment OF
Angelo Pallidino, real estate dealer,
who lives on the first floor Pallidlno,
according to the story that he later told
the police, deals in bric-a-brac, as well
as in land, and his roms were stuffed
with goods of the most infiammable
sort. The doors and windows OF the
upper floors and the scuttle leading to
the roof were open, and the flames shot
with frightful rapidity to the fifth and
top story.
As three policemen, who had gone
through the house, leaned over the air.
shaft between the two tenements they
heard cry for help, and saw woman
leaning from a window on the third floor
of the burning building and attempting
apparently to throw something across
the airshaft to the window ON the other
side. Calling to the woman to hold out
one more minute, the policemen hurried
to the third floor and prepared to make
a rescue across the shaft. 1t was wee
baby boy about IS months old that the
woman held in her arms, and she held
it out with so much appeal in her face
that the policemen stopped trying to
form their bridge across the chasm, and
Sackett, held by his companions, swung
over the window sill i'll an attempt to
rescue the child. Just as he held UP
his arms gust of smoke and fame
burst fran the window in which the
woman was standing. As she reeled
back unconscious he child slipped from
her grasp and fell to the bottom of the
airshaft, three stories below.
Meanwhile the hremen had answered
the alarm, and Vincent Cahill, of truck
81, had swarIned up the fire-escape in
answer to the cries of the crowd that
there were still several people in the
burning building. A burst of smoke
and fame struck Cahill full in the face
as he leaped forward to enter the win
dow. He lost consciousness and fell
to the pavement. His skull was frac-
tured and an arm and leg were broken.
James Laughter, of engine "a, was struck
by the same blast of fame while climb
ing ladder and he turnbled into the
street He had several ribs fractured
and was injured internally. Both men
were hurried to the Harlem Hospital.
AS soon as the streams had swept the
flames from the starways the fremen
made their way to the various floors
On the third floor was found the woman
who had been overcome with smoke
while attempting to save her child. She
was badly disfgured and none of the
excited tenents could identify her. On
the fourth floor, near the stairway, were
found the bodies of two little girls about
three years old. They, too, were badly
scorched by the flames, and no one
could say who they were. 1t seemed
strange at first that no one could be
found to identity the dead, but when
Coroner Hamburger, who arrived early
at the fire, started an investigation that
brought out the fact that over 200 per-
sons had lived in the hve-story tenement,
it did not seem so strange that some of
them should have been strangers or that
a baby or two should have been over
looked in hurried flight.