The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-09
FIVE DEAD In TENEMENT FIRE.
MOTHER AND CHILDREN OVER
COME by SMOKE ON STAIRS.

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Hairhrezdth Escapes IN Dsynsht blaze
IN East side Boekcry-Koung Girls
Carried O msensiDie ny F1rcmen-
DOR Pcdlcr's Tragic Homecoming.
A mother and four Of her children lost
their lives in q fire which swept through
the crowded tenement house at 800 Madi-
o street yesterday afternoon. Had IL
not been for the quick work Of. the dremen
in getting ladders to the windows many
more might have persisted.
The dead was Mrs. Mary Gins
pan, a Jewess. IS years old. born In
Russia. Her children, whose charred
bodies we're found near hers In the front
hall Of the second floor, were Martel, a girl,
aged o; Lizzie. Z years old; Sarah, aged o,
and Samuel. an infant Of 0 months. The
woman's husband. Moritz Ginspan, Ia a
pedler. He was walking the streets at the
time of the fire and did not o OF the
catastrophe until late last evening. when he
returned to the house and found 1t dark
and dripping with water. He was crazed
with grief when he Identified his wife and
chi dren. He has four children survi, ing.
About 4:SO o'clock yesterday afternoon q
girl broke into the rooms on the third floor
front Of the house at 500 Madison street and
screamed -Firei' Mrs. Louis Benowitz,
wife OF one Of the lessees OF the building,
and her two children. Esther n Morris,
were there. Esther ran to tho hall door
and opened It. Thick. sitting smoke
poured through from the hallway and stairs.
Mrs. Benowits gathered her children into
her arms and went out on the FIRE escape,
while the girl who had given warning ran
down the stairs and into the street Shrek
ing the alarm.
While some OF the firemen hurried the
ladders up to the upper windows others
wrapped their coats about their faces and
PLUNGED up the smoke filed .stalrways.
Fireman James T. Daniels OF Hook and
Ladder Truck . reached the second floor
hallway by way Of the stairs and stumbled
over a girl, Silver Kaem. There were other
bodies lying there at the side Of the stairs,
but the girls was the only one that seemed
to have life in it Daniels fought his way
down through the smoke with Silver kaein's
body in his arms. A Gouverneur Hospital
ambulance surg con soon restored the girl
TO consciousness.
when Daniels and others went back to
bring out the other bodies in the ball way
they found that the flames had reached
that point and they were unable TO go higher
than half way up the staircase. After the
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hose, they went to the spot and there found
the charred bodies Of Mrs. Glnspan and her
children. All Of them had probably been
overcome with smoke in trying to come
own the stairs from their rooms on the
floor above. They nay have been dead
when Daniels first stumbled over their
bodies n brought away the body Of the
girl, h was still breathing.
Fireman Blush. driver for Chief Hayes,
brought Rebecoa R~andsburg out of the
fame and smoke on the third floor. Fire
mar Dixon went up the ladder TO the third
floor when 1t was thought that all in the
building had heen rescued, and after he
had bee swallowed in smoke for many
minutes he appeared or the fire escape
landing with a girl hanging unconscious
on his arm. She was Beckie Ginsburg and
she was so overcome by smoke that she had
TO be sent to Gouverneur Hospital, where
she was revived after some effort.
Beckie Ginsburg, who had to be taken
to the hospital. and her brother Jacob,
neither OF them yet II years old, are the
sole survivors OF a family Of sever A
little over a year & in the great tenement
fire at los Allen street their mother, father,
two brothers and a sister were caught in
their beds and burned to death Since they
were orphaned the boy and girl are said
TO rave been living wherever they could find
cheap lodgings and working in sweatshops.
Max Sch efer, owner OF the building,
was arrested last night and. locked up in
the Delsncey Street police station. The
police say that Schl efer was holding a
olndle for some painters at work and that
the candle started the tire,