New-York tribune., 1907-07-29
PERISH TN TENEMENT
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plOSlOH Inc grocery store even Jlltll Was IlItb
with flame and no alarm had yet been sent IN.
He raised his voice in the terrible alarm which
freezes every East Side heart with fear, and
dashed for the corner of Stanton and Forsythe
streets. Here he found patroman, who sent
in the alarm.
Sergeant Hackett. Of the Eldridge street sta
ton. led six patrolmen to the scene as soon as
he found the fire in tenement house.
Such blaze at such d house always means dan
ger and usually fatalities. The police went up
through the rooms. awakening the tenants, until
their escape by the stairways was cut off, Then
| they made their way to the fire escapes and
came down that way, doing more good work at
waking up the inmates
DR. Kearns, OF Bellevue Hospital found Il
man, frightfuily burned, staggering along Ave
nue. B at Sd street. This point is fully quar-
ter of a mile from the scene of the fire. Yet this
man, who is a foreigner and was unable to talk
coherently, must have walked from the fire to
the place where ne found. He was suffer
ing eXcruciating pain. a few minutes before
| he was SEEN a hurry call sent to the hospi-
tai for medical treatment. In some ineXplicable
manner he evidently got away from the fire,
and, Crazed with pain, wandered off.
GREwsOME SCENES AFTER FIRE.
Deputy Chief Binns said at 80 this morning
that the fire was practically out. AT that time
fremen and policemen were going through the
building hunting for the charred bodies of those
who had been burned to death. 1t was ghasty
| sight to see the black charred bodies dragged
| ont TO a window and lowered by ropes to the
ground. The thing that had been a human
body few hours before was now utterly. un-
recognizable, a ghastly sight. Pody after body
was lowered to the inner courtyard in this way.
outside thousands of persons watched the
fremen. The cries of hysterical women rose
high above the noise of the crowd. Women
prayed and begged to be allowed to pass
through the fire lines Others tried to rush by
the guards. and force had to be used to prevent
them.
AS each charred body was lowered a wall
arose Men and women who had relatives or
friends in the building made desperate efforts to
find out who the killed and injured were The
| foreigners We're especially hysterical and the
police had much trouble in preserving order
among them.
An old fireman standing in the crowd Of on
| lockers exclaimed: My Cod My God This is
awful. I have never seen anything more terrible
| in all my life The poor devils! Look at that
crowd Those women don't know whether their
husbands charred Corpses or whether they
Will find them safely. 1t must be frightful for
! them-ths uncertainty"
The grocery store was kept by James Ackerly,
who lives above his place with his family.
! Brandt had hardly done the little he could be-
fore the flames had gathered great headway. He
tried to get up the stairways. but was unable to
! proceed
| From the upper floors Of the building came the
shouts and screams Of the men and women who
had awakened to find that they were surrounded
| by flames and that their way Of escape had been
! cut off
Accompanied by Detective Connors. Of tho
EIdridge street station, Captain Johnston, after
| making his rescue on the roof. ran 10 the top
floor Of No. 224. There was small ledge just
! below 4 window, and on this tho captain took
| his stand. with Counors behind him. holding