The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21
Fire Panic That Threatened
Tragic Consequences
EARLY Today.
HEROIC RESCUES MADE
Triangle OF Buildings Near Lacka-
wanna Railroad Station the
Scene of Some Remarkable
Police Work. Women and
Children in Streets.

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-Over forty
Italian inc Polish families were madt
homeless early today by a fire, which
broke out in Botjer's Iron Works, or
Newark street, Hoboken, and spread
rapidly to several adjoining tenement
houses. Many persons had barely time
to escape in their night clothes. The
loss was $4,000.
Nearly a score of buildings were
wiped u by the fire, which swept over
the triangle bounded by Grand, Ferry
and Newark streets. sending more than
one thousand persons homeless into the
streets, n hundred of whom, mostly
women and children. were driven out OF
their houses without any clothing
whatsoever into the streets. These were
huddled into police patrol wagons and
carried to headquarters, where they
were given hot coffee and then went to
sleep on the floor on horse blankets
Remarkable escapes were made. In
the four hours that the flames ragged
not a person was injured. The nearest
there came to being a case for the half
dozen physicians who watched the
progress of the blaze was when Her
man Galenkamp, who, in trying to get
over a fence back of a burning stable,
fell between the fence and the stable
and was stuck there until tiremen, at
tracted by his cries, cut the fence down
and liberated him. His only hurts were
some slight cuts and bruises.
The fire was first seen in the rear of
the three-story building, 344 Ferry
street, occupied by Otto Kabin as a
hotel. Kabin and his wife, warned by
PO1iPnnOan CorHYoyy rot1SaI tho roopaorc
mostly men, and all got out in safety.
By the time the building was cleared
the flames had spread to the structures
$40 and S42 Ferry street, and when the
fire companies arrived the three struc-
lures were blazing f~uriously.
Sparks filled the air and tongues Of
flames stretched out to the four-story
tenements on Newark street, nearly all
of which were frame, and in all of
which many families lived.
Fire Chief Dunn sent his men and a
number of policemen into the tene-
ments to warn the occupants, many of
whom were yet asleep, to get out.
So terrified were the people in the
houses that many of them did not stop
to put on clothing. but ran into the
streets jugA as they had leaped from
their beds When they reached the
street the police had to pursue then
and huddle Them together in small par
ties until they We're loaded into the
patrol wagons.
Before the last person was out of the
tenement 377 Newark street, the flames
had swept over and ignited the roof.
The firemen were unable to get enough
hose to protect the wooden structure,
and east and west the flames spread,
taking one tenement after another,
starting at the top and going to the
bottom.
The paint shop of Leuttech Bros, in
the midst of the tenements, made il
impossible for the firemen to stop the
progress of the flames.
All the Hoboken companies We're
called out, and several from Jersey City
responded to an emergency call which
was sent when the flames seemed about
to leap over a narrow canal that sepa'
rates the triangle from the new station
Of the Delaware, Lackawanna anc
Western Railroad Company and enguli
that series of buildings.
The railroad fire company and its fire
boat, which ran up the canal anc
poured thousands Of gallons of waite
from the river into the burning build
ings, prevented the spread of th'
flames to the railroad company's prop
erty.
Confusion was caused by twenty
horses, which were liberated from thu
stable of Alexander Robb, running owe
the hose and among the firemen, man!
of whom narrowly escaped bein.
knocked down by the frightened ami
mails.