The evening world., 1908-02-27
-Four Persons Burned and
Twelve Otherwise Hurt
While Escaping.
MANY BRAVE RESCUERS.
Firemen on Scaling Ladders
Garry Frantic East Siders
to Safety.

Four persons were badly burned.
twelve others injured and fifty rescued
from a blazing tenement house at No.
A. First street to-day. when fire. be-
ieved to be incendiary, started in the
hallway and climbed up through the
stair well to the roof. The seriously in
tured taken to Bellevue are:
Cologera Barberette, nifty years Old,
burned about the body. face and head
Condition critical
Lena Barbere;te nineteen, daughter
OF Colosera, burned about the body
VIII die.
Frank Barberette. twenty-slx. burned
about the body.
Peter Barberette, twenty. burnei
about body and head.
Fred Fredericks, OF No. 10 Second
street, was passing the tenement
hve-story structure, in which lived more
than 800 persons. about O'Clock when
he saw flames in the hallway. lie sent
in an alarm and ran back to the tene-
ment yelling.
The fire had startel in the hallway on
the third floor, and the tenants on tho
hrst and second doors cot To the streets
with emoers falling on them as they
ran. Escape by the stairs vas cut of
above the second floor and when the
sleeping tenants heard tae cries of i-g
and ran to the hall they We're Griyen
back by flames. Then there was mad
rush for the fire escapes.
Engine No 80 in charge of Capt.
Hughes. which is located ia Great Jones
street, and which IS called the crack
tre-hghter Of the department. was the
first to get TO the fire. by this time
the front and rear escapes were filed
many OF the men lighting back the
women and children in the effort to
save them selves. Then came Engine
Company. No. -. Capt. O'Connor.
With scaling ladders three aremen.
Ayers. Hoffman and Boltz. went up The
burning tenement walls like flies and
began disentangins the lighting.
screaming and half mad mon and wpm-
en-. More than one man who was play
irg the coward was felled by fireman
hard fist
Young F'redericks. who had climbed
TO the escape on the first floor. also
had his hands fun saving lives and
fighting back the men. Firemen on the
escapes dDpNt lltllItu ~ L fItutllthS d
score OF children. ami he carefully
dropped them into the arms of police
men AMI fremen. Policeman Joseph
O'Brien. OF the Fifth street station. had
climbed up to help Tredericks, when
lot OF bedding. which some tenant was
bent on saving came down on his head
O'Brien was carried to the street and
his right leg 50 badly hurt he had to be
taken home.
The tiremen had the greatest difficulty
In clearing the escapes. Every landing
was fun OF household effects, which
heir owners seemed to prize almost
as highly as they lid their lives or the
lives of their children.
Threw Baby and Jumped.
IN the rear the same difficulty was
being experienced. Victor Cir.Longo.
his brother, Albert and Alexandra
Ciralongo We're caught on the top es-
cape by these crowded landings, and ali
were severely burned before the hremen
could make way for them TO get 10 the
ground.
Mrs. Annie Mastrungo also found it
impossible to climb past trunks and
boxes. She carried in her arms Charles
- Arco, nNe wears old, and when she
saw she could go no further called to
Fireman Post.
Here. catch this"' and the next in |
stant had tossed the child from The lad |
der Post caught the boy and handed |
him over TO another fireman just as tue |
woman jumped. The woman was heavy. |
and had made thirty foot leap, but
the fireman broke her fall, and she WIS |
not badly hurt.
Four Were Cut on.
The house was thought to have been
cleared when one or the firemep saw
Barberette. his two sons and daughter
on the top floor. Their clothes and hair |
had been burned Off. and the father and |
sons were supporting the girl who was
unconscious. Ladders were quickly |
raised and the four were brought to the
street and taken over to a restaurant, |
where they were treated by Drs. Nc |
Nabb, Wall and Clark from Bellevue
AaSpitl. Later they We're taken TO
she hospital.
On the theory that the fire was OF |
lncendiary origin the Fire Marshal and |
police have begun an investigation.