The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-21
THREE DEAD IN
BLAZE K|NDLED
BY A F|REBUG
Oil Poured in Hall of Crowded
Tenement on the East
Side.
MOTHER AND BABES DIE.
Heroine Saves Five Children
and Eighteen Families
Are Rescued.
MOTHER AND BABES DIE.

the basement OF big ive-story tene-
ment-house. occupied by eighteen poor
families and lighted a puddle of kero-
sene he had poured on the floor.
A number OF other persons were
burned and injured by falling from
windows and Horoscopes. and the death
list would have been heavy had It not
been for several muscular policemen
who caught children as they were hurled
from windows by their frantic mothers.
The Dead.
Mrs YETTA MOSKoWITZ. twenty
I'VE, who lived on the third floor with
her husband. two children and a
boarder.
MORRIS MosKowITZ. thirteen
weeks old. son OF Yetta.
The boarder. known only as LOUIS.
The Injured.
LOUIS MOSkOwITZ. husband of the
dead woman; smoke and burns.
NATHAN MOSKow1Tz. four. SON
smoke.
RACHEL GOODWIN. thirty-two;
smoke and shock.
FRANK CURRY. policeman: cut by
falling glass.
Mrs. YETTA KRAuSS. si1ty-fve: in
ternal injuries from jumping and burns
about head. face and body.
Half a dozen children were bruised
and cut by being dropped from fire
escapes or windows. and that number of
men and women we're also injured In the
20 tot h,,t cd
ment by ambulance surgeons.
The tenement Is owned by George
Glazer. a tailor at Fifth avenue and
Twenty-seventh street. Glazer recently
sold the house to a syndicate o; buyers.
but payments were not made promptly
and he foreclosed the mortgage a few
days ago This is said to have caused
bitter feeling on the part OF ce-' odn In
terested persons.
The Are wa. kndled directly under
the airshaft. and before 1t was discov-
cred had eaten through the lower nall
way and mounted the stair we'll to the
roof. cutting of all possible escape OF
tenants on any OF the upper floor. ex
cept by the nre-escapes and roof.
Policeman Curry and Sergeant Fogar-
ty.. OF the Fifth street station. were a.:
First avenue and Third stree, when a
man came rushing up to them and
cried:
The tensmen. house down ., ~. s.
u burning
Police to tho Rescue.
The policemen ssnt tho man to engine
house No. %. next door TO the Fifth
street station. ana ran 10 the tenement
whore they were Joined by Policeman
Nsstor. Entrance TO the house was i'm
possible. This hallway was like q fur
mace.
Policeman Connolly came running up
and with sergt. Fogarty wont through
the house at No. s3 ana climbed along
the cornice to the hre-escape on the
blazing building. The escape was al
ready sorgsd with families. The men
In their fright were beating back the
women and getting to the street, but
ths hard fists OF the policemen drove
them to their places above. The two
policeman on the escape then began
picking up the children and tossing
them to tho two policemen on the street
Women appeared at the windows on
the upper floors and those who had
children dropped them to the policemen
on the escape. These in turn dropped
than to the men on the street.
When the first engine arrived the ss-
oapes front and rear were hot as grid.
tbs iron ladders
Mother and Babe Perish.
rhs Moskowi;s family. on the third
floor. was awakened by tho cry of
''TIrs" Ths husband and father took
the four-year-old son In his arms and
called for his wife and the boarder,
Louis. to follow. Mrs, Moskowitz car
ried the baby, 5hs thought she was
following the husband when she started
for the roof behind the boarder. Mos
kowitz with his oldest son got to the
street down the front fire-escape before
he missed his wife and baby. Then he
began to yell.
A fireman ran up the escape and cana
upon the bodies of the mother and baby
In the upper hallway. The mother lay
across the infant and was horribly
burned, shs evidently had tried 10 save
ths child's life at the sacrifice of her
swn, On the stairway was the body of
the boardsr.
Mrs. Yetta KrauSs, the mother OF
three sons and two daughters, proved
herself a heroine. The Krausses were
on the second floor and found escape
out on by the hall and tina fire-escapes
3ammsd with their neighbors. AIRS.
Hrauss cut a clothes line and tied It
about her youngest son. she lowered
him to the ground. and thon she low
srsd all her sons and daughters In the
same way. BY this time the flames
we're all about her Her night dress
was blazing, and in a frantic effort to
save her life she plunged TO the street.
She was unconscious when picked up,
hut hsr children had not received 80
much as a scratch.
Ladder Broke Under Them.
Mrs. Rachel Goodwin was about 10
lap from the fires escape when a fire.
man grabbed her in mis- arms and car
sled her 10 the street There she began
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