New-York tribune., 1909-03-08
SLIPS TO DEATH AT FIRE
CHOOEEEEPEP FALLS
THREE STORIES.
Hung ON to UindozC Sill Until Heat
Broke His Grip-T5co Others
IRE Burned.

With a fire burning fercely in the parlol =.
his home on the third floor Of NO loo
1O1st street yesterday, Dennis
o,oonLoenar sat on a window sill, waiting ioI
the arrival of the f1remen with laduer' @A' "
flames gradually ate, their way to"aru tiie "
dow and the heat grew more 1ntehse' r'
edged further and further out the "'n'ioW-
Finally the heat became unbeaFapie'
grip on the window sill was broken
The man landed on his head on an IRON 1ei'ce
between the sidewalk and the stairs 'ead'hS "
the basement of the five story hath'use ia
which he lived Death almost instdnIail7-
Gus.
Redmond had been in the house only "a"
minutes, having returned from his saooh' o'
2Tth street and Eighth avenue, which ne an" I"
brother have owned for twenty years As lie
entered his apartment Redmond went hrst 10
the kitchen and greeted his wife, Mrs. May
Redmond. who was preparing his breakfast and
starting the Sunday dinner. After drinking
cup of coffee and eating a couple of rolls Red
mond went from the dI 1ing room TO ms pe"i'oin'
lust off the parIor. AS he passed through MS
son Johns room he awoke him and told him 10
get up. Then Redmond closed the door between
his bedroom and a little hallway. he had
STONED to buy couple of Sunday papers on
Columbus avenue before reaching MS EolAe' ei'u
the police and firemen think he lay on his bed TO
read the newspapers and that ne began 10
smoke Then the bed clothing and lace curtains
at a window close to the bed caught fire. The
fire started quickly and burned with great
rapidity.
In not more than five minutes after father
had awakened me and told me to get up, as he
passed through my room to go to his own room,
said his son John, 81 heard the cracking of fire
in his room. At the time I dressing myself
IN the dining 1 to fathers room and
bad fba In
my face, and I saw father trying To- pull the
mattress, which was blazing furousIy, off the
bedstead. ! grabbed hold of the box bed spring
from my side. and together father I1d tried TO
drag it TO the window. but by this time the
whole room ablaze. and we hal TO drop ihe
bed spring. Father was inside and the bed
spring blocked his way. leaving him surrounded
by the flames
Il ran back in the fiat and out of the door
leading from the dining room TO the outside
hallway. and then to the parlor door. which
had been broken in by Sergeant Clarkin who
lives next TO us. BY this time the fire was so
bad and the heat so intense that 1 couldn't get
into the parIor or fathers bedroom. The last
saw Of father when he sitting the
windowstil. with flames all around him. He
weighed about $50 pounds"
Mrs Redmond and her four year-old daughter.
Louise. who were in the fiat when the fire start
Cd escaped down the stairs of the building.
Sergeant CiarlIin and young John Redmond
were both badly burned trying to rescue Red
mond Sergeant Clarkin had both of his hands
severely burned and his hair singed. He was
attended by DR.. Charlton of J. Hood Wright
Hospital
Considerable delay in the arrival of the fire
men caused by the citizen who turned in
the alarm running all the way to a box at Am
sterdam avenue and 1O4th street. instead of to
one at 99th street and Amsterdam avenue
AS Battalion Chief Joseph Crawley of the 11th
Battalion. stationed in Engine House IS. in West
1929 street turned into f01st street his driver.
Fireman Morris McEIligott of No. 156 West
1O1st street, next door 10 the fire, on seeing
where the fire was. fairly leaped on TO the horses
back in urging the animal on. McElligott's fiat.
on the fourth floor. was Of those in the line
of the fire. which spread with rapidity up the
narrow airshaft back of Redmond's bedroom
The firemans wife and three children, all young,
were in the fat.
The damage was estimated al $4,000.