The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-01-06
PANIC is
FEATURE
Suffering and Distress
Take Place and Pande-
monium Reigned.

Indiana Harbor, Jan. Slight
families were rendered homeless,
one man was painfully burned and
about $4,000 damage done by a fire
which partially destroyed the
three-story building owned by Tom
Yanow at 2101 One Hundred ard
Thirty-seventh street, yesterday.
The injured man was Police Ofncer
John Mariner. whose face was severely
biistered when he attempted to enter
room on the third floor of the build
ing. The flames and smoke burst
through the door as he opened 1t, and
he was almost overcome. but he man
aged to get out of the building with
out losing consciousness, and his
burns were later dressed in a nearby
drugstore.
PANIC ENSUEs.
During the progress Of the fire pan
demonium reigned Seven families oc-
cupy the two upper floors of the build
ing and they fought each other and
practically wrecked the interior of the
sNo stories IN VII ~ they. uyed. in their
frantic efforts to save thems elves and
their household effects.
In their mad haste they smashed
down doors and windows, broke the
plastering and even tore down par
titfons, and they seriously hampered
the firemen in their efforts to put out
the fire. Most of the occupants of the
little flats inc which the upper stories
were divided. have children and these
rushed wildly hither and thither, or
stood wringing their hands and cry
ing at the tops OF their voices, while
their elders, equally beside themselves,
raced up and down the stairways car
ryins trunks bedding and furniture
and fairly knocking each other off
their feet in their rush to get their
household effects to the street. Some
of the stuc was thrown out of the
window, and an unusual feature Of the
fire Yves that quite much damage
was done by the foreigners who lived
in the building, in trying to save their
belongings, as was caused by fire,
smoke and water.
Tom Ywanow, the owner of .he
building, conducts a saloon IN the cor
Ter store and back of this is a meat
DAMAGE BY WATER
shop run by Charlie Stancik Ywanow
lives in some rooms behind the meat
shop on the first floor. The damage
here was entirely due to the water
which came through from the upper
floors and flooded the apartments. The
basement. in which there are Turkish
baths, were also flooded.
The blaze started in a bathroom on
the third story, in which Ywanow had
stored a wagon load of autumn leaves.
just how 1t originated is not known.
1t was burning briskly between the
roof and the ceiling when the fire de-
partment under Assistant Chief James
Doherty arrived 1t was impossible to
get at the blaze with water, without
cutting a hole In the roof. and an open
ing about twenty feet square was ac-
cordingly made.
The exact amount of the loss could
sistant Chief Doherty was interviewed
regarding it, but he said he was going
TO get a contractor to estimate it. It
is bought however. that $4,000 will
about cover 1t. Charlie Stancik claims
that he suffered between $500 and $500
loss on his stock and fixtures in his
butcher shop.
Assistant Chief Doherty and his men
made record trip to the scene of the
blaze, and did good work getting the
flames under control soon after their
arrival The fire was discovered at
$40 a. m. and 1t was all out by HIS.