New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-30
FIRE IN CHINATOWN
CLAIMS FOUR LIVES
Three CeIestials Burned to
Death and One Dies After
Daring lump.
THIEF MAY HAVE SET IT
Plsze. Starting in Kitchen of
Restaurant, Quickly Destroys
Big Doyers Street
Tenement.

,uries received when he jumped to save
his life IN fierce fire that burned out
the six story tenement house at Nos. Is
end l. Doyers street early yesterday
morning Three other Cinnamon and
Two mattresses were injured more or less
seriously while making their escape.
Captain Big Bill Hodgins and his
reserves Of the Elizabeth street station
rescued so many panic-stricken Celes-
falls that they completely lost count of
them. There were close 20 two hun
dred Chinese tenants in the building
and fully one-half of them had to be
driven to the stairways and ladders by
fhe police They appeared to be par
aiz-zed with fear and huddled in hall
u-avs and corners. yelling Justify for help.
hui making no effort to escape from the
swiftly burning building until the police
came.
THE DEAD.
1T Mo&G TET, forty-seven years old. q laun-
drymsn-
HON SUK. sixty-five, laundrynan- died in
The Hudson Street Hospital from a frac-
ture % the pelvis, caused BY Jumping from
The roof Of the burning building to the
roof Of the three story building next door
CHI SING, forty-seven. laborer-
1c HOOK WEN, sixty-one, laborer
THE INJURED
nos, HING xfxtv-tnso laundryman. fractured
left ankle and commissions of body
HON You. sixty. laborer. fractured left ribs
HON LIE. sixty-four. musician. burns body
and face
EMERSON. Mrs. Mary, forty-flve. janitress
left arm fractured
NEARY. Elizabeth. forty-fve, janitress. burns
On hands and face
They were all taken TO the Hudson
street Hospital
The IRE started in the kitchen of the
restaurant of Yet Lok Wing. which oc-
cupied the entire second floor of the
double number. No one knew just how
i began but IT was presumably from
towels hanging near the stove, or from
nearby package OF paper napkins.
Fire Burns Four Hours
Il spread rapidly both up and down
and burned steadily from about O'Clock
10 O'Clock in the morning. The entire
building was burned out though the
walls and roof were saved Chief l1'--,l14ss-
estimated the damage at 100000
The Rescue Society Midnight Mission
occupied the north half of the ground
floor and the other half sheltered the Wah
Shung Social Club, which was the gam
bling house in which Ong Now WAS shot
md killed on April 10 last as the third
victim Of the tong war of that day.
The Morningstar Mission occupied
rooms on the third floor above the res
tsurant in which the blaze started, and
rapidly did the fire run up that the
tenants who occupied the tenement
rooms above that floor were most of
them forced 10 the roof for escape, the
Ere being famed by the draft on the
Stairway below.
The Mandarin Tea Garden, at No. Is
Taoyers street. the next door south Of
ne burned building. was partly dam
@ged by the blaze, and the third story
md roof above were generously soaked
with water.
Half Of the Cinnamon found in the
building by the police reserves were
scrambling through trunks and boxes,
irving 10 save their valuables, and many
II them had 10 be dragged 10 the fire
escape in front and to the windows on
be south side above the three story
building next door. From these Windows
and from rhe roof above they jumped in
groups 10 the roof of the Mandarin Tea
Garden. most Of them escaping without
injury.
Three pstrolmen Of the Elizabeth
rrest station Mcdonald, Havac and
Gleason. stationed on the roof Of the
Mandarin. II Nc. Is Doyer street. caught
Il least 2 score of the terror stricken
'eiestisls a. they leaped from the win
COWS and roof Of the burning building
Mrs. Emerson landed on her left SIDE
ahd broke her arm. Mrs. Neary made
me Jump IN good fashion and was caught
neanly b. Mcdonald However, she re-
'siEed several small burns about the
Hsnds and face. Mrs. Emerson is slight
deaf and was not awakened until the
smoke began to choke her.
She TOLD the police that on Saturday
night she had sent her twelve-year-old
aug iil+-E TO lfit stDEhf W IL
'r9fher ia West 47th street, for visit
two weeks She is known among the
hinese as Mother Emerson" has lived
- me Chinatown district for upward OF
teen Years, and is said TO know more
ne politics and business of the Chi
inhabitants than any other person.
81 their race, who ever lived there
-aolnas Hardy. who has been for
ifty Years the caretaker of the Mid
'sAt Rescue Missions rooms. was asleep
chair when the cries Of the police
YSe him. He managed TO carry out
he lew pieces Of small furniture, but
able upright Steinway piano, do
@'ea 70 the mission a few weeks ago.
entirely destroyed.
''l Then, who told the police he was
~ mate Of chu Sing, one OF the men
~ Was burned 10 death. said that his
'psnion insisted on stopping To gel
eF and jeWelry hidden ia the bottom
ias trunk and 50 the flames hemmed
- a. Tn police found Chu Sing four
1 later lying IN the doorway of ms
- feom, with his left side terribly
se and his stim fingers still dutch
FEATHER purse containing Re"