The evening world., 1911-05-01
Tries to Leap TO Adjoining
Roof but Plunges Down
an Airshaft.
SOME DARING RESCUES
George Cunningham and TIM
othy Manning, Tenants of
Building, Do Gallant Work.

One woman was mortally hurt and
a fire panic OF exciting proportions
swept through the slx-story apartment
house at No. Loot Third avvenue when
a blaze In some rubbish nlled the house
With smoke ~ . O'Clock TINS morning.
There were several tarIlliug rcscues.
The ground floor NJ the building IL
occupied by stores. Twenty families
live IN the front and rear apartments.
The dumbwaiter shaft Is OF hollow tile
and fireproof. In the middle of the build
ing. The doors OF the sa~rt open into
private Railways leading to the rear
apartments.
The flames started in n heap of rub
bish. Before they were discovered they
had gone up the dumbwai,er shaft and
the doors cf the shaft burned on. letting
tho smoke out In clouds.
There were first class fre-escapes on
both the front ana rear OF the house.
Policeman K~roenoitter. who saw the
blaze, thought he would have only 10
arouse the people and they would he
safe. hut soon there was a panic from
top to bottom.
Might Have Gone Out Safely.
Mrs. Edward Dugan lived In three
rooms on the sixth foor rear. She and
her husband heard the cries Of Fire"
and rushed first into the kitchen. II
would have been an easy matter Tor
them to have stepped out onto the fire
escape and walked to the ground as
easily az walking downstairs. but both
lost their heads. Instead they went
into another room In which there Ia n
window opening partly over the air
shaft and partly over the roof of tho
adjoining building, No. 1862. four fee,
below.
AS she stood poised on the Intel she
had but to drop four feet to the other
roof. But the smoke had gained the
airshaft M was so dense she could not
see the edge OF the roof. nor could she
see two telephone wires strung near the
window.
When she jumped her chest struck
the wires and she fell nifty feet dowr
the airshaft. where she VAS found IN
conscious a short time later.
Her husband followed her. lie wa
not so much blinded by the smoke a,
his wife had been. and seems to hav,
noticed the telephone wires as he mad,
the four-foot drop In safety.
Tried to Leap on.
Policeman Kroenbitter had gone ~
through the adjoining house by thi.
time and reached the roof just as
Dugan landed on II. Mrs. Dugan had
been discovered In the ~airshaft. and
when Dugan saw that his wife hat
fallen he became "A maniac
lie struggled to get to the edge OF the
roof and jump of, and the police.
man had TO throttle and hold him down
until help came.
lie was removed In a straightiacket
Just a. his wife was carried through
the cellar to the pavement In front OF
the house, whore tho last rites OF the
Church were administered by the Rev
Father Talbot Of the Church OF tn.
Lady OF Good Counsel. Ninetieth street,
IN the presence Of the crowd. She was
hurried then 10 Presbyterian Hospital
Hugh OConnor. his wife and two
children. Anna. four. and May. two.
live on the sixth floor. Mrs. O'Connor
was about to jump, but was told to wait.
In the meantime otto Ruhle, "A rigger
living on the sixth floor. north. had for.
gotten the fire esrapcs aud jumped to
the roof Of 40. 1856 four feet below one
OF his windows. James Fitzgerald fol
lowed. ana when he got to the edge OF
the root saw the perilOu. positions oi
Mrs. O'Connor.