The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-06-01

without struggle.
FerociOus Sultan Escaped.
The eighth. champion beast called
Sultan, escaped. When Bonavita
opened the door Of the cage to get
out himself, the lion leaped into the
center of the seats In Ine arena and
dashed out into the avenue in the very
center of vast crowds.
When the lion, panic-stricken as he
on run, the crowds were thrown
INTO panic. There was a mad dash
INTO buildings and other places of
safety.
Finished With an Axe.
The police, with drawn revolvers
followed him. Volley after volley was
poured into the lion. Sultan made no
move to attack them and was badly
wounded when the policemen had
emptied the guns. Then one of them
seeing that the beast was helpless. got
fire axe and drove the sharpened
end into the animals brain.
How Other Parks Were Saved.
From Dreamland Park, where IL
wiped out all the concessions and the
huge tower, the fire spread westward
for five blocks. with the fremen fight
ing to keep il on the ocean side of
SURF Avenue and prevent its contact
with Luna Park and Steeplechase, the
other big establishments on the Island.
Dreamland Park through which the
hremen could take their lines of hose.
one was through the big spectacle
Creation" and the other between two
hotels on the southern side. So rap
idly did the flames shoot around. fed
by the highly combustible construc-
ton OF the buildings, that the fire.
men were driven from the park.
The fire boats "copper" Mills, New
Yorker and Seth Low steamed at top
speed TO a point off the beach nearby
Dreamland and turned powerful
streams upon the blaze from their
high pressure apparatus.
Woman Saved BY Parrot
Miss Agnes Thorpe, a reader in the
show called Creation" was asleep
in her room on Dreamland pier when
she was aroused by cries of her pet
parrot.
Miss Thorpe awoke to fined her
room lighted as bright as midday from
the flames.
Dropping from the window. she fell
twenty-five feet and was badly
bruised. but she managed to save both
herself and her parrot. She was taken
TO the hospital still clutching the bird
cage.
During the height of the fire a cub
bear escaped from a cage in the Bos-
took animal show and ran into Surf
Avenue, uttering weird bowls fear.
y chauffeur, without fear, persuaded
the bear to get into his taXicab, and
drove on with 1t. A leopard also got
loose and was shot in Surf Avenue
Chiefs Spectacular Escape.
Only ten of the 100 animals in the
Bostock show were saved.
Battalion Chief Dooley had a mar
row escape from death. He was stand
ing in the middle of the street direct
ing the fight on the fire when a fire
engine drawn by three plunging horses
bore down upon him. In attempting
to escape DOoley slipped on a line of
hose and fell. The horses were upon
him, but the PROSTATE man had the
presence of mind to grasp the ring
the engine and held on. He was
dragged block before the horses
were stopped.
Manager Gumpertz estimated the
damage TO Dreamland at more than
$1,5OO.O00.
Policemen Rescue Women.
Miss Clara Balmer was asleep in
her apartments above Balmer's bath
ing pavilion when she was aroused.
Delaying to recover some keepsakes
given her by her dead father, she
was overcome by smoke and was car
rled out unconscious by two police
men.
Miss Edith Green. secretary to Man
ager Max Gumpert, Of the Dream
land Company, with Miss Virginia
west, friend, was in the admins
trat1on building checking up the re-
ceipts of the day when the fire broke
out. The women were panic-stricken.
and so dense was the smoke in the
balcony leading to the ground floor
that they could not see. Their cries
were heard by Police Lieutenant Con-
Der. who dashed into the building and
carried both girls to safety
Alarms Ferari Show.
Thomas Kelly, one Of the keepers
OF the Ferari animal arena, another
Dreamland concession, was among the
first to hear the cries of fire He
started at once to warn the employees,
who were sleeping in a room beneath
the arena. In the darkness he fell
and broke his arm.
Unmindful of the pain, he kept on
his way and refused to go to the
Emergency Hospital for treatment I'M
til he wac assured that all his friends
had made their way to safety.
Chinaman Saves Arab.
Omas SAM, who had a show called
sacrifice" in Dreamland Park, was
overcome by smoke and was lying UNI
conscious when his Chinese servant,
Wong Fang, who had been trying to
make his masters plight known to
the police, broke through the lines
and carried SAM to safety. He was
taken to a hospital.
500 Policemen Called to Island.
The French liner La Lorraine was
anchored off Coney Island when the.
fire started. The glow lighted I'D the
sky with a lurid red, arousings the
crew and passengers OF the ship. Cap