The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-26

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with one another to climb about five feet
from the roof Of their own building to
the roof Of an adjoining building at the
corner OF Waverley place and Greene
street. The law students say that the
men bit and kicked the women and girls
for chance to climb to the slightly higher
roof and safety.
Kremer. when the last OF the group
nearest the law school had been saved.
climbed down the ladder to the roof
Of the Asch Building and went down the
roof scuttle through the smoke to the
top floor. He could see only one girl,
who ran shrieking toward him with her
hair burning. She had come up from
the floor beneath and as she came to
Kremer she tainted in his arms.
He smothered the sparks in her hair
with his hands and then tried to carry
her up the narrow ladder to the roof
But because she was unconscious he had
! to wrap long strands Of her hair around
his hand and drag her to fresh air In
that way. His friend Kanter helped
him to get the girl up the ladder to the
law school roof and the two students
after she had been revived. got a taxicah
for her and sent her home in East iO8th
street. They did not ask her name.
The One Small Fire Escape.
At the rear OF the western wing Of the
building was one small fire escape. the
only one ON the building. Law students
| across the court saw only one person
q man. 60 down this fire escape. The
fire escape runs down to the small court
the pavement OF which Ia sunken two
stories below the street level.
Joe Tito. the elevator man at the Wash
ington place entrance to tho Asch Building
says that he and Casper. who runs ths
elevator next to Joe's. made more thar
fifteen trips to the upper floors. mostly
to the eighth, after the fire started and thA
they brought down from twelve to fifteer
girls at each trip.
4 Joe was sitting in his elevator at tn,
street floor. he told THE SrN reporter,
last night, when screams and the smash
ing of glass on the elevator shaft doc
at the eighth floor caused him to shoe
J his car upward. He saw Mr.. Blanck
Joe says. standing near the elevator an,
striking at crazy men while the employe
yelled to Joe to take the girls down first
The other partner. Harris. was standing
near the other elevator door the frat tim,
Joe went up for . load. but he didn't se
Harris after that.
, It was on either his second or thir,
trip that Joe heard the glass Of the doc
at the ninth floor break. and % he wen
al the way to the top floor. There was n
one around the elevator door ct the tent
floor. Joe said. but he took crowd on a
the ninth.
"whsn I'd made almost twenty trips.
, said Joe. Il could sec a. started up 70
another load that the flames were spread
ing all across the elevator shaft at tn
eighth floor. couldn't 60 up into tha,
and at any time the fire might burn OF,
! the top rests. Of the cable. SO starte
! back 10 The street floor. and o. did ther
was an awful hang on the top Of the ele
vator md blood dropped on me. It ws
girl who had jumped down the shat
when she saw. Guess. that the elevate
wasn't ever coming up again. And be
fore got to the bottom floor one bod
after another was slamming on top OF tn
elevator Gage. Maybe there are twenty
, five Of them piled up on top OF the ele
. vator In the shaft. maybe forty or fifty"
SHWeThnS W Suc abOOics
Despite Joe's loyal protests Casper
the other elevator man. made man
trips after the fire started. Toward OIL
, !, o'clock the police. directed by Deput
: Commissioner Driscoll. Inspector Schmiti
: berger. Inspector DAILY and Capt. Henry
began to gather up the bodies from Il,
. sidewalks close TO the buildings IN
to haul more bodies from the water |
. the basement through the hole in III
vault light which the bodies had mad
when striking. Firemen in the meantim,
y led by Chief Croker. had got to the eight
, and ninth foors-the woodwork of tn
: windows on the tenth floor still was burr
ing briskly almost two hours after III
fire started-and the firemen came o,
a little later to report that they had cor
y across not only half burned dead bodie
!. but had seen charred limbs Of bodi,
!. that had been incinerated.
n Worst since Brooklyn Theatre Fire.
The worst fire in New York building
said Chief Croker as he came out anon
Z the ambulances and fire apparatus agail
i -since the burning of the Brooklyn Theatl
in the '7Os."
The police had carried to the east sid
OF Greene street about fifty bodies {
9 women. charred and dripping. The
q spread great canvas OF dark red on Il
sidewalk and laid the dead in row
Worming their way between the clutt,
" OF ambulances. mounted policemen. pi
troll wagons and throbbing fire engine
u came men bearing rough brown coffiI
a on their shoulders. The police had Sci
70 to the Morgue for rs or 100 coffins, br
% all the Morgue could pile into the patr
. wagons was about sixty-five.
When the bodies had been covered vii
10 tarpaulins the police crossed again
N the sidewalks under the windows fro
% which the girls had jumped and picks
I, up the cheap belongings that the cir
II had clutched when they ran to the windo,
IA sills. There were many leather ham
70 bags. broken combs and hair ribbon
Or some dimes and cents. parts Of olothir
70 that had been torn OF in the wild pan
on the floors above, and in the gutter wat
q policeman picked up what appear,
to be q necklace, but which under h
.. :. electric light proved to be a pair Of rosa
beads.
y The police piled all these scraps with d
;" ~ bodies and then began the task OF placiI