The evening world., 1911-12-09
-FOUR CHILDREN
TRAPPED IN BLAZE
SET BY F|REBUG
One Youngster Fatally Burned
When Flames Cut of
All Escape.
POLICE RESCUE SCORE.
One Family Dropped From
Rear Windows After Being
e. Aroused From Sleep.
POLICE RESCUE SCORE.

this morning.
The building. a nye-story tenement.
has Gristede Brothers grocery on the
ground floor and one family on each Of
the other noors. Thu cellar Ia used for
storage purposes by the grocers. The
ever goes there at night and there is no
furnace or other fire there.
Policeman Joseph Mlchelson wa at
One Hundred and Twelfth street when
the flames burst through the sidewalk
grating. lie called Policeman Max Nor
ris and Gustav Thompson and they tried
TO get In the front door to the upper
floors. but found It locked.
They could see through the glass tina
the flames had eaten through the moor
under the stairway and we're running up
the stairs.
While a citizen n the bells In the
v%estibule TO arouse the tenants the po-
hcemcn hur risd up through the adjoin-
ing house. No. 1ilt.
They crossed the roof. and the frst
Of the tenants found were Patrick
Dooley. his wife and three children.
who lived IN the top floor. The nrs-
escape on the building Is at the back.
and the Doolsys had tried to reach II,
but the smoke coming up the airshaft
blinded them. They closed the window
and tried to get down the stairs. but
nav this was impossible.
Policeman Morris opened . window
Ind passed them W. n by one. to
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Jacobson. . ellison. who In turn handed
them over the "~gooseneck" to the roof.
CHILDREN RUN BACK A. PAR.
gNre ARE eAvEo.
On the fourth fioor lives John sheri-
dan, his wife Mary, and their children,
Marie, ten years old; John. eight: Nellie.
seven. and Kathleen. three. They also
have as boarders John Curtis. James
Campbell. Alden Fritchi md FrarN
Miller.
When the bell rang In tbs Sheridan
apartment II awoke everybody. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sheridan, with the children. ran
: into the hallway. but finding II nlled
with smoke and seeing the fire darling
I'M the stair well. ran back and hurried
TO the rear windows to reach the fire.
escape.
, The four children became panic.
4. stricken md made Q dash back into the
hall, the door OF which had been left
, open. About the same time their parents
had been seized at the rear window and
, carried 70 the root by %rescuers. who did
not know for some ,oments that the
: four children q been left In the apart
mont
n. AhA raAantinnA thu fnfr hna RI Ara
: whose rooms were in front. were tryins
to escape by the windows. Policeman
, Thompson had gons into the fiat OF John
NJ. Ryan Il Nc. 2llA. on the same nooi
A. that OF the shcr;dans. Fritchi and
q Miller were hanging to the window
sill calling for help.
Thompson straddled the sill. and with
Ryan hanging to his leg to keep hin
from being pulled out. reached over ans
lifted the two men along the cornics
Q Curtis n Campbell went to the real
and reached tho roof by the hrs escap
\ about the time Mr.. and Mrs. Sherid a,
). were rescued.
!, -FOUR. CHILDREN sURkED, ONE
= FATALLY.
J, BY this time nremen reached tn
ePeh .
and Joe skeily. Of truck No. rs. wer
tho FIRST to enter. They found Marie 0
the floor In the hallway. ~unconscio,i
5; and burned about the face ana bod,
I ,ne had been overcome by smoke befor
u. ,hs could get back into the room.
A.. Two Of the other children had SUI
:, ceeded In getting back and climbed In
\ their bed and the third had fallen III
. conscious on the floor between the bs
n and the door. The open door to Il
o; hall had let the flames into the room
q; and everything was ablaEe.
All four of the children were bad
burned about the face. neck and bod
They were treated by Drs. Ritter al
Of Marion and taken to Harlem Hospiti
he where 1t wa said Marie could not 9
10. cover. All the children received Il
d. last rites Of the Church from Faith
~. Walsh. the hospital chaplain.
OF Mrs. Caroline Holmes. a policeman
~ widow. and three children. who live
No the second floor. slammed the door
IA. soon as she saw tho smoke and fre
the hallway. When the family got
the rear IRE escape they found the bls
had come up from the cellar and turn
'st It into q griddle. SO hot they could n
ok get on It.
as Lieut.. Brindei OF Truck No. 10 car
/. down from the roof and. hurrying
family 20 the front OF the house. pass
"a them over the coping to the house ne
a,r door. where they were cared for
Ia friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Hourigan. thu
Ave children and a boarder, 0acu
J.. Lomelino. slxty-seven years old, W
IN live on the third floor. were taken
OF the roof by the fre-escaps and IA
the was injured.
'rk WORK OF A FiREeuo, SAY
nd eins cuIEe
Acting Battalion Chief Lynch ssnt
3 secoadr alarm. which bseu0ht pspt
NJ chisf Naosrtaa. Tha Ara danaseA I