New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-06
MANY TRAPPED BY FIRE
Big Crowd Sees Sensational
Rescnes of Tenants.

fire that caught the tenants ot an
apsrtment house while they were eating
supper. or preparing it, at o:3o O'CLOCK
!. Ct night cost two lives. resulted in the
injury Of half dozen persons and gave
tremendous crowd the opportunity 10
cheer sensational rescues Of many VINO
had been trapped by the flames.
The house. which is No. 105 West 6sth
street. lust north Of the 22d Regiment
Arr,ory. is a five story brick apartment
structure. There are fire escapes on the
back. and these. with the front windows,
furnished the only means of exit. for the
fire started in the furnace In the base
ment. and came boiling up the dumb
waiter shaft and the staircase.
II burst through the kitchen into the
living room of Herman Grunesch, on the
fourth floor. Grunesch, who is haber"
dasher at No. 1855 Broadway, was homo
with his wife and his mother, and hold
ing his four months -old son. Theodore. on
his lap. When the gush OF red shot into
the room he leaped up and pushed tho
women in front OF him. He was stu
holding his child in his arms. and when
he dashed through the smoke to th@
front windows he held the baby out OF
the window so that 1t would not De SUI
focated by the smoke and screamed for
help. Three youths who were passing In
the street below instantly developed into
real heroes. They heard the yells OF the
man, looked up. and in moment ran 10
the house next door. They were Harry
Fantrv. Of No. 2S West 23d street. West
New York: Lloyd Gass, OF No. 953 Fox
street, The Bronx. and William J. Flynn.
Of No. 1Ss West 67th street.
The door OF No. 107. the house next to
the one on fire. was locked, hut the boys
broke the lock and hurried upstairs to
the fourth floor. They hammered on the
door of an apartment, but were refused
admission. Young Fantry took tnings
into his hands again, broke down the
door. rushed by the people inside ana
went TO the windows. People In the
street were yelling TO the Grunesch
women: Don't jump" Pantry looked
out and then threw his leg over and
rested his foot on a ledge about foos
wide which spreads above the windows.
Rescue Family Of Four.
out he went on the ledge. with Gass
holding to him. little further back As
he edged along, Flynn was half in. half
ont ~ the window, and the brave young
fellows passed the baby FROM Grunesch
hack twenty feet along their human
chain.
An alarm had beer turned In and fire
trucks were dashing into the street be-
low. Truck No 35 shot up 35-foot lad
der but Il missed by four feet the VIM
dow where Grunesch and the two women
stood. The boys passed the man along
across their bodies TO the house next
door. apd then Fantry persuaded the
Younger Mrs Grunesch to step out on
the narrow ledge with him.
Fireman BENJAMIN Harvey. a strong.
red headed young smoke eater crooked
his leg in the top rung of the ladder. and
Fantry caught Mrs tGrunesch under the
armpits and swung her over the four
foot gap to the fireman below. He bum
oled her up. like a meal sack over his
shoulder and started down the ladder
with her passing Firemen Robert Len
non and Thomas Farrell. They came up
the ladder. and men held their legs