Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-01
Many Rescued DIR
ing Chapel Street
Tenement Blaze
STARTS IN STABLE AND
THREE HORSES ARE LOST
Tenants Lose Heavily and
Some Are Without
Homes Today.

Thrilling rescues by firemen and
neighbors prevented loss of life In u
fire which started in the stable Of
the Ironbound Union Charcoal Com
pany, in the rear of 100 Chapc
street, and destroyed a three-stof.
frame tenement In the rear of ~
Chapel street, last night.
Twenty-eight persons were mad
homeless by the fire, and are toda:
seeking temporary quarters in tht
peighborhood. Landlords, however.
are demanding a prohibitive rate for
their rooms, and a majority OF the
families were still homeless at noon
today.
Good fortune vas all that saved
Mrs. Kitty Manoisius, who lived on
the third floor of the building. from
being burned to death. After being
rescued she returned to save an ac-
Gordon which she had played in her
eirlhood days and which had been
brought to this country from Italy
by her brother but a few days ago.
She was overcome by smoke, and
but for the presence in the building
of another tenant, who found her
lying in the hallway, she would prob
ably have persisted.
second Fire There.
II is the second time buildings on
the same cite have been destroyed
by fire. An i%ncendiary blaze about
eight years ago burned down a stable
and house where these structures
stood.
Last nights fire, which started
from an unknown cause in the sta
BILE, was discovered by a tenant on
the second floor about . O'Clock. Hc
aroused his family, and while he ran
out to turn in an alarm members Of
his family ran through the building.
notifying the other tenants, many
of whom had retired. Clasping their
children in their arms and ! n scanty
clothing, mothers rushed from the
burning building into the street.
Others were rescued by neighbors
and iremen.
After all of the tenants had been
rescued attention was turned to the
barn, but too late to save three
horses that persisted. Owen Lynch,
OF 81 Chapel street, led the animals
as far as the door, but here they
bolted back into the flames, where
they could not be reached. Benjamin
Holberg, of 90 Chapel street. m
ployed by the charcoal company as a
driver, and who is said to have
been the last man in the stable be-
fore the fire, declared that he left
the place about 7 o'clock. and at that
time there was no sign of a fire. He
could give no. explanation as to how
1t started. y
suffer Complete Loss.
Those who suffered complete loss
Of their belongings besides the two
families on the first floor of the rear
house are: Vladsyslos S~tanislafski,
three in family; Michael Mickolesky,
three In family. and Joseph Maczonik,
four In family. Besides the families
fen boarders lived in the house. The
other families saved part of their be-
longings, but all suffered some loss.
The narrow yard separating the
house from the stable caused the
rapid spread of the fire. 1t also spread
to the rear porch of the fourteen-fam-
ily tenement at 9S-100 Chapel street.
and many of the families in this
house ran into the street. This blaze,
however, was caught by the firemen
before II had done much damage. The
loss to the buildings is estimated at
about $4,000.