The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-26
By Policemen in New York Fire
in the Early Morning
BUT TWO BURNED TO DEATH
Officers Found IS People Trapped in
Building and Succeeded in Saving Most
of Them, While Firemen Smoth-
cred the Flames.

New York, March ga flash of flame
| from an overturned oil stove shot
through the Fall River clearinghouse at
ia West street yesterday morning and
within few minutes had trapped thir-
ty-five dodgers in their rooms on the
upper floors of the building. Despite
heroic work by firemen and policemen,
two persons, a man and woman, were
burned to death, and five others, two of
whom are dying, were badly injured.
Firemen and policemen risked death in
the burning building to get the dodgers
out, and down ladders and fire escapes
they brought the men and one woman
to safety. Occupants of adjoining build
ings, both Of them lodgnghouses, were
reused by the police when it was feared
that the fire would extend, and routed
out of their beds to the street without
getting chance to dress.
The dead are Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins,
As years old, the owner of the house
and an unidentified negro.
The injured are George Gleason, As
years old, Michael Pierce, Al; Michael
Wallace, rs; Patrick Mcnamara, 35, and
man who was unable to give his name
All We're removed in a serious condition
to the Hudson street hospital. McNa-
mara and the unidentified man are be-
lieved to be dying from their injuries.
The fire started in the front room on
the second floor The overturned stove
scattered oil over the woodwork and in
an instant the flames were shooting
along the room and out into the hall.
Carried along by a draught from an
open window they swept up the stairs,
cutting off egress in this way from the
dodgers asleep above.
Patrolmen 0'Bren and Timms of the
Greenwich street police station saw the
smoke coming from the second story
window and sent in an alarm. Know
ing that the house was probably filed
with dodgers, the two policemen. after
rapping for help, broke into the door
and dashed upstairs through the smoke
and flames to warn the sleepers.
In the rear room on the second floor
the policemen found Mrs. Hawkins al
most dead by her bed They picked her
up and started back through the fire
with her, but were unable TO make the
front stairs, Turning, they found their
way to the window and out on a one
story extension TO the adjoining build
ing. Just as they laid her on the roof
she died. The policemen then succeeded
in getting other dodgers out the same
way.
Michael Wallace, an aged paralytie,
occupied a room in the front OF the
second floor. He was awakened BY the
fire and managed to crawl from his bed
to the fire escape. Two men got out OF
the same window and lowered the fire |
ladder to the ground, down which they
climbed. Patrolmen Bostwick and Boy |
Ian OF the Leonard street station climbed /
up the ladder and carried Wallace to
the street He was badly burned and /
DR.. Garrett sent him to the Hudson
street hospital
Several men Of fire patrol found /
Mrs. Mary Lynch, a lodged 50 years
old, in a room on the second floor. They /
carried her through the flames to the
roof Of the extension in the rear, whence
she was lowered to the street.