New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-16
One of the Rescued Persons a
Woman of SO, and Another
a Man Sick Abed.
BLUEC0ATS BRAVE FLAMES
Dash Up Blaze Swept Fire Es.
capes for Women and Chill.
dren Trapped in Tene.
ment House.

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go Avenue B. One Of the rescued
tenants was a woman ninety three
years old and another a sick and help
less man. The first, which started in
an apartment on the second floor, de.
stroyed that floor as well as the third
and fourth.
Those rescued we're: Mrs. Rose
Kravltz. niney-three years old; Mrs.
Sarah Kravitz. her daughter in-law:
SalIle Kravitz nine years old. daugh-
ter Of Mrs Sarah Kravitz; Title Kra-
vitz, eight, her daughter; Frieda, five,
her daughter; Mrs. Dora Goldberg,
twenty-eieht yeas old; Jacob Goldberg.
her son. three years old; Israel Moses,
eight; Sarah Moses, six; Samuel Moses,
ten; Fannie Moses, twelve; Charles
Greenberg, twentynine.
The patrolmen who. unassisted. car
ried the twelve down the fire escapes
we're Joseph Mccormick Of the 5th
stree, police station, and John Zipp, Of
the Union Market police station.
Mrs. Sarah Kravitz, her aged mother
INLAY and the formers three children
were fond huddled in the dense smoke
on the nre escape platform in front 4
their apartment on the third floor. De-
,tccting smoke and hearing the roar Of
the flames on the floor below, they had
sought refuge on the fire escape plat
form. There a cloud of smoke envel-
oped them.
Mrs. Sarah Kravitz realized that the
task OF carrying down her aged moth
er-in-law and her three children was
a hopeless one. The FIVE were nearly
overcome when Mccormick and Zpp
reached them They were carried
safely to the street, where they were
taken care Of by other tenants, who
had fec down the stairways before the
flames spread from the second floor
apartment or bad gone to the roof aud
TO adjoining tenement houses.
Patrolmen Again to Rescue.
The two patrolmen again ascended
the front fire escape, which was hidden
from those in the street by smoke. On
the fourth floor platform they found
Mrs. Goldberg, her son and the four
Moses children. One by one they were
carried safely down TO the street
Mccormick and Zipp were RI ling
their secke filed eyes, when Mrs
Sarah Greenberg. occupying an apart
ment on the fourth floor, tugged at
their coats.
Go back once more" she pleaded.
MY brothers up there" She swung
her arm in the direction Of the burn
ing upper floors.
Hes injured and helpless" she
added.
The patrolmen did not hesitate Al
ready the flames were issuing from the
front windows of the second and third
floors. making it impossible for them
70 climb the fire escape ladders to the
fourth. The fire apparatus was ap-
preaching.
I'VE can't get upstairs-its a fur
mace" shouted Zipp through the dih'
making a megaphone Of his hands
There's another way" shouted oacE
Mccormick. GO to the roof Of No, %
cross overcome down the back hrs
escape"
Rescue Helpless Man.
As the fremen dragged lines OF hose
into the ground floor of the tenemens
house. Mccormick and Zipp took the
course the former had outlined AZ
they reached the fourth floor nre
escape platform a hand was thrust
through q window pane and gripped
them A white face was pressed against
the glass. The patrolmen opened inc
window and seized man who, II Wss
later learned, had staggered TO the win-
dow from his bed, through the SMOKE
filed atmosphere. He was Charles
Greenberg, brother Of the woman WIZ
had pleaded 20 them In the street.
Two weeks ago Greenberg was SCI
upon by thugs in Tompkins Park ana
was stabbed twice I'm the back, bo'h
wounds being pronounced serious.
He was carried safely up the IRE e.
cape TO the roof and down the star
ways Of No. SO to the street. Some one
had summoned an ambulance, and pr'
Shea. OF Bellevue Hospital, found tha'
Greenberg had received a deep cut ID
his right wrist that penetrated an
artery. He had lost much blood anu
together with Mrs. Dora Goldberg WO0
was revived, was taken to the hospi'ah
The fire was extlnguished by hremsn
after an hours work. II was thsO
learned that It had had its origin
the kitchen of the apartment OF Pauih'
Bernstein, on the second floor ~
overheated stove was said 10 have oe'N
the cause. Thirty-two families-mO''
than one hundred and nifty tenants
were in the house when the nre
discovered. Those not rescued escaps
down the stairways and over the wv
The loss was $4,000.
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