The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-05
HEROES SAVE FOUR
OVERCOME |NF|RE
THAT MENACES2OO
Policemen Rush Through
Flame and Smoke to Garry
Out the Victims.
CHILDREN GIVE ALARM.
Uttered Fire Escapes Add to
Peril of Panicky Fugitives
From Tenements.

On the eve Of the noisy celebration
81 the fiesta OF e.. Vito. when all
oosrck street was strung to-day with
eolored lights, and tho booths OF huck-
sters were going up on both curbs,
sudden tenement fire spread a paralysis
ever many blocks and endangered the
nves Of more than two hundred persons.
Mrs. Samuel weinizimmer. who lives
on the fourth floor OF the big six story
tenement at No. Z, went marketing
early to-day and left her ten-year-old
son. Alexis, to play in the rooms with
Sammy and Moritz Rossnthal. from
across the hall. Mrs. weinizimmer had
first hung her pillows out of windows
90 air. Some one must have dropped a
cigarette upon them from q window
shove.
CHILDREN FLED. FLAMES QUICK.
" FOLLOWED.
The children hearing the crackle of
flames. ran from the front room where
they we're playing out to the Kitchen.
60 End half Of II ablaze. Intent only on
getting away from the flames and for
getting the fire escape, the three young
sters ran through the blazing kitchen
into the hallway. All three were slight
~ singed but not seriously hurt. But
by leaving open the door into the kitchen
they allowed the smoke and then the
flame 10 MI the hallway.
Almost before the score OF families In
the tenement knew what had caused the
childish screams IN the hallway the pail
Of smoke had swept down stairs COM
pletely choking this exit. Some from
the NTH and sixth stories tried to make
thsir way down the stairs. but were
turned back by the sheet OF flame Is
suing from the weininmmer apart
nen;s. Then began a wild scramble for
ehs fire-escapes.
Contrary to the law. all the IRE es-
cape platforms were clogged with bed
dug. flower boxes and other household
lmpedimenta. Many OF the openings
through the balconies were so stopped
BY these distractions that the frst ten
Ghts to descend hurled boxes. garbage
cans and bedding upon the heads Of
persons in the street. Every checking
Of the downward stream OF terrified
tenants added to their terror.
FOUR UNCONSCIOUS VICTIMS
CARRIED TO STREET.
Policeman Sewell OF the Delaney
street station. rushed up the smoke
filled stairs to the fourth floor. There
no stumbled over Mrs. Maria Poiitzo.
who had been overcome by smoke. Sc
well was dragging the woman. who
was very heavy. down TO the lower
floors when Policeman suffer arrived
60 help him.
After they had brought Mrs. Politzo
" tho street they turned back. They
found Moritz Kluber unconscious Oh
the third floor; Sewell took him down
through the smoke. while Suffer ex-
Clorcd deserted apartments. In one oH
the third floor the policeman found two
little girls. Pearl and Stella krakover
Auddled in a corner by a window their
orms about each other. and uncon-
pcious. Both Of the little girls were
soon on the sidewalk.
The flames had jumped across Hight
shaft from the tenement at No. Z
that At No. 8 before tho fremen arrived
and q swarm OF persons WAS fightins
for the Are escape ladders on the fronts
OF both buildings. The flower pots
cooking pots and kettles that the,
kicked off were real perils to the IRE
men below. Nevertheless. Capt. Slevtf
and Lieut.. Harmon soon had ladde'
trucks In position and they ran NJ
three ladders against the fronts Of the
awo burning tenements. These relievet
the congestion on the hre escape anc
ali Of the tenants were safely on thu
ground By the time the water began e
shoot.