Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-26
8 GIRLS AND MAN
SAVED BY WILD
LEAP mid FLAME

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were out of the building when Ada
Heding appeared on the third floor OF
the Nassau street side. She pushed up
q window and flung herself out,
screaming wildlf as she fell.
Lulu Mcdowell jumped from the Boy
den side. Three. boys, Tony AgoIia
Sally Sorrieno and Thomas Jacobs.
ran under as she fell and broke her
fall. She was taken to the City Hos
pital hysterical and possibly suffering
from internal injuries. 1t took four
attendants to hold her in bed when
she thought she had to repeat the ter
rible Jump she had made.
Flames Under Control.
When the tower and the high-pres-
sure lines were working the j. fremen
commenced to get the flames under
control, although 1T vas at first feared
the fire would sweep the entire block
of fimsy tenement houses. +
While being taken to the City Hos
pital in the Second precinct ambulance.
Miss Heding recovered sufficiently to
tell her story to an Evening STAR re-
porter. who had been the first to reach
her side when she jumped.
I'll was in the cloak ROOM" she
gasped. II came out-they were all
gone-all the other girl The smoke
fire was all around. | couldn't get to
the stairway. 1t was sitting. ] ran
to a window. | couldn't ct it up for
a minute. O, it was terriblei Then I
managed to get outside and l dropped"
She was badly bruised and shaken
up, but apparently ESCAPED more seri-
Gus injuries.
Manager Dobbin had an equally try
ing experience.
We've never had any fire drills" he
told an Evening STAR reporter after
an ambulance surgeon had revived
him. II never imagined it could be so
terrible. | smelt smoke. An instant
later the flames seemed to be shooting
through the building. 1t was like a
flash.
1.-THE girls vent out-o. so slowly.
They were anic-stricken. / couldn't
them hear. They wouldn't listen.
Then | saw they were having trou-
BILE with the ire-escape at the bottom.
| Jumped to fix 1t. 1t felt as if my
ankle snapped, but l forgot il in a
minute after. Then I tried to get III
again, after all the girls had gone
down. | saw Miss Heding jump from
inside. / stumbled over into the office
and got the stock books. Some way or
other r had sense enough to hold on
to them and get out. | don't know how.
| did it,
Miss Mcdowell, who WAS saved by.
the three boys who caught her as she
fell, continued over and over again to
through the terrible minutes before
she jumped while she was in the City
Hospital,
Fire! Fire. she would scream. 20,
how'll | get out-how'H ] get out?
Where's the stairs? | can't.see them!
Look out. The window-the window!
Jump--jump!"
Then she would spring forward in
her bed as if she We're actually jump
ing again from the burning building.
-Four attendants held her down.
This went on at regular intervals, in
spite of the efforts to soothe and quiet
her.
With the memory of the High street
horror fresh in their minds, the firemen
WOIhtu USSDti dlcly " tultI Liz pullQ-
ing in case men or women had
been hemmed in or overcome by the
smoke, The spread of the flames was
so rapid that the second and third
floors were burned out in a remarkably
short time.
Only the high pressure lines, brought
int play by pipemen a few minutes
the first companies arrived. pre-
vented the fire from spreading.
The Myler Works have occupied the
building about eight months. Mr.. My
Ter, who was former superintendent of
the Hoffman P%arrafine Works, prior to
the time of the Waverly street fire,
the new business in the Nassau
street building with a Mr.. Richmond as
manager.
On New Years Day Mr.. Myler with
drew from the firm and Mr.. Richmond
and his son had control.
Robert Nitcher. who has been engi-
neer in the building for two years,
that he was in the Myler Works
about FIVE minutes before the fire
broke out. He stated that the only
people at the Myler Works were Mr..
Richmond and his son, three men and
two women employees. Mr.. Nitcher
said neither Of the big wallpaper
rollers we're working when he was in
the factory. The men were cleaning
up the place.
Nitcher declared the rollers were
never allowed to attain more than SS
degrees of heat, but M of the fire.
men asserted that when he touched
the roller he pulled his hand away
quickly to avoid being burned.
Heat was conveyed to the works
from the Exhaust pipes of the boiler
room.