The evening world., 1913-07-29
CHINESE AND WIFE
LOSE THEIR LIVES
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Gallant Rescues by Police
When Flames Sweep ioO-
Year-Old House.
EIGHT PERSONS HURT.
Kettle of Grease in Restaurant
Boils Over and Fire
works Add to Blaze.
EIGHT PERSONS HURT.


ing at No. = Bowery. boiled over to-day
esd started . fire In which two lives
were lost and eight persons hurt.
No. Z Bowery is more than a century
old. Its mut;y. stained walls have
been considered among the old land.
MARKS Of the Bowery as long a. the
Oldest living New Yorker can remem-
Der. Ching woo's restaurant now oc-
cupiss the ground floor. and Chinese
and white women live above. There 10
. rear entrance through an alley. rum
ming alongside No. ~ Doyers street
A dozen or more Chinese were In the
restaurant eating a late supper when
the cook put the pot OF fat on the
stove. The range nre was burning
bsfskly and the pot was soon bubbling.
Before tho cook could get to II. super
heated fat popped over the edges of the
Kettle and set the greasy floor and
wall paper to flaming.
The names licked their way up the
wall to the hundred-y -year-old rafters.
whore Ching Woo had stored a quantity
OF Fireworks left over from q former
celebration In Chinatown. The expiod.
ing fireworks sent the customers
scurryins from the restaurant In alarm.
CARRY OUT INJURED COUPLE
AND RETURN FOR MORE.
The ancient timbers burned almost
IKE paper and the biass was bursting
Through 20 the second floor by the time
the fireworks began 10 whirr and pop
Policeman Grimm Of the Elisabeth street
station. who heard the commotion.
turned In an alarm at Bowsry and
Division street. A. he ran back to the
nss he was Joined by Policeman Daily
OF the Oak street station.
The policemen climbed to Q window
balcony and from there to the nre-
escape landing at the second floor,
whore the drop ladder Was lowered.
Entering q. window. they found Chu
Ian and his white wife. Mabel. partly
overcome by sm9ke and slightly burned
Grimm and DAILY carried the pair down
the drop ladder Into Ollins's drug store
at No. Bowery. where DR.. Robinson
was summoned from Gouverneur Hos.
pItaL He treated the Chinese and HE
wife and then dressed the burned hand,
Of the policemen.
Whils this rescue was being made At
the front OF the building. Police Sergeant
Barnes and Andy Biip Of No. II Sullivan
street climbed together to the second
Moor In the rear. where they found
se1is 0ionsy. who Il said to bs known
u ehs neighborhood a. philadelphia
Kitty" and Mrs. sohwatter.
These women were also carried 10
0ni6s's store. Barnes and Bib vrap.
ping blankets around the women ana
e1eo swathing thsmsslvss' Ia blankets,
Sneisn fashion, for the dash through
smoke ana hrs to the window. sergt.
Safnes Was unhurt. but both the women
an1 Blip required DR.. Robinson's at.
tontiens.
Engine Company No. . was the nrs,
- ne hrs department TO arrive and
1oout. Barnes. It, commander. seeing
~ sxtsnt Of the hrs. sounded Q second
alarm. which brought . reinforcement
- apparatus and both Chief Kenlon and
Assistant Chief rurpsnny.
oRv "rHgRe ARE MORE pGoPLe
INSIDE"
The men Of Engine Company No. 9
Vess getting Into action in the rear OF
~e"~'"s' "'ee tuo uIo was worst.
woeo the cry went up. There are more
Osopis inside"
Engine Company No. was Just
o6eeving and Lieut.. Ross Of that orgs nj.
se0on. accompanied BY two OF his men
-oarnstt and 0rssland-dashsd into the
euiidins. Pipsmen Of No. :. With thei,
oeee aimed through windows. played or
the men Of No. - they struggled up.
OeAafe
On the third h0or they found etever
Lee. . Chinese; his white wife. Ivy Leo
aS1 Fanny Miller. The flames wer,
sweeping about the beds on which IN,
three lay unconscious
Each Of the nremen picked I'd one o.
the limp forms and began the descen
Of the stairs. the pIpemen of Ma . .,,I
.prayinx them with their ho.. =. ,h.,
weht down the steps. When the res