The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-01
Men Jump From Windows in
a Panic of Fear, Some
Badly Burned.
WAS NO ESCAPE FOR SOME
Flames Spread So Quickly That
Those Asleep Were SuffO-
Gated in Bed.


thirty persons. Syrians. Polacks and Ger
mans were burned and injured in less
than three minutes last night as hre
swept through an old fashioned wood
and brick four story building at 66Green.
wich street. So quickly did the flames
spread through the nimsy building that
almost in a twinkling Of an eye men,
women and children were burned or
singed in frantic rush from their beds
IN the windows. The dead were four
men. a woman and q girl.
The Dead.
DAVIS. MRS MARY. AZ
DAVIS. MINNIE. .. daughter of Mrs.
Mary TItSis
Four unidentified men.
The injured.
BAILEY. THOMAS. ss. hurt jumping
from second floor in Volunteer hospital.
BOEHAI.. JACOB. az, burns and con-
tusions Hudson street hospital.
DISOUCH. NICHOLAS. 40. face and
hands burned. contusions; Volunteer Hos
pital
cut. hands burned: Hudson street hospital.
pEN,HA1ANER. Mrs. CHARLES. hurt
Jumping from third floor; Hudson street
GAi.AsKy. EDWARD. 80. face
KAPIrANsKY. ADAM. 10. face and
hands cut.
SCHEMBERG. FRANK. -. hands
burned Hudson street hospital.
DUCKHElMER. LUDOvICHE, wife Of
Charles Duckhe4mer. taken to Hudson
street hospital badly burned.
nhn,s
BRUzANO. MICHAEL. u burned
about head treated in stref.
MrLRONACH. FRANlH 80. badly
burned on body Hudson street hospital
PRZYMACH. JOHN. 20. burned on
hands and face treated In street.
sOLwAsSAY. EDWARD. 80. burned
about head treated In street.
SwENDAWKO. JOHN. 45. burned on
arms and face treated in street.
The building. which is in what In
known as the Syrian quarter. below
Rector street, was damned with human
beings in a manner that In hardly real
tied nowadays. On the ground floor
was an employment agency and a
tailoring shop The three stories above
was Judging house with five, six and
even ten beds in q single room. II In
estimated that there were eighty five
persons. II not more. in the three
stories.
Blase Quickly Spreads.
The blaze. starting in an explained
manner on the second floor. shot upward
with remarkable swiftness. The parched
rafters. the loose paper on the walls and
the furniture. dry AZ tinder. caught up
the flames like 40 many matches. A.
shouts Of hre awoke the three or four
score persons who were In bed and the
smell Of smoke filled them with fear
there was a wild scramble for safety
The stairs were blocked by flames and
stifiing smoke.
Frantically the dazed persons rushed
10 the windows. The next instant there
was pandemonium as Syrians. POiacks
and Germans shriekcd for help. In less
than half a minute after persons in the
street first saw the blaze every window
facing Greenwich street was filled with
frantic half dressed men and women
Likewise every window In the rear was
jammed with persons seeking safety.
In their desperate fear no one hest.
tatsd on the window sill. Not one oi
them needed the shouts Of warnins
from the people In the street. Men
despite their fear. showed remarkable
agility In letting themselves down from
the window ledge to the shutter below
and then jumping to the street.
Man Psshea on window Ledge.
Others fairly tumbied out Of the win
dows. One man who poised himself oI
window ledge on the third floor for
fraction of second was pushed from
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