New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-01
EIGHT DEAD IN
INCENDIARY FIRE
s,oOO in Gems Owned by
One Victim of Tenement
Blaze Lost.
SEVERAL IN PANIC
RUSH TO DEATH
FLAMES Trap Tenants on Fourth
and Fifth Floors-Probe
Cause of Horror.

$50, men and three women met oea'h
.s,crdav in fire. apparently the WORK
,ncendiary. which consumed the
.,uinped five story tenement house
IA Is Monroe street
-. fourth and fifth floors save up most
~ victims. They were identified as;
-.,gsx samuel. slStyfour.
tCCCrDrJN israel. thirty-fNe
gtPfkN Barney. eishteen, .,,.~ 81,
KAPl.AN. Mrs. he0N'' "'''
psrreg and Of
DIN Louis. siNteer
sNazzlN Gusse nineteen
,,-rrSgERG Isaac, nifty.
sM,EEllssRTRG Mrs Pearl. his Vife
Investigations are now being prosecuted
A., she Fire Marshal and Commissioner
49, J. Murphy Of the Tenement House
n.,sr,n,ent TO learn the cause az the
blaze.
tf,u long the fire was under way before
"a. tenants discovered IL IS not known.
~, a. 4 o'clock in the morning, when a
.olcsrnan. two blocks away. saw evidence
- the blaze and ran 10 the house, he
,ound ffty thinly clad men and women
.,,bered in fear on the second floor fire
escsne. They were crowded together and
screamins-
pstrelmen O'Neil and Murray, Of the
Madison street station, then did heroic
,ork one standing on the others shout
se-s until O'Ncil could get near the es-
cape. Then he passed the tenants down
10 the sidewalk.
This was none too soon, for after the
rescues had been made flames burst from
,',e second floor windows. and this specta-
Gle. giving the other tenants their first
real idea OF the situation. caused a
greater panic than before.
In frenzy Of fear. Gussie Mazzin, nine
teen who lad assisted the policemen in
The rescue Of her parents, saw that there
was no chance Of getting out by way Of
the fro escape. and ran down the stair
way into smoke and flame She was
burned 10 death.
Two alarms had been sent in, and a
number OF ladders were raised against
he building. Though greatly handicapped
the hremen made several more rescues,
but II would have been nothing short Of
walking into death for the firemen TO
have entered the fameswept building.
Two hours passed before a search for
the dead could be made.
The bodies were taken 10 the Madison
street station which was soon crowded
With weeping, hystericsl men, women and
children. One Of the most excited persons
was lsadore WeisbeTg. whose aunt and
uncle had been burned TO death. lie said
that when he awoke he found them roll
ing on the floor lie noticed. he said. at
the time. that Mrs Wcisberg had around
her neck cord holding A chamois bag
containing 5000 worth Of jewelry. This
bag was not on the body when he saw IT
IN the station house.
About twenty persons were slightly
burned or injured but the only persons
requiring hospital treatment were Meyer
Rcsensweig. seventeen; his mother,
Sarah: Hyman Penn. thirty-four: David
Lubinsky. hfty-three. and Esther Mos
kowitz. fifty eight Miss Moskowitz was
taken 10 the House Of Relief; the Others
10 Gouvcrneur Hospital
Commissioner Murphy. shortly after his
Investigation had been instituted, issued
statement, saying the building COM
piled In all respects with the provisions
Of the law except for some minor sanitary
defects, which had no relation to the
catastrophe