New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-11
s DEAD, s INJURED
IN TENEMENT FIRE
Old Structure Burns to the
Ground-Tenants Flee
i'm Panic.
FIREMEN AND POLICE
SAVE MORE THAN 100
Kenlon Blames Construction OF
Building and Passion for
Feather Beds.

An oldtime tenement house reapeo its
toll OF death early yesterday morhine'
when the five story building at " Essen
:; burned to the ground. The ton was
eight-six women, two men
Anothcr victim is dying in the GouVer-
ncur Hospital. while FIVE others are also
there suffering from serious burns Inc
dead:
Boyerkcfsky. Jacob. twenty
Gayner. Mrs, sixty.
Gayner. Isidor. twenty-five. her SON
Levine. Anna. forty-fve, died IN 1ou"-
crneur Hospital.
Kaplan, Mrs. Ida, twenty-three'
Schoen Mrs. Rose, forty-nVe
Shlifka, Mrs. Sarah, sixty.
Woman unidentified.
The seriously injured:
Greenberg. Samuel, twenty-five; jumpeo
20 rear ward from third floor skull irac-
tured: at Gouverneur Hospital; VIII oie'
Greenberg. Mrs. Samuel; badly burned
at Governor Hospital.
Levine, Jacob, forty; at Gouverneur
Hospital: badly burned.
Levine. Albert. fourteen; son or jacob
at Gouverneur Hospital; burns.
Levine. Benjamin. eight; badly burned
at Gouverneur Hospital
Levine Dorr. nine months: at GouVer-
neur Hospital: badly burned.
Policemen and firemen showed notaoie
beroism. frequently risking their lives IN
rescue work rendered more difficult oy
the panic which seized the people living
in the tenement. Together they oroush'
more than one hundred persons safely
out of the building. which was burning
like so much finder
Fire Chief Kenlon was quickly on the
scene: but, as he watched the flames leap
from floor 10 floor, he summed up the
situation in the remark, This is announcer
of The oldtime tenements reapinS us
death toll"
Shortly before 4 O'Clock yesterday morn
ing. Della Shapiro, who lived with her
father in two rooms on the first moor IN
the rear. smelled smoke and. opening
the door leading into the hallway heard
the cracking of flames. She gave the
alarm to the nearest policemen
Before the flremen came the fire es-
canes were crowded with a mass OF fight
ing. terrified men. women and children.
The weaker ones were trampled underioot
as the stronger fought their way down TO
the street
Fireman John Gillen fought his way 70
the fourth floor and brought Jacob Levine
unconscious. out in his arms. fireman
of Hook and Ladder II found little Dora
Levine UNCONSCIOUS on the second hoor
and carried her TO the street he refused
10 give his name. Acting Deputy Cmel
pevanney did gallant work until names
ate the fourth floor stairway from under
him and he dropped ten feet. lnJurlng
his wrists. He was also painfully burned
but insisted on returning to duty. "a
trolmen Barnett La Batagalie, huhn'
Robertson and Manrook risked Their
lives more than once.
Mrs. Gayner had climbed out on the fire
escape on the fourth floor with her two
sons when she remembered her savings
and went back to get them Isidor Gay
ner followed his mother, and both were
SO badly burned that they died on the
way TO the hospital Moses. the other
son. Jumped 10 the escape on the thlrd
floor and was saved. Mrs. Sarah Buch-
man, cripple. was rescued from her
room on the second floor.
In statement made by kenlon after
the fire he said: The fire started in a
quantity of rubbish in closet under the
stairway 1t spread so rapidly that per
sons on the fifth floor had no chance.
These people are crowded into small
space. and have passion for feather
beds. In almost every instance the
feather bed is laid on top OF excelsior.
and frequently there are five such beds In
one room. My men waded in feathers TO
their knees.
The construction Of the building Is at
fault. The partitions form veritable hues.
Fire tears through them faster than a
man could run. The law requires glass
panes In the upper half OF all doors lead
ing into halls. The cheap glass gives way
at the first blast OF heat, and another
series OF fues is created. The law should
he changed TO provide for wired glass
which would withstand heat