The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-18
TENEMENT WARNING
AS 5 DIE IN A FIRE
Study Exits Of Your Building.
Is Message Of Commits
siOncr Murphy.
DEATHS WERE NEEDLESS

A f~oIceful warning vas issucd by
Tenement House Commissioner John j.
Murphy yesterday after he had cx-
amined the six story tenement house at
2127 Third avenue, nca" iiGth street,
where i've persons lost their lives and
two were seriously injured In u fire
early In the morning. The warning states
that although egresS from the building
was properly provided and that laws
governing construction had been OBJ
served. had the tenants been prop
erly convcrsant with the means Of
cgrcss no lives would have been lost.
His statement reads IN part:
This fire emphasizes tho need for
tenants taking thought In advance as
TO what. they should do IN case Of fire.
Nc. 2127 Third avenue had party walls,
balcony fire escapes at the rear connect
ing each apartment with windows OF the
adjoining building. The women and chill
drcn vino lost their lives were doubtless
panic stricken and did not think Of any
means of escape hut the stairs.
Reports have been circulated that
the bulkhcad door ,thc closed In exit to
the roof was locked. Information given
me by the lire captain whose company
was on the roof indicated that IT was
not locked but laichcd ON the inside.
Any one going up the stairs to the roof
could have opened it
TuE DEAD.
MIA. JULIA wENz. ~ years Old.
ANA MESH; - Years Old.
AIRS. NETTIE GRoESIiAL. ~ wears old.
IRVING GRDtSHAlr years old.
Lieut.. Frank Gallagher. at the desk
IN the third branch detective bureau.
OIL il6t, street near Third venue. re-
ia. tlN- AN.. ~ hHn aN.Hs ANAs -
A. VI. lie rushed Detectives Dennis
Mahoncy, Ed t%'onroy. Toe Ryan. Her
man Kahn. Morris Grossman and Jack
Cassctti to the place. Tn burning
building Was only a short distance
away. but when the men arrived they
found Il wall Of flame blocking the mar
TOW entry. The detectives dived into
the Names and did 1t SO quickly that
none OF the men received any but
superficial burns.
Although thcv were able to plunge
through the fire, which htd started in
a pile of rubbish in the cellar and
swept ~ the stair well, mushrooming
ont at zach floor, the terrified tenants
were unable to return the same way.
The detectives mad" u human chain
from the sixth floor fire escape to the
escape on an adjoining building. the
Central Hotel. at the northeast corner
OF 10th street and Third aycnuc.
There Is only II short space bet the
two fire escapes. but 1t was with the
greatest difficulty that the men we're
able to pass to safety the twenty-five
persons who had not been able to get
down the stairs.
Mrs. Ncttic ,;rocslal. with her four
ycar-old boy Irving. was found dead
OH the stairway leading to She third
toor. AS their apartment was OF the
second floor II SHOWS that the only
means Of egrcss thought Of usually at
such a time is 10y the stairs. Tn, two
Wcnz Childc~n wcr" found dead OF
the outside OF u bed In their apart
mcnt on the toy iunl. ant tn" mothers
BODY was found =, the door leading
into the hall.
Charles oRrlcn. an undertaken. and
his wife, Carrie. were both carried un-
conscious from their apartment ~ the
top floor by iircmen. Mrs. Gussic Lu-
brcsky. who was III, had sent her chill
drcn OUT to safety but was too weak
TO escape. Sh" was carried down two
flights by Policemen Juhn Foley and
john Mah,,.
Although Smoky Joe Martin found
IL necessary to send i'm a second alarm
60 help tho police reserves cope with the
rcighburhood panic the fire was soon
out and at no timc were tn" adjoin-
ing teucments threatened.