The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-05

place. The nremen saw that the young
nurse. who had come to the Tag home
only a few hours before, had lifted Mrs.
Snevely from the bed and had made "A
brave effort to rescue her.
Anna Cain and Lizzie cain had no
nance whatever to escape. The fire
had reached the fourth floor and was
raging In their room, undoubtedly. be-
fore they shook off the numbness Of
sleep. They died in their beds.
The extraordinary fact about the fire
was the savage ripidity with which 1t
spread upward through the house. 1t
was 2H5 A.. NJ when it began and II
was only $40 \. VI. when the aremen
and police were able To enter the ruin
and climb the charred stairway.
Or. Tag was among the first to arrive.
lie was in time to see his sister Caro-
line appear upon the roof with their
mother. With Policeman Friel OF the
Gates avenue station the doctor rushed
into the house occupied by James ~
~Tregarthen and family. at 3il Hancock
street. next door To his mothers home.
They ripped a heavy shutter from one
OF the windows in the Trogarthen house.
carried II to the root and threw 1t across
the four foot gulf between the Ire
garthens and the Tags. The doctor
crossed over the bridge, lifted his
mother in his arms and handed her
across the gulf into the arms of Friel.
She was carried Immediately to Dr.
Tags home. where yesterday she was
under the influence of sedatives.
N~eighbors. including Mr.. and Ms. Don
c. Seitz. who live at 237 Hancock street,
all OF whom were intimate friends nf the
Tags. were inexpressihly shocked ny the
tragedy and placed themselves at tn"
disposal OF Dr. Tag 70 do whatever
could be done.
Last night Mrs. Tag had recovered
sufficiently to talk to her son about the
terror she had passed through. Her
first words to her son when sho re-
covered consciousness were: Did Caro-
line escape"
The doctor could only shake his head
mo" az he turned away. He learned
from his mother after II while exactly
how nobly Caroline had behaved.
Apparently the defective Insulation
lighting wires running through the
wooden partition separating the halfway
from the drawing room on the first
floor was the cause of the lire. 1hat was
the opinion OF chief j. - llammItt ot
the Fire Prevention Bureau. tn. wiring
WAS installed by ~ \. p~ckcrhHuscn, a
brother of Mrs. Tug. who conducts an
electrical establishment az 1913 East
Ninth street, Manhattan.
Il have been IN the business Slucc
1850" said Mr.. ork.rhnus"u YESTERDAY,
and this is the first time IN my recol-
lection that anything like this happened
in = house wired hy my men. ! fool
Is Il never wanted 20 wire another
house
Della NaruCN, the cook employed hy
Mrs. Tag. might have lost h"r lfr ~
the others did. had L not hccu that for
the first time IN tho ten years size dtd
worked for the family she ~lcp; ct her
own home instead Of in her room eft th"
Tag. She went Ia the thcdt ON
Thursday uiglt and Nould have returned
To- the Tag home" except that hcr mother
~. III and she wanted to holm Iu Tire
, uursiu. when she Went around tn
, ilaucock street early Yesterday moru' =
to- prepare breakfast sac learned f. the
first time what had happened
pnc nrcmtu. James STARK, waS over
conc by smoke and was cUt about the
,1cr and head 10y falling glass. Three
persons who volunteered To- htlr the fire
men suffered similar slight injuries. but
did not leave their names with the
police.
tasimir Tas died on September 81,
1919. leaving an estate valued 1t =
900. Uu0. lie wa for many years rr"Si-
l"ut Of IN. GcrmIu- American Savings
Rank ~ BROOKLYN and btd large I'M
forests In tobacco lie "Nucd also much
real estate in RrooklHu and Manhattan.