New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-26

carried unconsciou. to the street
Neither could be revived.
More thrilling even than this dual
leap 10 death was the rescue Of Miss
Ada Goldberg, twenty-five, Of 1853 Hous-
ton Street. She was one of the women
who fed from the Kevitz factory, but
as soon as she reached the roof she
became separated from her companions.
While they were leaping into life net
stretched atop the tenement, or were
being carried to safety over longer lad
ders that had been brought, she
crouched silently against the ledge OF
the building which overlooks Lafayette
Street.
At last she found herself alone on
the roof. Great clouds of smoke arose,
and the first tongues Of flames had be-
gun to sift through the roof. She
lifted herself over the coping. and,
hanging only by her fingers, screamed
until she attracted the attention of the
hundreds on the tenement house roof.
There was no ladder long enough to
reach TO the perilous ledge on which
she chung. Finally, Fireman John
Walsh leaped from the roof of the
burning building. Other fremen threw
him a scaling ladder He then slowly
began TO make his way to the roof,
changing the position Of his ladder at
each story.
He seized the hysterical woman in
his arms, then commenced his danger
Gus descent. When he reached win
dow on the sixth floor a jet of fire
spurted from a window just beneath,
barring his downward climb. He start
ed to ascend again, still carrying Miss
Goldberg in mis- arms, but the flames
had already began TO lick the coping
above.
He and the woman he was saving
waited nearly a quarter Of an hour on
the sill Of the sixth story window
while fremen from the tenement roof
played their hose on the blaze at the
window Just below. Then he continued
his descent. There was no ladder
bridging the gulf between tenement
house and loft building when he
reached the fifth floor window and he
had to swing Miss Goldberg by her
hair 10 waiting fremen. Her scalp
was injured, but she was not harmed
by fire.
Fireman's Daring Work
Bessie Lazar, seventeen, and her sis
ter Lena, both Of 274 Houston Street,
were carried to safety by Patrolman
Dennis Riley. Both were trapped at
the third floor as they were descending
the fire escape and dropped uncon-
scious. Their clothing was aolaze when
Riley reached them. BE smothered the
blaze with his coat.
Seven men employees Of the Very Best
Steam Laundry, which occupied the
seventh floor of the building, were still
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of them made their escape by the stair
way; others rushed to the roof TO
travel across ladder bridges to safety
A score Of women employed in the
laundry had left the building only
short time before the fire broke out
Blaze Damages 100000
So far as is known, the blaze had is
origin on the second floor OF the build
ing. occupied by the Eagle Pants Com
pany. Fire Chief Kenlon estimated the
damage at 100000. Police Commits
sioner ard Mrs. Woods arrived soon
after the blaze had started;
The blaze that destroyed the Greene
Street loft building, was discovered at
1890 o'clock. This building was Occur
pied entirely by hat manufacturers,
and the FIRE had its origin in the Henry
Kappler & Co. loft, on the top floor.
Samuel Kasner, twenty-four, Of 2l2
East iO5th Street, was trapped on the
second floor and dived TO the paved
courtway beneath. He is at Hudson
Street Hospital, where it Is feared he
cannot live. Fireman Frank Shamburg
was buried beneath a mass Of falling
debris on the first floor and was serl-
ously injured. Fireman Christian u.
Hoffman received lacerated hand.
The damage was estimated at $aO'ooo.
So scarce was the available apparatus
that one engine which has been in the
fire service thirty-fve years was rolled
out of Hook and Ladder No. l2's house
II broke down before it had reached
the burning building,
Last night was the first time In
seven gears, fremen say, that two four
alarm fires have been In progress at
the same time.