The evening world., 1922-01-23
BRIDE OF Is DIES IN BLAZE;
HUSBAND FATALLY BURNED
IN EFFORT TO RESCUE HER
OH Heater Upsets in Room
and Flames Spread to Bed
) Where Couple Slept.
OTHER TENANTS SAVED.
One Girl Unconscious From
Fright in Early Morning
Blaze in the Bronx.

. Mrs. Rebecca Schneider, eighteen
years old, q bride of two weeks, was
burned to death in her bed during
fire at No. 749 linton Avenue, the
Bronx, at $50 A. NJ. to-day.
Her husband, Dav'd Schneider
twenty-five yearsROli, was so badly
burned in repeated efforts to save her
that it was said in Lincoln Hospital
he could not recover.
During the fire Policeman Eugene
Bacagilni found, Henrietta Kose
seventeen, who 9ives IN the second
floor helpless in the second door hall
way and carried her to the street She
was suffering so from shock. due to
fright, she was taken to Lincoln
Hospital.
The Schneiders had just fitted up
} n five-room apartment on the top
floor Of the four-story building. fol-
lowing their honeymoon. The fire
escapes on the building are on the
outside of what was their living room.
- Their bedroom was behind the living
room.
An oil heater was left on last night
in the living -eom. Schneiders con-
dition was such when he was rescued
\ that all he could TEX was that the
heater turned over. and he was
burned about the face and arms try
ing to put out the flames. The oil
spread over the floor. and he ran to
the fire escape and shouted for help
His cries aroused the other eleven
families in the house. and most OF
the neishborhood. Policemen Gordon
Guderman and william Kelly of the
Morrisania Station sent in an alarm
and ran into the building to help out
the tenants.
Many Of them had run to the roof
some were on the fire escapes, and
others were shouting rom windows
Nobody at first seemed to know
where the fire was.
When Schneider saw the police
men running into the building. he
dashed back to rescue his wife. Evil
IDENTIFY she had been asleep and die
not know the heater had caught fire
, Schneider found the burning oil Gao
spread so he was cut off from the
bedroom, but be .a.lde several at
tempts to get through. only to fal
back after stnhaling flames. Police.
men forced the doqf of his lvinl
room and dragged him out just II
time to prevent his perishing with hii
bride.
Truck No. 10. under Lieut.. Hamil
ton Rider, came as flames begaI
shooting out Of the windows. Lad
ders were run up to the roof and thu
A. different floors. and men, women ant
~ children were carried or assisted T.,
the street, all of them 30 scdntil!
I dressed they had to be rushed int
/ the homes of neighbors because o
the freezing weather.
The wind was high and waite
froze almost as rapidly as 1t touche,
the house. and Battalion Chief Whit
sent a second alarm that brough
Deputy Chief Carlock. It was no
until everybody was out of the nous
and the blaze was under control tina
fremen by throwing a barrage o
water, were able to get into tn
Schneider bedroom. The brides bod
vas almost entirely consumed.
Ae fire was confined to the to
floor apartments and did $4,000 dam
age. The police of the Morrisanl
Station did good work finding shelter
hot coffee and food. for the person
who were driven out of their home
" temporarily.