The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-01-27
FIRE IN BROOKLYN TENEMENT
KILLS WOMAN AND A BABY;
z OVERCOME; 10 RESCUED
Eight Children and Their Par
entS Carried Down Ladders
by Firemen.
'STAlRWAYS CUT OFF.
Victims, Smothered by Gas and
Smoke, Are Found Dead
In Their Beds.
,Irs. Emma Arundel and an orphan

Mrs. Emma Arundel and an orphan
baby, George Obermeyer, a year and
q half old, were smothered to death
by gas and smoke this morning on
the fourth floor of the apartment
house at No. SO Reid Avenue, Brook
iyn, in fire which, though it burned
for only an hour, required all the skill
of the firemcn to rescue other occu-
pants of that floor. They rescued ten
by carrying them down scaling lad
ders to the floor below, whence they
were passed from fireman To fireman
down tail scaling '"at = ,e
81 ct. =.
Two membet of the Arund-i family
got down the fire escape IN the rear,
but were so affected by smoke and
gas that they had to be treated by
an ambulance surgeon.
The fire, which blazed through the
roof within short time after 1t was
discovered, set afoot several rumors,
one of them that twenty-five flremen
had been overcome. This, reaching
Police Headquarters, caused "A call for
three pulmotors from the Brooklyn
Union Gas Company and ambulances
from Beth Moses and Bushwick Hos
pitals. But none Of the firemen fight
ing the blaze was in any way injured
or affected.
Although the cause of the fire has
nat I-N.. i IA
have started on the fourth floor and
was discovered by Patrolman John
Dunn of the Relph Avenue Station.
His alarm brought Acting Chief Kane
with the fire apparptIs and the first
thing the firemen C.i was to raise a
35-foot extension IIGder to the third
floor. Then Firemen Haig, Cart
wright, Frank and Edward Alwell and
Vernoery went up to the fourth on
scaling ladders. There, on the floor
Of an apartment, they found Mrs.
Arundel and the baby dead.
In an adjoining apartment on the
san3 floor they found the family Of
So .nuel and Mary Seileppi and their
ei,ht children, the latter ranging
from twenty to four years. Smoke
flled the entire top moor of the house,
and as the flames had now cut off
the stairway the firemen brought the
entige Seileppi family out by the win
don y carrying them down on the
sea. & ladders to the extension lad
. der on the floor below. The Seleppi
children were: Benjamin, Angelina,
Adolph, Rose, Minnie, John Victor
and Paul. None of these was much
affected by smoke or gas.
Tho two tenants Of the Arundel
apartment who were slightly overcome
and who managed to get to safety
down the rear fire escape soon after
the blaze started were Alfred Ober-
meyer and Mrs. NJ. Randall, daughter
of Mrs. Arundel, DR.. Wetzman. of
Beth Moses Hospital, treated them,
but 1t was not necessary to take them
1 to the hospital.
There were six families living In
the house on the three upper floors.
The street floor was occupied by the
stationery store of Max Meyers, who
with his wife Rose lived in rooms in
the rear. and the barber shop OF
Charles Dileo. The latter lived with
his wife and their three children on
the second floor. Their next door
neighbors were Abraham Nebolsky,
his wife and two children, On the
third floor were Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Goldberg and their three children and
Mrs. Margaret Anchor, a widow, and
her two children. Those living on the
street and second floors got to the
! street without difficulty. Those on
the third floor fled from the burning
building by way of the fire escapes.
The damage caused by the fire was
estimated at $1,000. The Reid Avenue
\ trolley line was tied up half an hour.
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