New-York tribune., 1922-05-01
Woman and Girl, 9, Per.
ish in Apartment House
Blaze That Scatters 30
Richmond Hill Families
Civilians Join iii
Rescue of Victims
Panicstrickcn Dwellcrs
Restrained From Lean:
Five Fircmcn Injured

ore woman and nine.ycar.old oi,l
lost their lives IN a fire which swcnt
through a four.storr apartment house
a. Atantlc Avenue and Hath Street
Richmond Hill, Long Island. last nient.
More than twenty persons wc,c in
jured by falling glass or were over.
come by smoke. Many members of t!.o
thirty families that lived in the house
we're carried from, tnr burning struct
ure by Gremcn. policemen and civilians,
Tic dead arc
Mrs. ". Cunningham, sixty five wears
old
Edith Kroncnberg. nine years old.
lAc,r hodics we're taken to the Mary
immaculate Hospital
Runs Two Blocks to Give Alarm
A :oumc man and gil. ~cro walk
ipS II Atlantic Avenue III the evening.
As the anproachrd itA;n St,ss,, thny
say .'@okc blowing from AZ open
window on the top floor Of the house.
The young man left his companion and
'an two block TO ..lc boz, where nc
sent IN the FIRST alarr,
! he tonr.:tory building. before the
arrival Of the first apparatus. vas
burning from roof 10 cellar. bIacA
clouds Of cmohc Y"!.cd from tho rooi,
attracting crowd. which :hc police
had difficulty in keeping III check.
Some OF the fnmilics were preparing
to retire Tor the night. Movt Of these
ncrsons. cushing into Railways that had
filled suddenly WITH ...:.oke, found 81
tho usual Ways of esrcs3 cut of.
Within few minutes the window. In
the from, were crowded with women
and children vino had nc"n rahlc 20
escape The Grst hoo' anl oder con
pany tc orrivc put zip cxtens sion ladders
and carried ocveral women and children
to safety.
Fourteen Taken to hospitals
ihr tlrst fircnIrn 20 arrive turHc'i j.,
second ard third "larrr AT once \
fourth alarm va. sounded before Enc
Aarcs were under control. Calls 60.
anbu!anccs were scrt to Mary lmmacu
late and Jamaica hospitals. Fcurtce.
persons were so BADLY injured in their
attempts to get cut c* 'hc building that
thcJ wctc t"ken 10 hospitals.
MsnT nf .hn:e Who ;ccUroI nc,,ie \:
aIert:oI rccci"ci their injuries in tho
RI ii which was made through. hal. On
.hc third floor for the :,rr c,care in
tNo rcAr Grr. uo@ocr and children
were o"crcomc hT panic. and i: WA
"'th rros, difficulty that tho 'irercn
guided them fror, the building.
Tho lirct womar 10 crawl tl'rouci,
THE lnl"" to tni:; fire cscApe WAS Nix.
Ed;th Ca2,i!ta. twcnt' .thrrc %cars old.
A, ;hr reached ia" :ror ralcony nc
tainted Fireman Mari. jaw" ta notlc,H:,
h(r peril. cljmheI n.>t rf iAc 'ir>t laJ-
ccrr raised in the rear "f tho building
and raIr'cd~ttc r'rl To tho ;trcc,. SD.
"'- 'atca 20 Mar" imNac i4la:c Hot
rits!.
Women Restrained From Leap
Several women were restrained from
jumping FROM thc third a,! fourtl
floors b.! ;ircmcu. Five tircr,cn vera
injured ~ crcctinS rcscues and tight
ing tho flames
Battalion Chief Moore arrived at .hr
second alarm. The fourth brought llrc
Commissioners Thomas urcnnAn And
"%moky" Zoe Martin. acting chief o. til
depart tIrcn. in the absontc Of tirc Chci
kcnlon, oho l., IN Europe.
lhc fire burned out tho ,m:crior 81
,nc building and n"st of thc thr.:.
ianilics had 70 seek refuge IN othc.
homes in the ncichborhocd
Ds7ut. Five Niarshsl William, Shields
ha" began An invr>t;c cation to ascertain
tho .csu:c OF the bla:o