Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-18
& PERISH IN FIRE.;
VETERANS HOME IS
SWEPT BY FLAMES

SWIFT BY FLRIVlE5
NETWORK, Dec 16-Six persons
lost their lives, nine others were in
ju~ed and hundreds were driven
from their homes early today in a
series OF fires in apartment houses,
tenements land one hotel in Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn. Today's blaZes
brought the number during the cold
spell since Sunday to more than 100,
making hundreds homeless and caus-
ing heavy property losses.
Tive women and man lost their
lives in a fire which swept through
a five-story apartment house on East
Ninty-eighth streac, near Fifth, ave
uue Five other persons were burned
il. escaping from the blazing build
ne and scores of families living IN
the neighborhOod were driven to the
streets from their homes.
The fire occurred but two blocks
from Mount Sinai hospital and the
attendant noise and confusion awak-
Gned patients, who found the sky
about the institution a quivering red.
| Doctors and nures patroled the
wards, pulling down blinds and as
surfing their patients that there was
no danger.
Five of the dead are women
who were trapped on the up
! per floors of the house. Al
| though firemen made heroic efforts
to rescue them, the flames swept
| through the building with such speed
that the victims were scarcely able
% leap from their beds.
The bravery of a 19-year-Old youth,
Fred Nugent, saved an entire family,
Awakened by smoke, he ran into the
room of his mother, Mrs. Anna
Nugent, and carried her to the street.
Entering the building he dragged
his sisters, Barbara and Antoinette,
to safety and then for the second
time plunged into the flaming house.
This time he was driven back by the
flames as he attempted to enter the
room of his uncle, Edward Russell,
who had been weakened by a long
/ illness.
Meanwhile, firemen, who also
sought to rescue Russell, had dropped
a rope to him at the window Of his
room, from a higher floor on an adj
joining building. The aged man
clutched the hope, but his grip gave
way and he fell five stories to his
! death.
| -Four persons, including two chill
| dren, were severely burned in a fire
| which broke out about the same time
IN four-StorY dwelling on Sixty
sixth street, Brooklyn. The blaze
| spread to an adjoining dwelling
| house, driving twelve families from
their homes in both buildings.
Guests in an Eighth avenue hotel,
/ patronized largely by actors, were
! routed from their beds by a fire
which startc few hours after the
! Ninety-eiShth street blaze. Many of
! the guests were forced to make their
escape by way of the hotel roof
! TWO VETERANS DIE, TWO
| INJURED WHEN HOME BURNS
BEAUNOIR, Miss, Dec. 1.-two
| Confederate veterans were burned
to death and two were injured when
fire destroyed a dormitory of the
jefferson Davis Soldiers home at
2:34 a. m, today
The dead; +. J. Sharpe, rs, Co
lumbus, Miss, and J. z. Hunter, 80,
! Laurel, Miss.
L IAS 4IlJUi gu. joe SduteGS, LAUDER
dale, Miss, feet burned: Clement
Cox, Harrison county, feet and
hands burned.
Twenty were asleep in the one.
story frame building when the
structure was discovered in flames.
/ Volunteers fought their way through
the smoke, and carried the veterans
to safety. Sharpe and Hunter could
not be reached, and their charrel
bodies were found in bed later. Some
of the veterans went back into the
/ building for their possessions, and
it was only with difficulty that
some were rescued the second time.
| The dormitory adjoined the old hos.
! Dital, occupied by % women, aged
/ from so to 100 years The hospital
was emptied by volunteers.
! The origin of the fire has not
/ been determined, but it was believed
! due to an open fireplace. The loss
| was estimated At $4,000.
/ The fire was the second ira gedy
/ to visit the old soldiers this month
An epidemic of dystentery. believed
/ to have been caused by infected
milk, took the lives of six veterans.
and sent about Sc more TO the hos
{ lltSi Tor treatment
question to a commissjo nfor settle
/ neut.
He declared he favored the I'm
derwood bill over the Norris bill.
( but since many senator's had told
him they did not feel they We're suf
! fIciently informed on the subject.
Re would favor turning the question
! over 10 a commission.
/ Two proposals 10 refer Muscle
! Shoals 10 a committee are before
;he senate. Senator Wadswortl,
/ New York. who has Endorsed the
I Eiooker-White Atterbury profit
sharing proposal. has offered an
amendment 10 the house Muscle
Shoals measure now before the ser
lte TO leave the settlement of the
problem 10 commission, which
would he empowered 10 make final
decision,