The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1902, Page 10

bave suffered internal injuri THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 19, 1902. Six DEAD IN TENEMENT HOUSE FIRE-TRAP; FLOORS OF THE ESCAPES OF One Boy Saved by Being Hurled Into a! Net—Twenty Persons! Rescued Through a Scuttle to Be Forced Open) Life Saving Roof Which Had from the Outside —Quick Tragedy at No. 35 Essex Street To-Day. street. tenements where a fire night o' r day means death to some of the luckless people obliged to herd therein. In an incredibly short time the blaze building, and when the firemen made the wreck they found the bodi women. Twenty persons were sav presence of mind of two neigh tle in the roof. a THE DEAD AND MIS LIST OF THE DEAD. POLOOCHIN, MRS. ANNA, body found on roof. Identified in El- ridge street station by her hus had gutted the their rounds of es of four children and two} | ed from suffocation by the! bors, who forced open a scut-' SING AT ESSEX STREET FIRE. | LEIBOW! ola. ch unidentified. MORRIS, three years charred bodies of children band, Bernard Polochin, who in believed to have become inanne Sissi from the shock. R KNOPF, ANNIE. KNOPF, ROSE, aged three, wh LEIBOWITZ, JULES, five years mother, Annie, wan alno bh pened to S death, ——_—$§_+>-___ ‘ DETAILS OF THE DEADLY TENEMENT-TRAP HORROR. When it was supposed that a fire had oven extinguished in the big} tenement house at No. 35 Essex street | to-day, without the loss of a life and after a boy had been caught in a fe net, firemen who went through | the building to discover the cause of the blaze, found on the roof the charred body of a woman. | Later the dend bodies of another | woman children found, ! Boy Dropped to Safety. Soon after the fire was dis-overed an aged men appeared at the fourth story window holding in his arms an eight-year-old boy. He was making | Preparations to hurl the boy out of the window as the flames and smoke and four were | | came nearer to him, but the crowd | ,, motioned him back. Wolf Youker, a neighbor, scaled a fire-escape, ran like a cat over the ledge of the building and grabbed from the old man’s arms the bey. Below him the firemen, also having seen the mun and boy, had stretched the life net. Taking deliberate aim, Youker aurled the boy downward As the body touched the ne the firemen pulled out and the boy was bounced uninjured to the street ding they had been overcome by*| dense smoke und had fallen to the floor, When carried out they were near ly dead and were carried to a drux | Store, where restoratives were app They will recover. | Broke Open Roof Scutt David Rose and Nathan Moss, dents of the neighborhood, bel all of the tenants could not x the building by the street ran over geveral roofs unt!l they were on top of the burning bullding They found the scuttle nailed down, ind after much hammering they broke it en ‘There, crowded on a little ladder and huddied Into the dark and emoke-flled corner, were a score of persons, mostly women and children, who were slowly becoming suffocated by the thick smoke which was coming up through the halls from the fire below resi ving that out of doors, Men had made way for the women nd children, and shoved them closer to the closed scuttle. It was their only nee, that some one would happen to think of the roof and release then few more minutes and they wou n dead, Rose and Moss lifted the peop! and carried them to neighboring where they wero resuscitate Fire Due to Exploston. first intimation of the fire w # small explosion in Gross's paint shop. This was followed by a heavy cloud of which completely filled the lower nding {ts way tnto the hall it through the entire five-story bulld The The boy was Morris Rosenberg each floor four to eight families years old, and the old man wh. had A and in each family the pollec Tied him to the window was his grand-|satd there were several children, many father. The other members of the fam-| of n having six or seven dren My had escaped {The panle within the bullding during While the thousa: of excited people | the interval of the fire was intense, the streets cheered went into the who had gather the fremen other fir building, hearing the af who were evidently unable to get out The fire started in the furniture and paint shop of Isaac on the first floor. Hir store ated from the back room, pled by Sigmund Moses and his wife and thelr grana daughter. Fought the Fire with « Broom. Working their way through the smoke ad fire the firemen found Moses and his wife fighting the fire in their dark little room with a broom. Their granddaugh- ter, Miss Hortense Berliner, of No. 872 Hudson avenue, Brooklyn, who was Vis iting them, was unconscious on the floor, ‘The flames were creeping cloue to her. The three were carried to the street. Mrs, Moses was badly burned about thie face, arms and body, and after first ald had been applied on the street, she was sent to Gouverneur Hospital, where ft was said her condition was serious. Her husband was not so seriously in- fured, and after being attended by am Dulance surgeons remained at the scene of the fire. The granddaughter was re- Suscitated and was sent to her home in Brooklyn. Jacob Moskovitz, a resident of the tenement-house in the rear of the burn- Ang bullding, tried to descend from his oom on the third floor on a fire-enoape At the back of the house. He but One arm, and the hand is missing from that. In descending ne fell and was found unconscious in the areaway the rear of the burning building. He wes curried to the street, where Mt was fouhd that his one arm was broken, his beard bumed off and his fase and body badly scorched, He may He Was gent to Gouverneur Hospital ‘Two Chi! a Unconacio Ap moing out of the building, after been through the rooms several Firemen Martin, McAuliffe and found the two children, aged A report Mrs. Moses, who tal, had been unab quantity of Jewelry concealed tn her r¢ Police scene of spread in the sent to the to save rowds that hospi a large nd money ashe had reserve: the fire stations, This the crowds in greatest excitement prevailed throughout the neighborhood. Women and men became hystertcal in the streets, and ambu- lance calls were sent in continuous}, ‘Cho interior of the tenement-house, in were from a tiled to the number of to hold the rear, was burned out, causing a damage which the police estimated at about $6,000. Luckie: owilte Children, Vhe bodies of the four chiidre from the fire are those of Leloowita's family. Palochin was at work when he heard { the fire. When he reached Essex street and was unable to find his wife he was told that the body of a woman had been taken to the Eldridge street station, He ran and looked at the dead body He told of his recognition of the body’ by 4 loud shriek and would have fallen on the charred corpre had not he been taken Natha there caught by the police. His emotion was so Intense that h ould not control f, and the police belleved that ‘ock had unsettled his mind ty of old woman taken rear of the top floor was as that of Mrs. Anile Knopt after resculng two of her children. Fushed bick to save # money wh she Js supposed t in her : as bur death nthe fire nd. floor ies. He w uverneur Mospital condition js serious Wooden Eacapes—sout Acting Battalion Chiet was tn _commi di floors of the rear fires wood, contrary to law The scuttle which Was roof should have been Aker wh Cloned, Brogan, who vered ft the apes were of clowed on ch opened iw Inw preseribes Ms ¥ » A MMi h street station, was une of the engaged avout the firs went Into the hallway of No. it Easex street, adjoining the burning in the; | Six lives were sacrificed to-day ina fire at No. 35 Essex The tragedy was in one of those typical ramshackle and Thursday. and who the pe Neve has detiber vaniet ly teft her home to-day and boarded an express train for Manhattan. This ait morning and last night she received several registered lotters and it is be- | Ueved that she has heard from her miss: it in| | Inspector mix years, respectively, of § Gross, unconscious: on the floor f Atore. * house, fo hurry the a Out Of the e Was el ol & mongrel nd “was bas tn the fl, . 6. patro Trnan boat “the dog oft A WOOD CHOWD IN ESSE> STREET WAT CHUNG: Boe BEING TAKEN FROM BURNED BUILDING: | Haviland, of No. 25 West One Hundred | blond type, and {s sald to be a member MRS. J, LESTER Beautiful Wife of Fa-| mous Actor's Grand- | son Had a Great Many | Troubles, Domestic! and Financially, It Is Said. Mrs. Hleanor Wallack, thirty-one Years old, and the wife of J, Lester Wallack, who is a grandson of Les- ter Wallack, the.old-time actor, com- mitted suicide to-day in her apart- ments, No. 253 West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, by inhaling gas. Tt is said financial difficulties Prompted her to kill herself. At 2 o'clock this morning James Fee, with whom the Wallacks board, smelled gas and traced it to the bath- room. The door was locked, and as he could not force it he climbed around to the window on the fire- escape and opened it. Used Shower Tube. The little room was filled with gas and Mrs, Wallack lay dead In the bath- tub, She had attached a rubber shower- bath tube to the gas jet and placed the other end in her mouth with a paper cone around it Fm hastily Dr. called Frank W. INHALES WALLACK GAS AND DIES, WALLACK, SUICIDE. and Twenty-sixth street, who pro- nounced Mrs. Wallack dead Was a Blond Beanty. She was a beautiful woman of the of a Philadelphia family prominent in the exclusive Rittenhouse Square society of the Quaker City, Mr, and Mrs. Wallack have not lived leading man for Proc! ‘or's One Hundred | o¢ y-fifth street stock company, ding to Manager Washburn, e, was discharged because 1 to get an engagement , and succeeded, it 1s sald, She could not accept, as would give up ‘her ack raised such a disturb- Was arrested in the hotel. 3 S Wallack, an in- happlly together, and a few weeks ago ai eine iateedt brought suit and counter-suit for di- » ball far him, g ti vor in Brook! but, It is said, “Friends of the sulcide differ as to the tehed up their dfferenc out of court motive for her act me say fin eral we ago th were turned | cjal and hers domestic troub tS tof the Hotel Minot, at One Hundred | her to ke Mae lite je trouble ed and Twenty-tifth street and Eighth ave- Mrs. Wallack was formerly the wife fue, it Is “alleged, for non-payment ot}of a Mr. Townsend, of Philadelpnia, jboatd, Their trunks were held by Man-|and has a son anda davehee thas ager Humphreys, Wallack was the|Her father is a wealthy manufactures pianos in the Quaker City. HOLLENGERC'S WIFE LEAVES After Receiving Regis- tered Letters She Hurriedly Boards an Express Train. | .— lea ‘rene ake “a (Special to the Evening World) 1 NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Aug. 19— | Mrs, Clara Mollenberg, the wife of | Henry W. Hollenberg, whose clothing 5 was found in a bathhouse at Coney Isl- —-4\ tue @\ ing nunsang Lloyd Duflean, Mrs. Hollenberg’s son, 4 ivn-~i lene Will go to Fatrehild, Wis., where he will live with his grandfather, N.C. Poster a wealthy | rman It Is said that Mrs. Hollenberg knew very Little of her husband's past 14 when s married him two months 4 in Ch Slice his disappearance she has not wept and has not appeared In the least Jeve that ahe knows where he la. Some New nelle people iy ns has vankihed for ady 1) MANY FROM CUBA ARE QUARANTINED. Only 32 of the Morro Castle’s 108 Passengers Are Allowed to Land for Fear of Yellow Fever. NO. 88 ES STEAMER SEARCHED | FOR A BIG SWINDLER Agent Theobald Expects to} Make Important Arrest and| When the Ward Ine steamer Morro Castle reached dock at Pler 16, Bast River, to: y thirty-t the ngers fled riginal 108 pass: kang plank. Th nid t >y Health OMecer Doty a ner Quarant Hospital at man Island for five da t decide whether they ns of yelloy the rest 1 se tr Havana 4 The ships purser wa 1 with Confiscate Much Valuable Anxious seekers for {ri A rN Property. lives, Of the second cabin ) my | one was allowed t me up With the . | He the firat cabin han halt] Much excitement was caused during | we t to Hoffman Is the examination of , rd] Among ‘the Int ils the Kronpring Wilhelm byt ‘ He Aeven iyonk Cubans’ who have, nae ere ae Were ee at ine ay expected to make SUO-1k St AAURE RS ES 1 A’ | bald went nid varl 45 - . " Y and K ba. i it li and I. Turro will « Uni & v * y of Pennay Jd “We | € Ww je to tnd evt rong, G. de ia Vega and f Velagvo, 1d for which he was lookir {ielals, howeve jr, will go to Ble wrtant arrost w . Je and that much ¥ THOMPSON NOP TO RETIRE, Jory woutd v6 eaten Thompson WIM Sy OM | rape DOE the Potlee Pore renee Police Inspector Thompson, of the] honor of the Borough of Queens, to-day denied most | kille was unveiled here to-day with emphatically that he intended retring eremony 4n the presenve of th from the police force nperor and Empress, the Crown He sald that he was still in good] Prince, Mrederick William, other mem- health and saw no reason for wecking | bere of the royal family and members retirement, of the diplomatic corps. SEX STREET. ‘CATHOLIC WOMENAT MRS, RUBSAM'S BIER Murdered Wife's Body Ese] connelly and Forrest Crossman, sald to corted to Hearse by 160) % non-union workmen employed about : the Edgerton colliery, were shot from Members of Benevolent}ampush to-day, presumably by strikers, League. Funeral services for Mrs, Emma Rub- sam, of No. 480 Willis ayenu: Saturday by her hu nd, Charle ©, Rubsam, who 1 killed him- self, were held ts her late reals 4 at the Chureh of the Immac neeption. Lutheran with interment at the Cemetery, Middle Village, body was in the room immediate, th that in which she was killed, & bower of roses, the gifts of the mnected With the church, of Mra. Rubeaen friends, One ly bene! of which member, and and fifty me rs of the Ci men's Benevolent League from the house to nthe Osho x ation fell in b ched with it to the ehurch. alla {0 ive res use Of thy dense crowd. w about the house and chur thousand persons pushed th Was a hundred surged Three who was! MINERS BLOW UP WORKMAN'SHOME Dynamite Placed in a wrecked early mite. thrown from their beds, injured Wachs, ve been working at the Butler strike began and have since the curred the enmity all of whom are out on strike, of the front door of the h with a percussion cap. RUSH OF TROOPS clal to Th Fvening World.) Shenandoah and take control, Part of the | stat night Pat j strikers in that leader of istrict, ry M ’ fat Lansford, crowds of the strikers have gathered, There ts much excitement, McElmoyle is in jail, fron police, force of Nesquehoning. — TWO NON-UNION MEN SCRANTON, Pa., Aug. foot. Connelly's condition as serious, The men were working on Door Crack of John Wachs’s House in Pittston. pecial to the Evening World.) PITTSTON, Pa, Aug. 19,—John Wachs’s home in Centre street was this morning by dyna- Members of the family were all but none was his two sons and a son-in-law mine in- of thelr neighbors, The dynamite was placed in the crack use and fired The door was wrecked and the parlor of the resi- dence is Jn ruins, —_—>— PREVENTS RIOT MAUCH CHUNK, Pa, Aug. 19.— Crowds of strikers sympa- thizers along Panth this morning saw the tre oh in from welfth Regiment is now ‘quchoning, where last the was shot and killed by Coal and Iron Policeman Har- her detachments are Sharpe's body was taken, dnd at Summit Hill, where large but up to this time there has been no serious violence. Sheriff Gombert to-day went to Lansford. having been brought here by a guard of coal and in addition to the police SHOT FROM AMBUSH, 19,—Mighael Crossman was 80 badly wounded that it was necessary tO amputate his right is regarded a water course near the breaker when a@ bullet whizged close to Crossman’s head, Con- relly says he thought the shot had bee —————__— DROWNED MAN'S BODY FOUND, was en years old, found in ing, by Patrolman Abraham Van sel, He whs about 6 feet 6 ino has light complexion, red 4 blue shirt and light und hint, — ALGER HESITATES, |; 19.—Ex-Becretary Al- he is er aye that fired by mine guards and shouted a w ng. Two more shots followed, a bullet lodging in Crossman’s leg and a chargé of shot shattering Connelly's shoulder, e body of an unidentified man, about the x off Governor's Island this morn- Tas- air and wore 1y to announce way into the church past the police after |his candidacy for the Benate, to succeed the doors had been closed once upon| them, ‘The mass was shortened on ac-| count of the fear of @ panto or accident, |the late Jamgs MoMillan, “I shall resoh ne late Jamge ni! Shall Trach @ decision some waldy Sess nkee aoe SUBWAY BLAST Engineer and Laborers Seriously Burned by Gas Explosion of Sta-| tionary Engine. Five men were seriously burned in an explosion of gas this afternoon from a stationary engine used in the subway work in front of the Grand Union Ho- tely They were: John Fitzpatrick, engineer, of No. 29 West Forty-seventh street Albert Blumb, of No. 64 Murray street, Jersey City. munipaw avenue, Jersey City. An unidentified negro. ‘The enaine had been shut down by Fitzpatrick at noon, It is supposed that gas collected in the ‘voller because the nper was turned off. While the laborers were eating their lunches near the engine Fitzpatrick started to open the boiler door, There was a tremendous explosion and the door of the fire-box was blown wide open. A great sheet of flame ed forth, enveloping the men near by. Per- si on the street were scorched and temporarily blinded by the heat and glare. When the fire had died away the five men lay stretched out unconscious on the street. The negro was revived]! enough to be sent home, but Fitzpatrick was so badly burned tbat a hurry Hospital, He was taken there in a pre- carious condition, ‘The other men were sent to Flower Hospital “Phe boiler was used on the Degnon- MeLéan Contracting Company's section of the tunnel. ‘This was about the sixth accident to happen near the Forty-sec- ond streot portion of the subway. INSANE DETECTIVE RETIRED. Commissioner Partridge Grants Request of Moran’s Wife. Commissioner Partridge to-day placed on the fetired list Detective-Sergeant John Moran, of the Brooklyn Detective Office, This action was taken at the re- , who stated that Aue etoand was hopelessly" tusane in an asylum, $= GETS A CROKER BULLDOG. SARATOGA, Aug, 18.—John J. Scannell has returned here. Richard Croker, jr., dropped in at Saratoga and remained long enough to present a three-months- old son of the famous Rodney Stone fo Mr. Scannell. He will call the bull- dog Wantage. here that the Cudahy Packing Company has sold out to the Packers’ Combine for '§21,000,00 and the new trust will take possession Sept. 1. t Of Wash and China Silks, President never more present moment ors in Wall Reduced from $4,00 West Twenty-third Street, FIVE HURT IN SCHWAB IS ON WAY TO EUROPE of United States Steel Trust in a Hurry to Go Abroad. (Special to the Evening Wort.) ALTOONA, Pa., He is travelling in his spe- Hans Friedrickson, of No. 787 Commu-| “al ear attached, and mnless hin nipaw avenue, Jersey City. plans are changed he will sail for Helmer Suderstrom, of No. 187 Com-| Burope to-morrow. Mrs. Schwab and a maid accompany him, To a world correspondent who met him at Cresson Mr. Schwab said: “I do not care to discuss these silly stories about me, sick man, do I? am going away for a rest, all I care to say.” I don't look like a Tt is time that I That is Mr. Schwab read with amusement the newspaper accounts of his alleged collapse as he sat in his car, was drawn and tired-looking, slowly about the platform at Cres. Oli, His eye his face was He walked clear, although leaning on a cane, but converse with a number of bis friends, who came to see him off. for an ambulance was sent to Bellevue] be jr, He appeared to good and laughed spirits heartily at references to his illness, When ked if he intended to re- sign from the pe peldeney, of the Steel Trust, he said- say anything bout ‘that—absolulely nothing. I treat such stories 1s not to pay any attenti: “Oh, I don't care to think the best way to n to them.” Joseph Schwab, the brother of Mr. Schwab, will meet him on his arrival at New York. the arrangements for the immediate future movements of the President of the Steel Trvst. Joseph has made all —— SCHWAB NOT VERY ILL, SAYS DIRECTOR. (Special to The Evening World.) PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 19.—A director of the United States Steel Corpdration to-day denied the story had that James his successor. that {Il health 1 Mr. Schwab to resign and ynor had been slated as ome “wilh aries M. Schwab,” he said, ———$_$_— not resign the Presldency of the United CUDAHYS SELL OUT, States Steel Corporation, Affairs be: , twee Mr. Schwab, the directorate and OMAHA, Neb. Aug. 19.—It is stated) the wtockhollers of the concern, were than at the Ambitious manipulate street are responsible for net rumors to the contrary.” harmonious he persvat Stern Brothers will close out to-morrow the remainder of Women’s Summer Shirt Waists 1 51.95 Aug. 19.—Charles . M. Schwab, President of the United States Steel Trust, is a passenger on the day express on the Pennsylvania train due in New York at 8.15 this evening, ¥