The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1904, Page 1

pers PRICE ONE CENT, S Cicculation Books Open to - All. ud | EV VENING. i Ge Dae! M0): = . eae NEW YORK. TUES SDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1904, SS Circulation Books Ope n to 2 “All, ” | vvepeipnteiniieataiiiiliaiieds pRIC KONE CED “FULL DETAILS OF FIRST BATTLE 4 PEROONG ARt HURT IN PANIC AT BRUOKLYN FIRE —_—_——+ ¢2-—___—_. Many Women and Men Are Trapped by Flames on Third Floor of the Brooklyn) Chair Factory, in Waverly Avenue, and a) Wild Panic Ensues. | THE SERIOUSLY INJURED. H BARRETTA, JOHN, No. 53 Morrell street; body harned. | DORDON, yMAS, No. L annon avenue; body harned 75 Clanson avenues leg broken. % Sonth Ferry street; leg broken and body | DORDON, ALB x unknown: body burned. erry street; body burned and tnternal OMAS, fireman attached to Engine Company No. 110) burned t the bod ARTIN, No. G80 Wythe avenue; body badly burned, inter- njar’ lex. A. TERESA, addrenn abou MCARTHY, A fire which started this afternoon in the factory of the Brooklyn! Chair Company at Nos. 118 to 122 Waverly avenue, Brooklyn, was car- ried ona strong east wind to a number of residence houses in the neigh- | Lorhood, and almost before the firemen arrived over fifteen buildings, | most of them old-fashioned frame affairs, were al In the factory seventy-five men and women ¥, imprisoned by the flames and smoke, Twenly of these jumped from front and rear windows before the firemen arrived, and fourteen were taken to the Cumberland Street Hos- pital, where it was afterward said that five of them would die. MANY VICTIM? IN HOSPITAL, Thosé who were taken to the hospital after jumping from the windows were hustled away in ambulances without any effort being made to take ADELE RITCHIE HAS A NARROW ESCAPE, Some had broken arms, others broken legs, and still dthers Cab in Which She Was About to | Step Dragged by a Fright- ened Horse and Two Men Were Painfully Injured. their names. uppeared to be padly burned The Brooklyn Chair Company occupies an old church building which) nwas for many years the home of the Centennlal Baptist Church. It is on| the west side of Waverly avenue, right near the corner of Myrtle avenue. WOMEN GIVE THE, ALARM. The {ull force of seventy-five men and women were at work in the! 4) ylace to-day when the fire started In the cellar, It spread rapidly, for the |’ material, The office force on the first fidbr ‘cr, the typewriter, and Miss Plaid, the | ver, wntil they had sounded an alarm. building is full of Infernal was driven cut at once bookkeeper, would not? They stood at.the foot yelled fire at the ton of the! company and got ont into the street af the « leading to the upper floors and | lungs. Then they collected the books of the) iui | third ad the girls sounded the alarm than the flames shot up ' |! No sooner }) porethie errap= by the stairs, Men and through the floor mnéd ent o women who came down t! to'rs at the first alarm were driven back by ment the terrific heat. Some went to the vr dows Or: Indows, where they jumped. The: on the third floor, however, had a fearful LOST $8 m0 ON was no possible escape for them but by jumping, uJ t that 1 mid not walt for the firemen to arrive vd in the front others Jumped from the back of the factory, ‘The sidewalks under the windows were soon cove-o with the blood of the unfortunates. SECOND ALARM $i; 7 IN. The first of the fi cmoen to orrive turned fp a second alarm. A third anda fourth alarm te towed ip rapid succession and alx calls for ambulances were sent In, Four si ns were soon on the ground and fourteen of the twenty jumpers were plea inte # res ena taken to the Cumberland Street Hospital. ‘ihe other sty h sent injuries, On the second hird floor & humber of tho qworkers were still yemen arrived, ‘These wero taken out by means gistrate Higginbotham, of Brooklyn, |« climbed one ladder him firemen and helped # girl out, 4 Shortly after the abe In the buiding was taken. ! out the roof of the ! as All th burning ew- pers and the flames A strong wind had Liown jn up and the flames were ¢ it wide, where | jum there is a long row of frame putidings, 0: wees, AB faz could be seen through the thick time all of houses from No, 119 to N The firemen’, were fightirg. hard, however 2, All of the families were ordered tm houses. in the rear, on Vanderbilt avenue, other frame h angnt Mre, and the police oraore the people ovt. The fires on Washington and Clinton avenues were juss sorlous and the owners of the houses could fight them successfully them selves | ty-fourth ‘At 3.30 o'clock the firemen got the fire under control, and an hour later me uu It was practically ont, People living im the neighborhood who had left thelr i! houses were then able to return, \! were not so badly injured. danger to face. The heat was so gr with ladders, and wh rear window, into a sma.) ile se other Alleged Victim Shouted for Police. SMO touch made is name was Willian is WOMAN TAKES POISON. FOUR KILLED IN CAVE In, | Matilda Lohman, twenty-one | ST | went up English, attempted sulelde | men » SSL South Boule a.) She to-day by taking audunum, | She taken to Lincoln He pope where she wlod thks ufleravons volene vel Company 1 namited and it ia thought this 1h $s the cause of the fall, . j hird fl This great warship, one of the, first to suffer in the daring night attack of the Mika o were at work on the third floor were| ghe. was completed in. 1902. She ts kotha Syreeneente ctevinecnee ainthae a speed ot oes ‘Knots an Hour. GIRL STUDENTS SAVE HORSE RACE GAME) Magistrate Discharged Prisoner) } on Similar Charge, When An-|«: RUSSIAN BATTLE- SHIP RETVIZAN DAMAGED BY JAPANESE TORPEDOES. Fede fleet, Kr BODY FROM FLAMES) pete Eee Corpse ot, Henry A. Spaulding, Who Had Died of Pneumonia, Was in-a House That Burned Down. y A. Spauldin last oliam Ma and ti val the house 01 retired diamond ment in the bt at Ms home| lying in th ative that] ‘Then th Aotor a] instant acti@n came U With wy istime his body Is from) about then and en's fashtonah boarding “hings the rescucrs see do members of the family and carried it outside 1 of rescue. ig was attacked by pret Monk a tow days ago, ‘The attention Nis Hamily was unremitting, dad wher | H were rendered well High bely 1 ret None knows how the fire sterted 1 LPNS DESERT |. AND START REVOLT) — Government Forces Pursue Con-} stabulary, Who Steal Govern.) mean from didn't y pautiise Pettit didn't Pettit, “lo the an kind of afraid fe aM enn tell If vou get th d that he wan every day to when he ment Arms and Funds and Fire on American Priests. | | MANILA, Feb | ALDERMEN PRAISE Nitty rites, Ave thousand + MAYOR M'CLELLAN, |: Forecast for the th.rty six hours ending at 8 P. M. Wednesday. for New York City and vicinity? and continued cold Wednesday partly cloudy; SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK MONDAY WONDERS —2}o———— First Actual Accounts of Attack of Japanese on Port Arthur Show that Three of Rus— sian Warships Were So Disabled that They Were Sunk at Mouth of Harbor. SEVENTEEN VESSELS IN MIKADO’S SQUADRON, AND ONE 1S MISSING, Fire from the Guns in the Forts Was Vigor- ously Returned -Russian Cruisers Ad- vanced to Give Battle, but the Japanese Warships at Once Sailed Away. CHEFOO, Feb. 9,—The steamer Columbia has arrived from Port Arthur with additional news of | the attack by the Japanese fleet upon the Russian \fleet in the roads outside of the harbor of Port Arthur. The Columbia was in the roads at the time and felt the first shock of a torpedo explosion at 11 o’clock Monday night. The attack continued all night and at daylight this morning the Russian battle-ships Retvizan and Cesarevitch and. one first-class Rus- and beached at the entrance of the harbor. “The cruiser was hadly listed to one side. This morning the Russian forts opened fire oa the Japanese fleet, which was about three miles ~jdistant. The Japanese ves:els returned the fire, hitting several of the Russian ships, but doing little damage. The Russian cruisers then went out and the Japanvse vessels disappeared. They were seen later going in the direction of Dalny, apparently undamaged. Although the officers of the Columbia say that there were seven= butlt by the Cramps in Philadelphia RUSSELL GARTH WINS AT Bg ODS | nother Long Shot—Typhonic Finally Wins at New Orleans. ‘later in the day near Foo Chow. A membef of the crew of the Columbia tells this story of the battle: “The Columbia was lying in 1 the randeteads sur- THE WINNERS. rounded by fourteen Russian battleships andcruisers, [eCRer RACE Exapo (5 to 1) 1.;At 11 o'clock Monday night a severe shock was felt Regian (40 to 1) 2, Bugle Horn 3. |) hoard, The Russians immediately commenced to operate their searchlights and opened fire toward thesea. The firing lasted only a short time. “At Lo’clock more shocks were felt and the to 1) 1. Royal Pirate (20 to 1) 2, Ar-| nold K. 3, |Russians again commenced firing. The Japanese Pay AW ORLEANS, did not return the fire. At 2 o'clock two Russian rs k + battle-ships went in and were beached across the encivance of the harbor. They were soon followed by A iebelohael wii ce tla Russian cruis which also was beached. None ‘ lot the ves els wa inved above the waterline. |More shock. irom «toes were felt during the learly morning and vcll was quiet, “At 10 0% tesday morning three Japanese ‘cruisers pe vei Vor. Arthur in sight of the Russian ‘feet. Tine whole Russian fleet immediately weighed , | anchor and went after them, but returned in half SECOND RACE Typhonic (5 ¢ 1, Caterpillar (6 to'1) 2, Roue 3. THIRD RACE—Russeil Garth (15 jan hour.’ A desp. ch fron Peking says that about one beers ind Japanes Eons aieepPaghed at chee THER UITERENCES, °* son “here oF €W0 vo Rs in warships. RIS HEARS RUSSIAN WARSHIP WAS SUNK, ote Chicago and New York P ; Come to Terms at 0 | —New National L | Eight Clubs, to &¢ and with | »P. M.-It was announced “at the that the Russian cruiser Je by the Jap- PARIS, Peb French Foreign Otbee tis aiternooi Pal i the torpeso attack m: anese on the Russiin tleet off Port Arthur, The injuries sustained by the Retvizan and Cesarevitch dau Was sunk are not known. It was reporied on from Vladivostok AF Is RUsSiAN I M C 1 abut ip St ere teams in. the occupied the att the same authority that the cable sen cut off. T CRIPPLED ? ng otf Port Arthur is understood to have mainly ntion of the council of Ministers, The impression prevails lengua, sian cruiser Palloda were seen to have been disabled” Takes the Third Race at Odds fl teen in the attacking party, only sixteen were seen