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T IN A FIRE- TRAP. (Continued ated from Firat Tint Bt how the fire started, but the firemon established one thing, and that ts that tt started in paint and ot! in the rear of the ground floor, that a lamp was left burning and that when Isaflore Davis, who keeps a grape juice factory and) also’ lives there, re turned home early this morning he onened the door suddenly, making a draught which gauged the lamp to ex- fFIRE ESCAPES WERE USELESS, SAYS CROKER. Hire Cites Croker sald of the east One account ie “in in Twins and Triples - to. Many Homes, “On every, landing the “openings Wer, closed,and platforms wore piled bigh ‘with old mattresses, boxes, bat- ela; bottled, Cans and ‘all sorts of ) On bhe top fidor, 41% Dodies were found, the dreontape Bolt — opening was covered by and on thie @hutter was piled a bunoh of gtuff that must have ft himdred pounds, *M> obstruct a fire-eseape in any way isa violation of a city ordl- Hance.” The. enforcement. ordinahee ta in the hands of the po- Hee and the tenement-house ineyeo- 't been to be much Admite He Started Fire, Davis himself thinks that it was candle that was left burning among '|the paints, At any rate he admits that he inadvertently started the fire, H | had beon out all night with frlehds | ‘and returning home at 8,90 o'obook | couldn't find his key. rear of the ‘tenement, 1% fence and started in by the rer, O. iK or STORKS IN CARNEGIE MILLS. | Ss at McKeesport... is at Munhall and Homestead... ohuttter, Wwelghed a coupi He Went to the At McKeesport J a toe ssweeee At McKeesport f] Ae soon as he opened the door, he gays, he saw a tongue of flame shoot! across the room and a moment later) the whole place was ablase. firat thought was for his wite He roused them, helped them on with their clothes and got ft tors, There aves Qttampt to enforce it on the aide, Let those reaponelble for Ssatoty of the city keep the in legal shape and turn In prompt alarme and the Fire Department will PGipestad to "Ths véning Word) }, Maroh 14—Hundreds of 9 been born In. this city and y town within the leat three doctors and Health oftlee | Are working: overtime to Ith of the workmen. has been good, thus insurin, ements The superintendents of the various departments In the mills attribute the Great Increase in the population to this Story of Thoy report that the thousan mployed ufder then been unusually diligent at their work, Qnd the absence of so many of th workmen almost #multaneougly pus. sled thom until the exouse of new ba+ ‘dies was Bias by the men on thelt In bik haste the stork le: the infantile influx, the ‘a Aquad of new ar- Mnterfered with the wi Steel plant and ‘and on the way met Polloeman Stau-| bit, to whom he gave the first word MISSING. GINSBERG, CLARA, seventeen, GINSBERG, ELGIE, thirteen, ZEITN=R, REUBEN, forty. ZEITNER, CARRIE, ten. ZEITNER, RACHEL, eleven. INJURED, At Gouverneur Hospital: BLUME, .. BLIZABRTH, yeara old, burns on forehead, hands and arms; will probably. recove: Fire-Becapes Crowded. ‘The alarm was sounded, and in tev minutes the enginos were on the scene, wo |The fret to arrive was No, 17, and at the same timé hook-and-ladder oom: pantes Nos. 6 and 9 galloped up. By this time the flames had arisen to every floor in the tenement-house. Men, wornen and children were on the fire-esoapes goreaming, Quickly the T | hook-and-ladder companies extended fe [ladders to the escapes In the rear and | CORNELL, JOHN front of the burning building, ‘As the ladders wore raised to the front of the building there came @ gust of find from the west and'flames dartod cere from. every one of the front windows, sweeping every one th the building with rho Bro if the Carnegie ‘live, ig 86 births since Sat- ‘fabwenoe of no many fath. hen ating, howe re given inw the: "boing the homes twins came, bart hi eh of George Puslovick two | W. te ome Noe ae boy are demanding ted . iater and bestow twenty-seven eventeen yoars old, of No, 108 Al street, burned on neck and eats While assisting in Nionnis, twenty-three ‘a old, burned on face, head and hips! condition serious, hot tongues, Then the doomed folke be-| ONSBENG, LOUIS, ‘nine years old, and ‘hin good about the mitts, it sled {novease in the p due to the pror- ¥o beenbrutinidg futt time Se fe ryn Mawr, 4 fine Sal ondeat nha habe AGH IN MANHOLE _ BURNS A CHILD. Hurry Antls, slateen years old, were taken to Gouverneur Hospital, but left for the home of friends after treatment. + MILLER, ABRAHAM, six years old, burned on hands, head and thighs: At Bellevue Hospital; éeut, | COHRN, LONB, thirty years 014, mul- tiple burns, condition serio @an to Jump from the escapes, Mothers the | hurled thelr children down to flremon and then aptang-headiong after them, Men dlunged through space ‘and fell in & heap on the sidewalk. Many were caught In the firements a Weis Heroes Were There. Heroes faveloped at this. th Bonner, son of the old fire chief, as- cended the fire-escapes five times, Four times he came down with a woman or|DIVAN, JOHN J,,’ patrolman, thirty- two years old, No, 14 Arion place, * Brooklyn, fractured collarbone, trac- tured right hip end scalp wound; Bagh serlous, " RG, JOSEPH, fifteen years old, tohoolboy, burns of body; condition barre momen i, thelt’ exciterment, id ute | sh Cover Is Blown Up with a Report Which fe Heard for, Sev- @ child in hie arms, aking for the.street with an Unconscious woman when his etrenath gave oway..’ Ho. staggered and’ would |, have fallento death hadi not a comrade gone to° his!'wasletanoe, Then Bonner bank back on the hot’ fron and would ‘Have ‘Totated "40" death’ Nad! not’ nome fitemen scaled ‘the Tndders ‘and ‘carried By the explosion of sewer gas in a manhole in front of No, 270 Tenth ave- nite thie ‘afternoon George Spath, fivo Md old, was severely burned about aco, Hévebsitating hiv removal to i New. York Hospital. The boy was , | olaying in the atrest when the covet of | the manhole flew. upward mie sheet of ha teno wan @1 unt good, BLUMM, LAZZIw, thitty years old, No, 105, ae atreaty expoat ani a Mater ra to Bettevite, , BADR, ‘forty-five years oid, shoemaker, wound of scalp and i ‘her ce wehisg’ ot the fave; not serious. Leut,’ Hadnian” nnd’ Firemen Mo- ‘Jorath and Walsh, of Hook and Ladder | MEN) RESO! hgsceoas hg & with: Taig Posie, Engine Wo, 6, and Gpectal Policeman W ergouttl 8, ‘Wartaleky formed:a: human chain, Some AACHEN, “ORAS, Shitty aabt rears Qf the men; would, mount the bilstering wis ai HUSBAND LAER TENED MURDER ld, con! dealer, of No, 106 ien|f street, multiple burns of body; con- ronching would toss him 4 their mare ia Browsht Againat Lawyer by One of Tre Aehoncrs Claiming Him, ie tence and cared for by the waiting hun: [_0%® of the reso dreds who Were kept from getting clove u fiyeman came upon a bundic of rage, which appeared to heve been thrown from one of the windows, The Aebdele, The | Dundle rested in & snow pile, and jas half ‘buried in. it. pany No. {7 were fighting the fire i milnala, Whole staircase collapeed and they wero being he ale Bene Cae Se ar ollapse of:the stalrs also caused.« back nee Aremen was Arnaght, in, which the men were aimoat |S%ut to pase on when there came a ‘odught; Afi bit one of the men inanaged alight injuries. This one He told on the stand how he had, first t her in the restaurant of het then faint ery trom the bundle of rags, ahd upon fnvegtietion he found that it | courte, and contained & little mir about two yoars | least three old, uninjured, She was taken to bed wide, with opis © station-hous2, and ag there were no claimants “for her she was removed floor and on. eveny hie night ‘after we had een fo. A way wireroan Play," be ald, “we went to the rH thunedand sculded about the face and honda and sank down unconscious, Fire- Imin Blanchard, although half atifled himeett, pleked nin up and carried him |'*% '9 Gouverneur Hospital to a place of safety. He was then re- moved, to the hospttal, “Bome’ Roasted Alive, A number of the persone on the em capes had not: been: rendered uncon- Lindl sane sclous by the first blast of flames, ant they were slowly roasting alive, soreamed loudly, They could not de- scend, for the reason that every escape was bloke) wilh abh cang and other ‘household utensile which hag been lett ‘on the ‘eaceges In-vioTation gf the law "These persons feared to jump, and hevi4 could not walt until the ecaling ladders reached thétn, so int the heat. Now and then one woul spring to the ground with o wild iscream that eohoed through the street, A baby had gust been. flung into the arms of Wartalsky by a horror-strioken | | and fear-crased mother, The spedial taurant, I had previously told her | that I knew. her, husband was wanted by tho police and that I also bigs ‘that he. wos hiding in the ohurch ai {Fith avenue and fMloyenth atreet. i added that I intended to {Inform the police, Just then there was a smell ‘of smoke from the cellar and we went down. While there she suddenly called i isbaind cAme from behind a range with a revolver pointed Woman's Awful Death, A Woman, her night dreas biasing, was seen to crawl out from the flames and smoke, and start down the escape from How she had escaped death up to this time cannot be ex- plained. Bhe made her way cauttounly eweape, removing cans aud boxes and hurling’ them to th When they blocked her way, ‘The hot fron escapes bistered her feet and burnt deep into her flesh, but she continued on, The firemen watohed her, ‘The scaling ladders were run up close to the escape and a fireman reached for her, when there came a beloh of flame a} 28 dD it were from a blacksmith’s | girget, Tt covered the woman like a re her down, She fell back alive in sight of the horror- Who she was no one Bhe was about twenty-five years i policeman caught the child, when the | o1, snd her hale wae long and bet. oo aves Aver Laat It By: weour of the bu bi to’ the street, covered It with a horse a ei ‘ihm ghad “work. vig tor Beikeok sone ot ki is ton. a fa ate ravenous and “Tt you tell Inepector Byrnes where’! can he found I witl kill you!" he satd, “Youhave to go to work and give my wife money whenever she wants {t, you don't, I will murder you, He thon’ ist me. Asan the revolver, but foe hac sued bse hioi tporulded him, rer here oat eat Seen on a. 8 contract or otherwine, WADOO LOOKING INTO TWELFTH REGIMENT CASE. Recent Natd hy Police on Armory Bubsect of Iuvestigation by | Comwmisiaoner, Commisetoxer McAdoo fs making an Investigation into the friction suid to exipt between some members of the ‘Twelfth Regimcnt and the police of the mother dived head first to the around, She fell upon Wartalsky’s head, etruck | 11, vot him to the ground with the force of a pile driver, and there he lay uncon- The woman escaped hurt by the fall, but was burned, The baby was mot hurt at all, #0 carefully had the mother shielded It from the flamer ahd so carefully had the special pollce- man caught it when’ it\was thrown, Croker and Kruger Lead. these rescues were progress in the rear of the house others were taking place in the front, Hore} from the west, and mother and eons the firemen, ‘their faces, black, their | fell before the flames and roasted, Two other members of the Solomon Mipiend windor we at, pi rit end i he sire «| Deputy Commissioner Lindsley tsa cap- fain In the regiment, In order ito learn the details of the raid by the police at the armory last ia Saturday night, Capt. Cooney, of the Webt Sixty-eighth street station, was summoned before the Commissioner to- » He told McAdoo that he had re- Then there came that blast of wind hands burned and charred, thelr cloth- ‘ng scorching and often on fire, led by Chief Croker and Deputy Cnief | ing, ‘They, were not seen again, If any one ever doubted the bravery and efficiency of the New York firemen he would haye changed his mind after the attempts at rescue made i by those men-in the front of the bulld- Assisting them were the reserve | child. policemen from the Eldridge atreet sta- The front of the building was | tor aaving the ly *|1ned with scaling ladders, ders placed close to any of the wii dows meant death to the firemen, and they had to be placed as near to them as possible with great care, again flames would shoot out from the | women and windows and lick the fire-escapes, Atumbling about the lot made vacant by the extension of the new bridge ter- A bate Qa aah ‘at were | Were seen to look from the and then fall back In the burning bullae Pollcernan Divan May Die, In, neta rescues Policeman Divan, Bldridge street gallons he 80 insure that it ( feared Beit Kronpttah wherd he was talcen, Divan was hurt saving burned and 1s thought to have Inhaled flames, Two years ago Divan got a etated that the aggnts of the Society for Crime were going to raid the place and that a danze of an immoral character was to be held In one of the company rooms, Capt, Cooney | the authorities refused him on, agd° itt Was not unt! Col, Dyer had ordered the commandin ficer to admit ‘him, that he got Jn, young women wh ersons In a fire In Mldridge street, At Ens. fire spe, entered a bulldin were going to “'per- McAdoo has asked Capt, Birr NB rhe company, 0 appear be- passed Upaat over root until he had faved onl °c A STUCK PIG. Read how a pig and a harpoon helped Sherlock Holmes to solve “The Myatery of “Binck Peter’ In the four-page Color Supplement of aturday's Hivening ae beara ete rove! FOUR HUNDRED MORE POLICE, | It The Bonnd of Aldermen to-day voted for an appropriation of $226,000 to en+ able Cocorntestones Beaksoo ts better ai Morning World FA Daily Average of 82—Dporators Warted—82 ¥ four hundred men cs kL LM ih A a wah ae oe, “and I was asleep “When I myealt, that I could not get it out, Hot Know, but I, saw at once thet mouse aying there ‘ it i phe note (hi cured for aoe fora ess ‘3 Hast Third red me. ere nt there found hy spied AeAeeeT MUST ous; Ammeement, =F reet Five Shote Hit, cave her per nubart ‘won edal | yeneven | tour to the fi lg by leaders o 16, Saturday, THE FIRE , placing hie hat -with great attention; |~ ‘| ho placed his arm around the shoulders Women and children Try. ing in Vain to Open the erica Har} vig aa ape Mra, 1a adidas the Janttrene of | nati the house, who with her husband, More | fa pend orctlefi from. Be pocket and oure- fully rub the fur the wrong way. Wae Still Singing. ‘The rescued one was feeling fink, Re- of the first mate and warbted: “OH, g-g-gtive us @ d-d-drink b-b- bartend-der, for we Ilove you as you kk-Know,”” : “Well, if tre ain't the lint," ejaculate. 4 Capt. Brady, as he ordered his men to tear the plug hat derelict to the, boller-room, was placed in a chair In front, of esi wrhile, te W 0d t Pier Si of te oat “ Guarded Hie Hat, W "¢ dhe eoinnih wad tay obeyes Che" cote lor pata, tan | on No. MW i oon Feb ic the Ee arnt a hagwo nom ra riisA ham and. tholr six Qhildren had @ very: narrow pavape, said to. an edi World réporter to-day that at least tom lives were lont In the fire because it wae tmpognibie to open’ the scuttle hole lead. tg ing to thd roof, The scuttle, she says, was lolted atid also fastened with a sale hook, wittch could not be formed a rig i Biteat, ae eae " ‘At the foot of the Inddor leading tw |Stulsing In, Cen! in a cab, the toot ten bodies were £6 Mrs, Boorchintky saya that ped Pe of these porsous might have been Raved but for tho condition of the souttle, “Tt lve on the gecond ftoor over the | barber shop,” sald Mrs, Boodchineky, | when the fire starts 4, When wokb tp -the plate. was (60 full of smoke and the halls-were ablugu, T grabbed two of my children, and call. ing to my husband to get the others, started out, In the smoke and con- fusion I missed my husband, hut 1 started downstairs only to find my way | blocked by great clouds of smoke, ‘Then I thought of the roof and, with © child by each hand, I rah upstairs. t to the Afth floor and reached the ladder leading to the souttla it waa simply crowded with women and children, They wero tearing at the Jock om the souttle, but couldn't force ft back. Buch excitement I never caw in my life, I never knew the boattle to be fastened Ike that before, wo 1 yelled to the womeh to let me up, At first they pald no attention to me, #0 I dropped my children and, pulling may} three women off the ladder, went up “T found that the bolt to the soutile, which usually works easy, wo Jatiimed that I couldn't force it back. The hook on the other end wus also twleted ao ‘Whethur inters were working on the 1, BE ON CORNERS. ret | genate Bill Provides New " antety Regulations for Places of (Rpectal to ‘The Brenig Wortd,) ALBANY, Mefoh 144A bill providing tliat every theatre shall © flreproot and ‘outlet on « commer mina satroduced to-day by Benstor Gaxe, of New York, On the ohten of the building aot bordéring on a mtreet there must be ten-foot open within the building upon at oofridors Attewn foet the auditorium at WOMAN ELOPERIS A GOOD MARKSMAN, Tries Pistol on Sea for Whom she Deserted Husband—Four o Merle Prisco, twenty-three years old, eloped from her husband in Rast New York a yeat ago with Tony Catitano, ‘They came to Manhatten and engaged rooma in the tenéthent at No. 191 Mott Marle's husband eued her for divorce, and the case was called for trial in Bion to-day, Tony refueed fo that he youre pb i 0 bi “ave. ve he ae eed my ot a to aaah, ys uk sn i Preis Fell from Perry-Boat, ae | raed x Sout the tay Pa “ACT an LAUNCHED BRISTOL, R. 1, March 14—The sloop yacht Sonya, which will be’ the only American destane boat t) compete In foreign races of the Si-foot class the ce yachting seusen, wus sauiciwd at the Heireshoft yards here to-day, She ts the property of Mra, G. Turner Farley, of London, and will be com- manded by Capt. Fred hed ‘Trials FAINTS AT AUCTION, DIES IN AMBULANCE, Bxcitement Following a successful Wid Killa Well-Dressed but Unidentified. Woman, A well-dressed woman about thirty. five years old fainted in the auatton- rooms at No, 62 West Fourteenth street ‘to-day while bidding for a ellver eugar bowl, @he died in en ambulance on the Way to ®t, Vincent’s Hospital. ‘The roome were packed when the auc- tioneer put up a emall sugar bowl, The bidding began at 20 cents and rapidly tose In five-cemt raises, The woman ‘wae In the front of the jam about the auctioneers table. Her cheeks were flushed and het volee eeemed choked with emotion, When the bowl was knocked down to her for $360 she sank to the floor. Th @ moment there was a panic, and the commotion collected a great throng of shoppers about the pl any the oe reserves tad to be called to make Lec for the ambulance surgeon, The woman never recovered consclousness, | Though there was considerable money do her purse there was nothing to sh if Koo yit derly alk and weighed ier Lead bo 0 ae a etic il BROKAW'S CARETAKER HELD, Under 910,000 Bail for Alleged Arson and Larceny, Oscar F*, Johnson, a caretaker for W, Gould Brokaw, who was oharged with setting fre to his employer's house at No, 774 Madison avenue, to tide alleged thettw, was arraigned on two charges In the Yorkville Court this afternoon and held by Maat rate Omipen tn usd Fach soe and Rd on on @ bail for in ‘the secon io ‘ify yee one Brokaw Ne red tn court val er prosec' ns Hig ae ‘employee, Johnson, it le al- lined, ‘nad beon stealing from Mr. Bro- w for some time and his ba eee had ron he to the gum of $10,000 worth it his Injuries are mee and then continued thelr work ‘atale Marl eacaped. among the living, Solomon Family Incinerated, On the top of the fire-escape lay three bodies, Mrs, Solomon and her two sons, Idaad and Jacdd, The orowd of the street had seen the mother and her two sons come from thelr apartments, the mother first and the sons following, each holding to her and trying to help AT THE Sad CONVENTION Dressmakers’ Protective Association OF AMERICA, Now Being Held in the MASONIC TEMPLE, Sixth Avenue and 23d Street, New York, the ~ C\B ALA SPIRITE CORSET Is Endorsed as the he": || CRITERION of FASHION ratied fo, Time tele liver by | Gno after miother he adjoining = = agonist and used in, all demonstrations to give display to the latest modes, lg the one corset that gives correct con- ure, fits to perfection and is worn fashion everywhere. Dem err atone on ar eda , of goode and valuables, March 14, Thursday, M Maren} rare jay, March “IN HIS PLUG HAT) (Continued from ed from First Page,) ———— SPECIAL, : Gold $1.00,” id Has aid i) no barn, ribe the right cinsses only whee REMARKABLE CURES which Bren 1 ome tei | - nett nF YOU SUFFER repre iy a fonen ‘clubs as the simtt of of Set fiscs “ie OF CHARGE. Bhowld ¥ ing for a "Himited Wh DL Bn 8 A 620 Tha, GB EBD i ay Pa bet ifn & aeons, es ie a, See if yourolris BLY A:LION BRAND” COLLARS mit. ARE 4 PLY CANDY SPECIAL FOR TUHSDAY, Chocolate silver StrinG1 EOE SIR : Calking- Machine And 18 Records of Your Delivered at Your Balance Easy Monthly Payments. FOR NEURALGIA SLOAN'S LINIMENT INSTANTO KILLS PAIN Peay ee 1008 or Nae a} i ty Sort end Sweet. ots a Woman's Voree, WON HIGHEST HONORS At St. bould tnd Buffalo Expo. 975.” t0 °J00,” Largest Stock of Records—in- cluding the 25 New for March, i ey ‘and i ete % CREDIT per wool will keep you and Uy well dresved Inthe ina ae aiyle, ME auorniNa at Nhe lowelt pie loos. Manhattan Clothing Co., 1114 3d mak near 65th Men’s Collars, 6c, ea. Strictly 4 ply, Linseed in all shapes and sizes, dozens, tied in half Nidsotas sold SMITH—At Jersey City, Maroh 18, 1003, KATHARINE SMITH, widow Edward 8, Relatives and friends! of the family are Invited to attend funeral services \Vednes- day evening March 18 at 8.80 o'olock, from the residence of her daihter, Mrs, ©. P, TMiden, TL Prescott place, Jersey City Interment Peokskl President Suspenders, Beston Garterssees.s.ee+00419e, Stem Winding Nickel Watches, Guastattat parte Saari BOARD WANTED. 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