The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1907, Page 3

THE EVONING WORE foe “Jack” Seufert Describes His Expér- -ience-Under- Debris at Roosevel* Street Blaze, with Flames Threat- ening to Roast Him. peas ‘ After haying been buried for thirty hours in the ruina of the burned warchouse af No, G2 Roosevelt street, covered with tons of debris, Fireman John C. Seufert, of Engine Company No, 32, was reseucd to-day, alive and practically uninjured. “| fete is his own dramatic story as hetold it toan Evening World _|xeporter in the Hudson Strect House of Relief: it BY FIREMAN JACK SEUFERT, i l know pretty well now how that miner Hicks must have felt when he qwas buried underground so long out {n Calffornia, | “But being fn that Uying tomb, I suppose you would call it, for thirty hours, cramped up alone in the darkness, was not sich a terrible experience a @s was the first -horribie fall. “It seamed. to-uia that the world-was-coming-jo-un-end,—It-was-almost as bad, too, when I cold’ hear the yolces of the hoys and feel tho tread of thelr feet over my hesd, and yet when I yelled/and pleaded with them to come to my rescue they did not answer. The 4dea got Into my head that they did not want to rescue me. And all the’time they.could not hear me." “T‘couldn’t tell you how {t all happened /to save my life. Ali 1 know fs that with somo: of the other boys Iwas working with _a-line of hose on the fourth floor, Then somebody yelled to me through the smoke that tho order had been passed nlong to back out the hose and ure the water tower, J think Battalion Chief Duffy gave the order. Most of the othor boys had see the floor and I was backing out wal ue hose nozzle-when the thing happened. ‘ CRASH LOUDER THAN THUNDER. | __ “First there was-a feartul crash that sounded louder than the biggest _lelap of thunder I ever heard. Plaster and small stuff rained down on me. Y had to do one of two things and do it quick, Behind me was the window ‘and thé -Jagder and in front of me were two huge bales of paper. Idtan't attempt to run, but Jamped between the bales, “Had Ttried to react the window T wouldn't Gao | “That move saved m x Tife. pe-alive now, te:ling you this. “While I was crouched between the bales the other craehes came—one, two, three; just Hike thet—and down we went, the two bales, the floor I way standing-on—and- [,—It-seemed—as_thongh I fell_a thousand. feet;-and-the -[erashing and grinding of the floors os they fell sounded Mke one big peal of |” thunder. Althouga I knew what had happened, I imagined that it was thunder and that I had heew lut by lightning. “AM through that-fa:land-after i stopped going down-I don't remember jbelng hurt once, neither did I Jose my senses. The greatest fear I had came after I had stopped falling, when little tongues of flame began to appear in {the timbers about roc. FEARED) ROASTING TO DEATH. “I wads, afraid I was going to be roasted to death. Before the fre ‘would get started the water began to pour down, and I teil you it was @reat. It putthe fire out and cooled me oft. “After-aowhtie the-water-began to chill_me:_I was crouched up like a “jrabbit, but when the positon grew uncomfortable and I tried to move I foun¢ that my feet were held fast by a beam. “Itwas atill and dark and cold in there, and at first the timo passed cpretty slow. But it didn't seem as long a time as-it really was. Then I eard yoices and | thought J could recognize the yolces of somo of tho bors. fan awful nolse, but I couldn't hear any of them answer. while I could feel the jar as they walked around above me. “After a while I shouted sume more and begged them to dig me out, jana when they didn’t answer me I got the idea in my head that they. didn’t lywant to rescue me and that they wore K to leave mo: there to dic. I ‘don't know what made me think so, but I did; and the more I thought of ft the louder I yc‘led and beat upon the beams that pinned me down, IN A FLOOD OF WATER, Rev aTale “The water kept pouring down cn me until I was soaked. 1 never @rank so much waw? in ty ife. The helmet { had on was wedged tight Ton my head, and that kept the water from running down my heck. a WT Keptiyeliing every Mttle while, hoping that some of the boys would hear mié, and finally they did, Then when they got 60 they could talk to and I could talk back T knew that T was all right and the crowd would Jeoon have me out. | talked tothe Conimisastoner and toid him Twas teel- ling pretty good. “It was the first time I had ever met him. | Thank God it is all over.” Every once In a ; - Belfert had been taken trom his living tomb under the fallen walls id blaz- ing debria- of the paper— storehouse —at- No. 54 Roosevelt street the body of | Fireman Daniel Campbell was licated boyacthumb that protruded through. © [ midaa Of 7 paper” end CATES us THber, y Freders iver pee en ng Chtet, w toiling In the search for" whe buried men ever since they fell Into a fiaming well of wreck- | age. There was a compact mass where Tine “thumib was ney irty-fve feet [6 back from the street wat and two feet below the first floor level, and Chief finns directed the entire force of. forty workers to attack that section of the pre \CAMPBELL'S BODY “FOUND IN RUINS OF 2D BUILDIN G| Inch of him Toate ‘as ho lay in his cot fn Hudzon Street Hospital and told of his escapg® from a living tomb under tig-and blazing debris of the paper TeNOUST UT NOS SH Noose ‘Welt street. rat ‘ert awoko at 6-o'clock this morn- the Hudson Street Hospital,and. his “first exclamation ie —an_ attentive nurse was: “Say, I'm hungry as hell. Piease Get mo a dish of ham and uggs. |The doctors compromised on beef tea. They raid that the man waa pot In-uny Bahger, the bruises to his Jeg and shoul- det being only superficial injuries, na fireman_nsked repeatedly for his c Noting Chlef_Binne, who-has beendi- resting the work without sleep, for-nruy fours, continued his supervision of the digting. for Ne had nov altoxettier, npAndwied hope of recovering Campbei}' Psy Chief inns calli” attention —te—the fuct that there bay. many’ dia- arers to firemen in. sunllir. collanses pecatinn ofthe insecure manner in which stairways are braced. Hie “sald “that had there Deen a sup- porting. beam under ‘the ataircase Mt Roullenevor have collapsed when. the horizontal suomorts wera burogd. away” gested that some law-aught to be paned compelling Dullders to, brace \Up stairwny'a more securely. Afier Beufert had been taken out of tina the relatives of Fireenen IL congregated about the place with new aed fe whorenervous-condition was suc, hoWever, that she could not be tiken to,him from their home in Brooklyn. As'he went off into deep slumber again Actes eating, the man, aoked: in that hole, rr yen told hia entomnbment had 1am hirty “vUre Ne grunted. nx_he doxed sg hirty hours nothing; it was ¥ eka Campb aft T T If you'd like to play the ; fiddle, Mandolin,- Guitar, Banjo,- ‘Just turn to World Instruc- tion Ads.; They tell:to whom to go, Any Day—Every Day. BI aries 9 thege giria Gury I-shoutedas hard rs { could and it seemed to me that I must have made} uncle, Patrick Campbell, who brought old man's two nona endeavored to con- the young man lip from a boy. mata | sole hin and urged him to come home. pathotle figure as he pared up and down} and rest. He stubbornly refused to the street before the burned structur tha place, Nowever, and main- leafs or aim, od Tile) vigil Uiroughout” the ntent Unable to Keep back U mornin strain the sobs that shook 75 TELEPHONE GIRLS ‘Tho tan LESH) Dercaenic a AtvAy TTUAR STEAW a Miebqueouer 4 * FIREMAN ENTOMBED THIRTY HOURS UNDER DEBRIS, TELLS THRILLING STORY OF HIS EXPERIENCE CHEF THD CRIPPLE THE SERVICE Cupid Is Busy with the Young Women ‘Cen. trals,’’ ‘and the Green Hands Cause all Sorts. of Delays and Mix—Ups. yestigation shows that most of them NOTICE—The subscribers who f are wetting |marrled. shot at the ‘o_—employ about. 000 girls have been throwing hot shot a! aes a mnloy —_ mbrout 8.000 — gtela and = telephone company will kindly stop ‘and begin throwing fico and 01d shoes at the telephone girls, vate asitchboands Tt {aa very He ficult matter to obtain 15,000 competent operations, — Num@cally,_our—foree at present Js all right, but we must nd- mit that some of our girls are green, However. the cituation {a improving, We have known that the sorvice has pot been satiafagtary for some time and have been endeavoring to improve It. We would be glad to Investigate any suceltic “canes of trouble Thet wretched, service—it ts admit- ted aven by the officials of the com- pany that it fs more wretched now than at any time for years—is due to Cupid. The girla are marrying off at the rate of seventy-five m week: For soveral weeks subscribers have deen writing to. Thé Evening World complaining of the service. With one accord they have jumped—hand —and foot-on the telephone company officials, “It js terrible,” wrote one subscriber “Here 1 have been turned out-of bed twice-in' one werk at ¢-o'ctock In. the morning. And both times tie t aes py rs = phone girl has sqid: ‘Oh, excuse me; got the wrong number.” ~ Men who have tried to caf! up their ‘ homes to tell their wives that old story WHO SHOT SIMON : 4 about “having basiners down town’ and aorry? but I can't get home to @in- ner,” have been Unable to get a@ cone Her Defense Outlined by Counsel in Opposing | Motion to Rush Triak. for gbesin~ We en fate Beale rad: e id 09 obtain srad from the high schools of in era Brooklyn. uate These «irs are paid $ a week while slay “are learning. Ag_soon—ax- they become eMetent operators: the: io y recelve nection. Ana they have gone home lato aé_night to be told that thelr dear little wives had been asltting at the-telephone The ‘busy: will T call yout" excuse has -been harided out, time and time again for pwitchboard numbers. In fact, every concetvabie excuse has been River py the green girls, who have been Un- able to make the proper connection. ‘And the wretched service has been more_or_less_the cause of the foxgy weather which -haa-clonked- New York The density and yolume of the blue} haze has been. due to the explosive | expressions—of -disgunt rising fromthe throats of the talephone victiins: Bel- entists agree that there fs nothing on earth quite so exasperating and nerve- destroying-as.on unexpected break on ‘a telephone line. A few: months ago it wax possible to have an_uninterrupted conversation on the telephone. The exception 18 almoat | ¥. the Baroness Anisia cliarged with havin Binen. a of The trial of Louse di Massy, munlered _Gustay watst nnomctuver, down In his “office, for January 18 2 the Criminal ir Court. Assistant District - Attorney the trial of thir pretty was fixed to-day n |, OC: the Supreme | Train | Frenea ein vustied through this week, The green telephone ns thag the case was so. simple so enger “to do you good" | thyt tt would require only a few days frequently butt in just to} ieply to Mr, ‘Trath former As- Valstant Disirict-attorray Charles Le Barbler aude Ule sensational statement that he would require a gest deal longer tin 8 hy Intended to. prove that the mere Ted by we "We are dolng the best we can General Manager Thurber, of the New York Telephone Company, to-day. "I must admit that there Is justice in the |man who -had complaint, ‘The trouble Ia due to*two| closet of his victimes olen in the causes. During tho last few months| Mr. Le Barbler sald that he could prove that this man had gone to the manufacturer's office with the purpose of murdering him, and that. he had con- { in’ a closet, weapon in committed, 1s © contention, ug ‘the Baroness was avout to enter the toom to discuss a matter of business with Mr. Simon. Tho -slayer passed the the traffic has increased at an unusual} rate, and wo ure losing on an aver- age of seventy-five girls a week and are forced to fll thelr places with} green hands, Whero do tho girls go? Well, they aro getting married. You} cannot blame a girl for Fealgning, to ‘wet married.) \ woman at the threshold of the'door and threw his revolver out-Into the hallway, Even the Manager Geta It. “Excuse me," 6ald the manager, as ois own bell ting-a-linged. ‘Helld! who ts this? No, you have the wrong num- ‘Then dead the. pls th Baroness entered, saw. tho n on the floor and fed from” screaming. ative she could have had for ib [tereds with =m aiaraee benten and tortured Mrs, ct Mra. Nelson-has esveral Pheaten witht Twas so unnerved Way, on November,-by-ehootine him | ¢, Lth< CPS Encpsicaitte, Burglars. As the result of having been six years old, ym The police think the men were | large hoard of ,mon house, They. went work. They mont window, , hidden elson, ured was $100 In smal bilis on her head recetved wh la could Kill you no} me ons the ming © kne hangy and £ th Tt burglars. it me W wan UOKINE ““phey asked moe where I money, I told. them At was Giaing-room, Gne oF them « witha towel and they left me Very weak. apd my cw LON ¢ tama back. tn One of them 1 was dying. joe floor oT don't kno “When th me again, unt 1 thoveht “They stopped faint, ant one show them wh Kill me, 1 think he sald: Rule je MHI pulled the KAR out © and the other held the musa head, 1 told ‘to the money. them to the dining:rox wer In a_satchel Int the deed bas been a mystery. ELEVATOR VICTIM. Ironworker Hit On Head and Knocked From Third Floor, Lewis Jacobson, an fronworker, em- ployed on a building In course of can- Miruction at Nos, 1Ss and 14) \Weat One Hundred and struck on the head by a hod ee: Ror day and knocket trom the thifd-toor je died Just aa an am Hood Wright “Tila “aide, stacthew aH, R. Toop, foremen and jeCanh, engineer machinery Were arrested. Jacobean was Oo tiness years ol an iived at rooklyn, ber, Who do you want? Walt a min- ute, please, and I'll haye you con- nacted,' “You eee,” continued Mr, Thurber, “‘T am a sufferer \myself, One source of our_trouble ia the great prosperity of the times, That is probably the reason why #0 mahy girls are getting mat- ried, You know, they have the same trouble at the big stores, Thero seems to be a wearcity of gitla Just now. It has been. worse this season than -over before, Girls are always scarce just before the holidays because the atores give employment to so many. “some, of our girls are leaving the dik exchanges to take charge of tna exchanges th apartment-houses, hate usual No, 9 | cespelres. Our:in- TORTURED OLD WOMAN IN RUT FOR PLUNDER Mrs. Nelson -Beaten and| ~Choked— by Masked _ {a In a serious condi tetas at her igus A Bo La pireet:-Hrovit: who .delleved “the aged woman had a} sleeping on the ake & noise I ething struck for the ot Were Ued with’ pleces of | waw there Were Uva an with the re kept my in th MT wax] tao 1 at _as Towns going to SR eG ‘TH onish | my door ne Ww no trace of + { | beaten and nearly choked to death hy: two | i masked burglars, who forced her to show them the hiding place of her} sivings, Mrs. “Annie Nelson,s¢ev perts i in the | “| Excel all. others. § paint Many—styles.—_White el shay, ; Band numberless. ex- fous cuts “clusive designs in fancy fabrics, scream, next and my’ | ed me "| Agonia INST. | STOL bY of the | Radway's money | vital powers vigv | AUSE, j thus that th | adapted for | thor risk “or | from the wi headacto, ton of to the part relieve and complaints, MT fainted then, 0 In fabrics, workmanship, fit ‘SHIRTS Ask for Cluett Shirts L SLUETT, PEABODY a CO. tha ene and ine natural pelea In the! back, Radway’ ui 1 wis. oo- frightened I thine When I came to I went son's room and woke him, In sthem, brRines outside the {BRITISH WILL SHOW Portugal, for the confidential manoet= vres Inaugurated by Lord Selbourha’ training scheme. During the secret manoeuvres Sir Ar= thur Wilson will have under his” com: mand the largest number of battles and cruisers over brought together, ‘The English home guard and coast do- Lelie a Ti RS RY TA upon_at_all_to augment) this ae fleet, Tha Channel sawridron of eight battles! ships, the Atlantic squadron. of seven. battleships and tho © Meditterranean. kquatron of seven battleships, with thelr host of attendant cruisers, will, participate In the movements, es pT Admiral Lefevre. Die: ced PARIS, Jan. 3. — Admiral Lefeyre, sr former Minister of the Navy, Is dead,: GREATEST WAR FLEET Record Number. i mech will Assemble-for- Manoetryres Off Portugal. “LONDON, 8—The greatent an- semblage of fighting ships ever witness- ed will be held in February when the ngiish Atlantic, Channel and Moditer- Jan, (INCORPORATED) .* 28th Half-Yearly Clearance Sale f Smart Clothes and Furnishings ’ Begins To-Morrow Morning at 8 o'clock. Our Half-Yearly Sales have become récognized money- saving events of importance to’ thousands of thrifty New Yorkers—men who know Byck Bros. Smart Clothes are on an equality with the costly productions of the custom-tailors of Fifth Avenue, In this sale our entire stock goes : ___AT._COST AND LESS ~ with a tremendous assortment of Suits, Overcoats and Trousers of latest { style for men and young men in a variety of exclusive brea for Suits and Overcoats that for Suits and Overcoats $9.2 were $12.50 and ta $] 6. 7 that were $25 and $27.50; : for Suits“and~ Overco: for Suks~and~ Overcoats: $1167 ee omit | 819.50 ite were $30 000 38250.. its" and _Overci for Suits and Overcoats $14.50 ioe 2538 |82.4,50 ha wee os ate “Prince Albert Frock, Full Dress end Tuxedo Suits, Fall Orercoats and Bis) Conte at great reductions, Boys’ Suits, Overcoats end Reelers, sizes 3 to 16 yearn at 30% to 50% unders j rice. No charge for alterations. _ Smart Haberdashery at greatly reduced prices. é é ‘The Smart—Clothes- Shop” 154 to 164 East 125th seer Near-Third- Ave. Sale of Rugs and Lace Curtains, : | AXMINISTER RUGS, Best quality, in Oriental designs, 9x12. Value $25, for.,... 5 ; ROYAL WILTON . RUGS, Persian Designs, 36x63. Value = $7.50, for... RENAISSANCE LACE CURTAINS, in white. “and Tabian, 3 yds. long. Value $4:50 pair, fOl sein sancieeasiess oie NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, white and ecru, in all the newest patterns, 334 yds, long. Value $4.75 ‘a pair, for 2.98 4 Sale of Linens and White Goods. HEMMED-NUCKED TOWELS, size 18x36. Value-1234c, at. HEMSTICHED HUCK TOWELS, size 20x39, Value 20c, ake 32-INCH IMPORTED WHITE MADRAS. Value 19c, at. . WHITE PENANG WAISTINGS, highly n mercerized. ‘Value: 396, ee nd comfort wok for Cluelt tadel. ene Oe AnAOe Coltame ing Neuralgic Pains Radway’s Ready Relief reliable Teady Mellel im sate of the atructurd, or vitality through mulation’ and increased sestlin of the pain {s driven away © itlon restore, It Is 9 Ready Kellet tae admirably the cure of pain and witho {njury, which of many of the so-called pa: Ready Relief oF parts affected will toatantly soon cure the sufferer of these Sold by all druggists, “Radway & Co, 45 Lafarette Biya New Korky, Smith, Gray & Co Eleventh Day of Our | STOCK REDUCTION SALE — + Will-be-devoted-to the clearing wp ofthe balance advertised Saturday at $14.50 ayd $22.50. ~ Many of the best styles are yet to be sold. unusual, The values are tee Men’s ‘8 ~ Overcoats—$32 oat “The coats advertised at $32.00 are the best-values we have - vever offered; —At-$18.50—plenty—of-all-sizes remain for-a~ big day's selling, and at $12.50, if you wear a large size, say 40, 42 ora, pou fan get wo dollars’ value for one: { Broadway. at 31st-St.,.New York |. Fulton St. at Flatbush Av. Broadway at Bedford Av.,- Brooklyn WEDNESDAY.AND FHURSDAY EXCEPTIONAL VALUES IN Women’s Hosiery and Underwear” BLACK LISLE THREAD HUSE, gauze and medium weight, plain and with silk lustre. Regularly 50c, © 30G pair= Box 6 for $2,00 ? BLACK CASHMERE HOSE, British make, BEC) . handsomely embroidered insteps, Regularly $2.00, 1.00 pate 5 | WOMEN’S VESTS, fine soft cotton, medium weight; 4 a tights to match. Regularly 65c, SOG each y WOMEN'S VESTS, white merino, hijh neck and long sleeves; tights and French band drawers to match, Regularly $1.00, WOMEN'S, (FETS SUITS, medium weight, _ soft Cotton. Regularly $1. $0, j Ovelny € a 65c