The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1907, Page 8

~ KILLED his flat was empty. Undoubtedly it “Y family with the fire. What would enter into their calculations. ° |. The fire in the narrow hallway was ‘started first. There is only one opening 4m the brick partibon between the gro- gery and the hallway. It ts broken ty @ smal! window near the ceiling. When the fire was mounting the stairx the Domb was thrown through the open transom of the store. The bomb was so constructed as to Gremen arrived thew had two fires to contend with in the same building— (ne in the grocery; the other in the faltway and the upper floors, The first warning of the fire was &@ double explosion in the grocery—the ‘explosion of the bomb, which scattered flames, immediately followed by the ex- Plosion of a can of kerosene. They > Were heard by Vincengo: Barbera, » doker, working alone in his little shop fn the celiar of the bu!iding. Skepers Cut Off by Flame. Barbera’s wife and three children were asleop in his fiat on the third} floor. and his first thought was of} them. Not ten seconds elapsed between the first explosion and his arrival at the street entrance of’ the hallway. Even then his way was burred by| fizmes that were eating their way up- ward. Th b expinsion had been 80 med as not to waken the IW persons fm the house until the only avenue of @scape to the street was shut off. ‘The firat rush of the awakened ten- &nts was for the ground floor. Find- {ng escape cut off there, they started | for the roof. There was a jam on the narrow stairway leading to the scuttle, | and/the fugitives ran back to’ their rooms, leaving the doors open. Women and children were perishing | miserably in the stuffy rooms and on| athe stairway leading to the roof scut-| Me. Five women died. there. Devoted | Mothers gathered their little familles and groped about in the smoke with! them, while husbands and half-grown gons occupled the avenues to escape @nt—peld them with fists and feet. Before the first engine had arriv several women and a number of chil- ren leaped from the first and second | | <vatory windows and from the Mre-escapes. | ‘They fell into the street. Some escaped @orious.hurt. Others limped away or in the street, Engine No. 3, in ‘charge of Lieut. Hughes, was the first to arrive. Then - game fire patrol No. 7, commanded by Capt. Albert Sidney Johnson. Hughes ran to No! 2% with his men. Johnson made for No. 20, * The Captain, with Patrol Fireman Butler and Detective Conners. of the Fitch -street-station, climbed to the top “floor of the teviement; “ana tiere-sonn= sop did what only a man who holds the lives of others at.a premium and hi own at a discount when danger occur: would have done. 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COR.67# AVE & 15 "ST BOMB “CAUSED FIRE T HAT NINETEEN 2 Big East-Side Tenement Destroyed by, \Firebugs Who Planned to Destroy | ; “Lives of 150 Sleepers with Building. Fiends«bent upon, intimidation and revenge and supposed to be § members of ‘the Black Hand took the lives of nineteen innocent persons “in a tenement-house at No. 222 Chrystie street early to-day by setting ‘off a bomb in a grocery on the ground floor and’ blocking the escape of ~~ the aroused tenants with « fire in the lower hallway. ; The dead were nearly all women and children. The assassins had thing against them. But for the, fire in the hall all might have escaped. =~ Nicola De Marco, the merchant whose store was blown up, was “not in the building at the time. His family left the city yesterday and was the intention of the desperadoes to wreck De Marco's store with the bomb and wipe out the De Marco happen to the other tenants did not dow sill of the tenement, Johnson straddled a distance of four feet until one foot was on the alll of the top floor of the burning tenement. Butler and Conners waited on the inside. Hero Saved Thirteen. Johnson had hardly. appeared when a man ran to the window, Behind the |man in the fierce red glare could be seen a number of women and children clothes and singeing thelr hair. The children were weak from hoat and smoke. They and thelr mothers were walling pitifully, At sight of Capt, Johnson the man atruck about him. The women or children who came in the way of his hard fist went down. Then he came to the window. "Saye me! Save me first!" he wailed 11 kill you first!"* Johnson answered. “Now, if you don’t want to die you hand me that baby.” The man obeyed. Then he handed the other children and then the women. In this way Johnson saved twelve wom- en and children and then he clutcned the man by the collar and dragged him ragged from the ‘burning rooms by Johnson they were taken in the other window by the detective and fire pa- trolman. Fire Patrolmen Schoener and Rartells and Martin Ogle, of Engine No. 72, shinnied across on the coping from No. 24 to No, 222, and one of them beat his way down the fire-escape and low- ered the ground ladder. Then there was a fight between these four men and a score of Itallans, The foreign- ers were already so frenzied with fright that more than one woman or child had been pushed trom the fre- eacape. When the Hook and Ladder companies arrited-they_raised-twenty-Ove and thir. soon the fire escapes in front and rear were free of the screaming tenants The police expect to make an arrest ttoxday of the man suspected of setting off the bomb This man was seen near t house shortly before the 4 he Is known ‘o be affilia Black Haid soctety. ——__>_ ACID. ENDS HER LIFE. Woman Who Swallowed Corrosive Potsen Dies in Hospital. old, of No. 74 Columbus avenue, died to-day at the J. Hood Wright Hospital, where she har been a prisoner since July % The woman took carbolle acid at her home last Thursday. ao JAPS NOT BUYING BALLOONS: PAMIS, July 2.—M. Kurtin, the Japenese Minister, denies the report nat Japan has ordered two dirigible balloons in Germany. 2) Pre furniture dors not mean high prices are arranged through CREDIT SYSTEM pede 14,75 Chiffonier In Golden with Fi plate mr, five. drawers. derpentina polished. Hi", 10.50 narts from 10 to 20 yards, suitable for tales (Sring size’ of room wit you), pice to safety. As the thirteen persons were | 5 Mra. Jennie Brown, thirty-nine years |_ THE EVENING SORLD. Tenement Where Firebug’s Bomb _ Cost 19 Lives, and Fireman Hero geal ADDED MONEY AT F)) EMPIRE MEET i | MILAOADS HI | BACK AT STATE N CURT GI ASHEVILLE, N. 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