Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — EIGHT PERISH IN THE FLAMES. [ARTICLE]

EIGHT PERISH IN THE FLAMES.

Terribly Fatal Fire in a New York Tci - ement House. Eight persons were either burned Or suffocated in a fire in the three-story frame double tenement house, 45 and 45*X) Hester street. New York, early Wednesday morning. Of Charles Pass’ family of six, only himself and his 4-year-old girl, Pauline, are alive. Pass threw his child otit of a second-story window and Policeman Peter Hunt caught her. Then Pass escaped. Mrs. Anna Horowitz met a horrible fate. Her night robe caught fire and she was burned to death on the fire escape in sight of the helpless crowd. Firemen and policemen made frantic efforts to save her. but the flames drove them back and she bad to be left to her fate. Policeman Fitzgerald rescued two persons overcome by smoke. The house in which the catastrophe occurred was a ramshackle frame building which for many years has been a landmark on the East Side.