Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — EIGHT PERISH IN THE FLAMES. [ARTICLE]

EIGHT PERISH IN THE FLAMES.

Terribly Fatal Fire in a New York Ter* ement House. Eight persons were either burned or suffocated in a fire in the three-story frame double tenement house, 45 and 45% Hester street, New York, early Wednesday morning. Of Charles Fass’ fafnily of six, only himself and ljjs 4-year-old girl, Pauline, are alive. Pass threw his child out of a window and Policeman Peter Hunt caught her. Then Fass 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 Jjer, but the flames drove them hack and she had 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.