Date: 04 Sep 1904
Place: 164 Attorney Street, Manhattan, New York
I came upon this news article while searching for something awhile back. It actually comes from a newspaper in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
A five-story tenement house caught fire at 2:40 in the morning from a candle that was left burning in the hallway on the third floor- worship for the Jewish New Year celebration the next day. The lower floors were torn out to make room for an arcade while the upper levels housed 13 Hebrew families crowded into three upper rooms. Apparently, when the fire broke out, many of the adults were at the synagogue while the children slept, hence why so many children died. The fire escapes were removed from the East side of the house pending all of the lower renovations.
(I highly suggest reading the whole article- there are more details about more details on escaping & heroic acts- I will post the article towards the end of the post)
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| Obviously the building is no longer there because it burned down, but this is the current location of where the building was in New York. |
(I was going to research each person/family, like I usually do in these types of posts, but the information available is just so little. The number one thing I could find on most of the victims- Their name, death date and "about" birth year on the "New York, New York, Extracted Death Index". These families were probably fresh immigrants and hadn't really been documented in census records (my assumption)).
Full Article- The Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania)
05 Sep 1904, Mon
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