Show LEAP FROM ROOF TO ROOF ESCAPING TENEMENT FIRE I NEW YORK PORT June 13 A A fire in tho the thoI I basement of oC No o. o 1 4 West Ono Ona Hundred I c and First street shot up the tho Ta stairway to the top of the where the flames spread liko like a J. J huge umbrella through the fourth and fifth floors imperiling the tho lives of flit fifty persons They were rescued res reli c cued from the fire tire escapes with ty There were tere eight families in the tho build build- ing The Tho fire escapes arc aro in the tho rear and in in a court between Nos Los 74 and 76 five feet wide wille at nt ono one part and three feet at another Ou On the east easl sido side of ot the tho top floor were Mrs Irs frs Louis Fairbanks and her er three e chil dren drew On the tho west side were the four children of John rohn Harnett a widower who was at work Tho The Fairbanks and the tho had time only to climb to the roof Miss Mamie Harnott Harnett a self reliant young woman wo wo- man mau showed the others what to do clo when the roof became red hot Going to the tho cd edgo e of the room she told toM the oth others ra to follow and leaped across the tho narrow court to the tho roof root of No 76 All of or the Jarnette followed her ber curl and then Mrs rs Fairbanks made mado the tho leap with her child in her arms A fourteen year old year old daugh daughter ter with a baby babl hU hugged c close made a the lump Imp with bar barely lv an inch to spare The fhe Fairbanks and the got ot to the street through No o. o 70 Those on tho the fire escapes mostly women women women wo wo- men and children ren were shrieking and a crowd in tho the street kept kept yelling ellin ng i in an n chorus of oC Dont jump Tho Those ose e in the time street had har not thought of turning in an alarm and a 1 coplo cople 0 01 of minutes of valuable time tinie were wasted asted before Policeman Stanton learned of tho the fire and sent in inthe inthe inthe the calL |