FATAL EAST END FIRE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1732, 24 April 1913, Page 10

FATAL EAST END FIRE.

TWO LIVES LOST AND SEVERAL .INJURED. EXCITING BESCW3 WORK IN DENSE SMOKU. Two lives were lost and exciting rescuo scenes were witnessed at an early mornim; fire at (it) Cable Street, in tho. East End of London on March 4. Tho victims were: Rebecca Hamer, aged 7, and Emily Cole, aged 2U.' The child was burned lo death, and the woman fell from a window and died later the London Hospital. I'our other members of the Hamer family and John Holland, aged 25, Jliss Colo's fiance, were severely ijurned, and are in the same hospital.

The building, a three-stove,veil one, comprised a shop, .-even rooms, and a basement. llanier and his family of nino occupied the shop and the first floor, tho (jirl Cole and Holland and his father lived on tho top flow, and the basement ivaa occupicd by a negro rag and bon» seller known as "Darkie." Tho iiro apparently originated in the basement, and tho flames spread with rapidity to the upper (lours, completely; cutting off escape by means of the staircase.

A train on the line at the rear of tho houso stopped, and the occupants aroused the neighbourhood with wanning .shouts. Million Abrahams, a, tailor, living next ilr.or, ami :i baker got ;i small ! pair of stops and placed it against tho wall, while a police officer climbed up. Women were hanging out of (ho windows and screaming for help. Three children were, handed down the policeman. Rachel Hamer. aged 23, jumped from (he first' tloor window and fell on lo the crowd below. ner father knocked the window out completely. anil came out on to the leads, from which lie and Mrs. Hamer wero assisted by the policeman. Emily Cola was hanging out of the top pinclow and screaming. She fainted anil dropped from the window, crashing risrht through tho iron grating of tho cellar amid the (lames. Fire and smoke were pouring out so ftercely that it was, ten minutes before the firemen could rcscuo her. Kho was then unconscious. The elcfc* Holland was resulted from the top floor by the firemen. His son was seen climbing out of the wiiuhiw as .though to iump. All his clothes had hseu burnt off him. He was brought down tho escape. Alec Hauler, aged IS, a. sun of tile tenant, wlm was sleeping with his brother Faninel, aged . 13, and his sister Farah, ngod 11, in (ho first floor back-room, broke. Iho glass of (he window and jumped out to the ground, about 12 feet below. Then his brother jumped, and his sister threw herself out. of tho'samo window. The smoke was so thick at tho time that Alee iuteed her, and she fell to tho ground and was picked up unconscious. AVhpu the fire was extinguished the girl Rebecca was'found lying dead in the front bedroom on tho first floor.