OHLAN, MATTIE (NETTIE OLIN)

OHLAN OLIN, GLATSTEIN

Posted By: Judy Kelley (email)
Date: 11/25/2012 at 00:42:40

TWO HAVE NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH IN EARLY MORNING FIRE

CHILDREN OF MRS. MATTIE OHLAND JUMP TO SAFETY.

THE LOSS IS HEAVY

Building Is That Occupied By H. Glatstein and Stock Is Badly Damaged-Origin of the Fire Is Unknown.

In an early morning blaze today, which gutted one of the buildings owned by H. Glatstein at the corner of Mulberry avenue and Second street, Mrs. Mattie Ohland and two children, Mintie and Clifford, had a narrow escape from death. With both exits choked with the flames, Mintie, the 16-year-old girl, leaped, with her younger brother from a window to a porch one story below.

The blaze apparently started in the rear of the structure and none of the members of the family who occupied the top floor noticed the fire or smoke until they were awakened by the shouts of a neighbor, who, in order to awaken the sleeping occupants of the building, fired four shots from his revolver. When the family was around it was found that the flames, spreading rapidly, had cut off two hallways, the only means of egress, from the building.

Miss Ohland states that she and her brother were nearly overcome with smoke. She declared that when she awoke she was gasping for breath and heard her little brother coughing in the next room. She went in and awakened the little fellow and attemped to leave by the back, and then the side stairways, but found the hallways cut off. Once she came so near the flames that her hair was burned.

Mrs. Ohland conducts a boarding house, occupying the two upper floors of the three-story structure. Three boarders and Mrs. Ohland escaped to safety by means of a ladder which was extended to their windows.

The firemen responded promptly to the alarm and their efforts were successful, for the flames were soon exinguished after they turned the water into the building. The flames were not allowed to spread to the stored on the first floor, but the goods were injured by the water which dripped through the floors.

Mr. Glatstein states that the loss on merchandise is about $700, partially covered by insurance and the loss on the building #1,000. Mrs. Ohland's loss is about $400.00.

Source: Newspaper clipping with handwritten date of Aug. 17, 1910. Somebody crossed out the name Mattie Ohland and wrote Nettie Olin.