The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-23 00:00:00

FIRE IN DUBLIN.

Alderman MoNToomEtty -bald an-inquest yes-
terday (Monday, 19th inst.), at No. 19, Abhey.street, on the
remains of Mary Kelly, a young female servant, who fell a
victim to her humanity and modesty on the previous night._ It
eceruied had lived in the family of•. Mr.
Abbey-street, and that thelhouse
2,0101. putt,pe'
fire"deat r thatl
ca
-bcouutt the
:ar dat
t quarteri9past twelve o'clock on Sunday night.
She was at that time .in bed, with two young children. The
fire broke out in the tinder story, and speedily communicated
with the first floor, where a quantity of cork-wood, wee stored.
The whole was quickly In a blaze, and all the regular means
of ogees cut off by the flames. The girl, with great presence
of mind, caught the children in her arms, and ran with them
to the front drawing-room windows, out of which she threw
them to persons In the crowd, who had assembled in the street
in front of the house. They were received below, and,esceped
without the smallest injury. She also rendered' prompt 'lO
effectual assistance to the other inmates of the house, all of
whout were saved. She was then•pressed to think of her own
Safety, which she was told she might secure by leaping from
the window into the ants of some men below, who waited to
receive. her; she was thin, without covering, just as she WO
risen from bed on the first alarm; and, reluctant to descend
in that condition, and hoping to have time to snatch something
to wrap about her, •she fatally turned from the window for a
moment for that purpose. She had scarcely dope so, however,
when, dreielful to relate, the floor on which-she watt standing
fell in whit great suddenness, and she was precipitated into the
burning mass below She is supposed to have then made het'
way into the coal-vault, which site probably imagined would
prove a place of safety, but where her body YrA5.f.c.14.114 eater.
day morning bUrnt to a cinder I The" Jury, after hearing the
evidence,- returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."
The calamity is understood to basic been occasioned by some
clothes being pot to air on a wooden 'horee, in the kitchen, too
near the fire. They caught the blaze., and communicated it to
the floor abOve, where it spread rapidly: The house was burnt
to the ground, and the aqiairliag .ones very much injured.--
(Dublin Freeman', JoM*ll.)
It was • most:pitiable to wltnesit the distracted state of the
mother of the deceased 31ary Kelly, a.vtry. old woman, who,
was to be seen' antic' the crowd shrieking
.and wringing
_tier
Bands: in erect pestititre, half con-
from it. .11rheit the fire broke out,: it lieenia..therQ averts nine.
tierson4 in the house, namely,
situritits d;, in lilahe bbuiCkdYpa wits' found
hoitael' the.' head- had septititteit
All. igga .(the +swoon, his wife,
lour children, two A -Plnenticel, and 'the female gcrea-nt, whose
melancholy tete we have stated. Thetira lirSt discovered
by a publicanin the neighbourhood
slio:gaye tha.alarro by
ktiocking at the door; the proprietor of the,,house rousedthe
• y
other Inmates from their beds. An afrentic6, wheite lawny;
we understand is Michael floc •,
lately jumped in his
shirt from the froth window} Ile then procured a linip.
lighter's ladder, and brought two of the children into the
street. Mrs. • Biggs' titterwara, got on the 'Milder., when it
Woke her husband'handed down the other children 'fretti the
window, and then fidlowed himself*, having previtnisly
ndragged,.
the nfortunete servant-maid out of her bed.. It is said she ap-
peareel.ii t one of the front windows without tiny`c7otliin t; fit
It is presumed that she returned back from wrottil,a- of dalicaey
to gel aOIIIC, and thus fell a victim. The house was only ow:
storey above the shop, with two windows in front on the roof.
The owner of the house wits considered in the neighbourhood
to he in good bueiness. Ile had effected insurances on the
house, stock. Ste. to the amount of I,lloob, with the Royal
Irish and National Insurance (omparties.—f Dublin Norma:
Post.) •