New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-20
THE LATE FIRE ~ STATE STREET
rN.,I-EST BY CORONER HURON.

Csscner Hilton held on inquest, yesterday afternoon,
On ts bodies Of the I've persons who lost taer lives
Al TIN burning Of the teuementhouse, No. 10 State
tree, OF clock yesterday morning, and the folio ="
mo evidence was adduced:
HAIRY Lubs being sworn, deposed as follows; live
q. 70 Sse s,reet oee'ss'd was my % no
h var. farther than Fredeea she sept on the ouh story
cs rom, sbov O'Clock tbs morning was awakened BY
"a y o. Fre" sept 10 The sset room o. re second .toyi
rem yer, sespirs the with opeaios room
a. 80 children be snothered; took Of the
stnsr my and my wife took the other tFo and went
~" Fire ard Help" and about
cane 80 snd tod them to be,k open the bali dor and
S@.v- % rescue those who lived ssaip; they
Ss o7es but the s0ke dense they could not
10 M sre family h ~ he hr story con'iog Of
eyen W. my ba eoDy bsr d,dwo OF my ehbdrsn to some
psrsss who the balloon, OF tbs house 90 the other
Is wife sell took the other two and went upon
reef Of the house hs LAned then wsrt PscS ato the
es upcD The roof Of the house door
fund that the faoas Leading 70 the top ~ the hou'e
vs on hre did anything like turpenn. had
sed shorty before u oc ook had servants the deceased
snd another they sep, together 10 back roorn when
% Sos and osd h d0 and ~e
vssp Get cpeDed ny room door after bearing the cry Of
geh si he name Of my Other servant julia d. MT
BY prpps from thin dory window npon the balcony; she
said she die not ipuIe heief etheIs on in this way bat
mo- ~ % ou,s wss D~fped ou .a. Ist poroD
'rsusibs standings occupied ths rear basemsnt a.
front cellar In all
sSss in the house The from, door Is secured by na latch
Peter Frer, of No 40 Whitehall street testified that
ycr alarm fret given he standing 10 front Of bis
srs eths,s immedi.t ran 70 The fire. and entering the
boz SO saw woman lying 10 the hai she was badly burned
an sJ CONVEX cd her 70 ace of safety thsre was no smell
j. Kicbers, a servant in NJ. Lubss family, test
6,dt and Frederca remained up until Mr. Luis came
home ln both rered being awakened by cry Of
fe Ddesvored 70 get down stairs but could not witae.s
then Of window upon the balcony and thus escaped;
he Kitchen At &c ocs but saw no Ere and does
not h il originated.
Oliver ID. VstdeIbSrg testified that he occupied the
did; Pescock his wes mother the ssm Of ire
bDs given she down stairs from the fifth story an wit
o .uveloped in sn hat he lost ssht
Oher Lis wife aud babe escaped bat Aim de and Mrs Pea
ootk smotbereo.
The following j. a st ofthe dead aud injured:
Jene Brown twenty years of sge b,rn in England
desd The body tax en in charge By Elliot Little
johp, in the emp oy of the New-York and Savannah
steamship compspy
VIM. - nephew of Mrs. Brown, nine years of
sse and native Of this couutry-dead. The coroner
vss uns bic 10 ascertain his name
Frederca -, girl about eighteen years of age
born in Germ aDy-dead. She was servant Of Mr.
Lsbs.
Aimed c. vapdenburg, FIVE years OF age, born in
Yolk-dead.
Catherine Ann Peacock, born in England, aged
fty yeaIs-desd.
4 female named - Baker, lies at the hospital,
srd is badly burned.
Mr. VandeDburg sustained fracture of the right
ankle by jumping out of the window. and his wife
had Ter left arm broken in the same way. The
cerorers jury rendered verdict in the cases Of the
deceased, Of " Accidental DEATH"