The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-05
FIRE IN NEW YORK-SIX LIVES LOST.

FIRE IN NEW YORK-SIX LIVES LOST.
New York papers give the following account of
a calamity which happened on Tuesday morning ::
1t appears that Mrs. Schlosser lighted a
phene lamp and placed it upon the counter in her
store No. 203 Division street; that during her abb
sence in the basement the store took fire, it is sup
posed, by the bursting of the lamp. The building
is four-story brick double tenement house, con-
tanning two families on each floor. When the alarm
of fire given the occupants of the house were
all in bed. The smoke soon penetrated to the hall
way and became so dense that all chance of escape
by the street door was cut off. Mrs Schlosser and
her three children escaped uniniured.
Second floor, family of Charles Feidler, four per-
sons; all escaped by jumping out of the window
Mr.. Feidier badly hurt on leg.
Third floor, family of Robert Burns, self, wife and
| five children. They all escaped to the roof except
Emily, child of five years of age who was suffo-
Gated Her body was taken to the station house
Fourth floor, Mrs. Nolan and son; escaped to the
| roof.
Building No. 2O31l-Second floor, family of Mar
kus Nathan, consisting of self, wife and FIVE chill
dren. Mr.. Nathan took two of his children to the
| roof and told them to remain there. He then re-
turned for his wife and other children but en-
| tering the room, he found thew had jumped from
| the window to the sidewalk. At that moment he
| heard the two children he had taken to the roof
calling for him, they had followed him back into
| the building and were suffocating with the smoke.
he went in search of the children and was not seen
again until his lifeess body and those of his chill
dren were taken from the ruins by the firemen.
Third floor, family of Moses Crossman, consisting
of six persons. They all escaped to the roof except
| the boy Leab, aged about four years, who in
the darkness and confusion was lost. He suffo-
| Gated.
Fourth floor, family of Andrew Cosgrove, six
| persons in all. They made their escape to the
roof. An old woman aged about fifty years,
named Mary Dwire, who was stopping with the
family, was suffocated. Her body was taken to the
| staton-house.
Officer Dufon was the first to discover the flames.
| Upon opening the hadoor he Mrs. Schlosser
in the hall endeavoring to gain entrance to the
store by the side door. She said there was sixty
dollars in the drawer, and she wanted to get it.
The officer drew her back, and endeavored to shut
the door to prevent the fire getting upstairs.
Before the Hook and Ladder Company could ar
| rive, gentlemen got upon rail in front, and
holding cornice by one hand, with the other re-
ceved several children from another inside,
and passed them down into the street. Then a
woman was handed down in the same way.
| The man who bad handed them out then jumped
off the window, and was hurt considerably al
| though not seriously. Another young man. in
coming down the rail by the side of the house,
caught his arm on one of the butchers hooks, ter
| ribly lacerating the limb.
1t appears that there was no scuttle to the houses
otherwise every life light have been saved
THE LYNoHBUkG EXTENSION oP TIE ORANGE AMI
| ALEXANDRIA RAILRoAD.-With thu exception of the
bridge across James river, the Lynchburg exten
sion of the Orange and Alexandria railroad is com
peted. The bed ofthe road is finished, and the
rails are laid to Lynchburg with the above excep-
| tion. On or about the 18th of the present month,
it is thought the road will be opened for travel and
| trade. The opening OF this new channel will be
| the means, we hope, of speedily increasing the
trade with Alexandria, as we will then be brought
| into immediate communication with the richest
| portions of the State, and with the great South
| west.-Ale1andria Gazette