Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29

| New York The other members of his
family who lived with him a. home were
Silima, his wife, aged fifty-fve Deborah
| Stiner, their daughter, aged twenty one;
her younger sister, Flora Stner, aged sew
enteen; and one son, Joseph Stiner, aged
| twenty years. Besides the husband and
wife and three unmarried children, the
! only occupants OF the house in Sixtie1h
street were two maid servants, Mary Ma
gure and Mary Kahn; and man servant
named Alfred +. Schultz.
On Monday night all the family except
| Mrs. Stiner, went to an evening party at
the house of some friends in the neigh
! borhood, Mrs. Stiner remaining at home,
| being very cOrpulent woman and hav-
ing been confined to her room for some
| time, suffering from dropsical complaint
| it is said. 1t was very late before the
| father and children returned home, and it
was one or two O'Clock in the morning,
probably, before tie family retired to
their rooms for the night, little thinking
of the terrible fate which was to destroy
| three of their number before another day
dawned. Shortly before six O'Clock yes
terday morning Waterman named
Fitzgerald, a fire insurance patrolman
named II. n Hardy, and the keeper of a
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nue. and Fifty-ninth street, saw flames and
smoke pouring forth from the second
floor windows, front and rear, OF Mr..
Sinners house. The last named person
heard the agonized screams of woman,
and then, he states, three pistol shots in
rapid succession Fitzgerald and the insur-
ance patroman gave an alarm at the fire
alarm box, and ran to the house and made
an Intellectual endeavor to get in. In the
meantime, young Joseph Stiner and his
sister, Flora, were aroused by the roar of
the flames, and both hurrediy dressed,
and managed to make their way down
stairs, Miss Flora going into her fathers
room, and her brother running the gaunt-
let of the flames until he reached
the street The neighbors had by this
time been aroused Mr. Manuel Il.
Balmer, and his son, Manuel De Forest,
living in the adjoining house, No. 26,
were among those who saw the necessity
OF Immediately resCuing any one who re
manned in the burning house. The young
gentleman climbed over upon bay win
dow in the back parlor of the Stiner
House, the top o! which reached nearly
| to the windows of the second floor. BY
standing upon this roof he was enabled 10
lift Flora Stincr from her perilous posi-
ton amid the flame through the window
and carry her to his own house, to IA
place of safety. Mary Kahn and the man
servant ran TO the sCuttle when they were
awakened, nearly sutiocated by the flames
and smoke, and, creeping upon the roof,
succeeded in making their escape through
the scuttle of one of the other houses in
the row. Mr.. Stiner, it is evident, was
not aroused by the fire until he was near
! ly sutiocated and blind, and he appears
TO have become confused and lost his
presence of mind. After his daughter
Flora had been rescued, he got out upon
the roof Of the bay window and tried to
jump into the yard of the next house.
This was a rash attempt, as the yards of
these houses are several feet below the
street level, making the height of Mr..
Stner's room three stories above the
ground. He jumped and struck on his
head against the fence between the two
Enclosures. His skull was terribly fractur-
ed, and he must have died instantly.
A few moments aiterward Mary Ma
guirc, the remaining servant, jumped
from an upper window to the roof of the
bay window, and then insanely made the
same terrible leap which, had caused her
employers death She Yell near him and
fractured both thighs Here she was
found by the police of the Nineteenth
Precinct, grooming with agony, and was
removed in an ambulance to Bellevue
Hospital by Warden Brennan 1t was
then discovered chat Mrs StiPcr and Miss
Deborah We're missing but Joseph, the
son, and the neighbors hoped they had
escaped and taken refuge somewhere; and
ii was not until the FIRE had been entirely
y,,,t L.. ~. IL.
fate was ascertained. Then the members
of the Fire Department searched through
the ruined house, scarcely more than the
four walls of which were left standing,
and in what had been the room of Mrs.
Slner their eyes behcld horrible spec
taClc.
\ Perehed amid the still smoking ruins
sat beautiful parrot, saved from the
flames by some singular accident, which
filled the air with shrill laughter, as if in
mockery of the terrible fate of its owners
On the bed lay the mutilated and almost
unacceptable body OF Mrs Stiucr, burned
to crisp and partially consumed In a
chair beside the bed, rigid and black,
were the chmrcd remains of her daughter
Deborah. She had been urged by her
sister Flora to flee from the house with
her. again and again, but NO" she had
firmly and calmly said, Not until mother
can be saved" and she would not move
from her mothers side. She had heroic
ally remained in the room, and there she
was found dead beside the body OF her
mother, having suffered all the horrors of
q death by fire from her Stcaatast alice.
TONY L. TrijuHe
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