New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-15
4 JANITOR'S WIFE KILLED.

TATAL IVJURiEs CAUSED By LEAP FROM BURN
INC NUILpING-ALMOsT A PANlC-TOrAL loss
~ TIE TIRE sIXTY-rIvE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
The printing establishment OF The Church
wan contained IN throeStory building III the rear Of
No47 Iatayetioplace destroyed by ire yesterday
afternoon shortly after O'Clock, and the
many people employed there barely escaped
with their lives The building was OF brick,
erected years aeo, when The Charehman
moved 10 this city from Hartford 10y NJ H. Mallory
The ,u il her of the paper IL extended hundred feet
toward BroadwaY. wing az the southwest corner CIV
irT II TIE OF L. Adjoining the rear wall were
broadway TO the nOrth a large building
Owned Dy Woods d Co, and occupied by A. stewart *
Co a. workshop for several hundred girls aud women
Al aey hardly fee; vide separated the walls Of The
two bu ldlngs. On Elfayeieplacc the front building
No a. lid from view the burned cdihce aud on the
south the Oriental boarding house adorned IL. Only
marrow alley leading along the old Globe Theatre Bald
lng on broadway admitted approach to small
ysrI directly under the windows or the 1antors
room IN tho southern wing OF the Churchman Building
On the second floor OF this the composing rooms
md on the third tue editorial and prooirooms and the
iantor quarters On the first or groundnoOr the Gel
luo.d shoe Protector Company mad Office and factory
aud IN OF its quarters, on the same hoor' was
The office II Albert Kdder q Co., brass finishing and
electro-ie dca apparatus In the basement were two
new aud valuable Hoe presses and large quantity OF
paper recently purchased.
TIE lamps had been lit, and John Kenny, q clerk In
The employ of the CellulOd Company, was delivering
message 10 H. ". Mitchell, the president having Just
returned IRON au errand. lie changing MS coat at
the same iime and the skirt hit oil Lamp standing
near Oh a box. The burning huid poured over
a piece of canton flannel lying on chair aud set
AZ on TIRE. quantity OF manufactured ceuulo.d
extremely iuhammabie-was near IN an open closet
and IA an instant the whole place was filled with
Hlmes Tie clerk and Mr.. Mitct II mad barely time 10
escape 10 tine ron; building before the flames lesped to
The % above and alarmed the composllors, sixteen In
number. who were working there. Dropping their
suck trey for life. and not minute too soon.
shoutin 20 prOo'readors above and those in the
editorial rooms To follow. one OF the compositOrs
Mis- Fogarty, found escape shut on, and
resoluiciy graspIng the rope In the elevator
used for lowering the FORMS slid 10 the basement.
reaching there with lacerted hands, hut Otherwise I'M
injured Mrs Clark. proOfreader in the third story,
found descent impossible and breaking a window In
the wall adjoining the Stewart workshops. jumped
across the narrow alley separating the two buildings,
followed by a man who had first vanity tried to reach
The floor below. The two chung 10 window
in tie stewart building, and were helped IN by
Edward Roche and william Murphy, two Iaors work
ing there.
Tue ianors wife, Mrs Augusta schafter. was in her
room looking down upon the little yard in the OF
the Globe Theatre building The compostors Ia their
night heard her before the OF the
nancs drowned all other sounds Nothing was heard
or seen OF her after that till twenty minutes later
ROuutsiIau Clark found her hall Unconscious IN the
narrow alley leading MP from Broadway. She had
fuu, O.. from her window, hid Drokea her spne and
xas fatally injured. she cared for In and
sent Z, S. Vucenis Hospital soon rs an ambulance
could pc procured report came an hour later
that she Lad there. The re in less time than
took the nearest policeman to send out an ALARM fol
lowed immediately by general summons to the entire
nre department. had seized every floor OF The building
and the buildings adjoining on every side
Tongues Of flame dar;ed over TO the windows OF the
Stewart building and alarmed the $50 girls, women
and men al work there ana panic with disastrous
results WAS threatened. Tho confused throng that
crowded toward the doors met by squad Of police
promptly sent from the Mercer Street Station,
and by their hrInness what threatened 10 prove
building Was cleared with all possible speed. and the
that vaiuy endeayorod 10 catch, from any point,
view OF the fire. Only the ud glare OF the sky showed
lis location from without there not CLEAN OF fire
70 De -een The buildings shielded II On every side.
Toward saying these the efforts Oi the nremen were
mainly and successfully directed Inc stItame frOn
thirteen engines prevailed after throcquarters OF
hour OF hard work. Little damage had been done
any other property than The Churchman Building. but
and the presses In the basement were sAN-d from
destruction, though much injured by the Wator and the
falling floors The building was DESTROYED, and the
rear portion OF the hOnt structure containing The
ChuT-hudH's mail rooms, the Office ~ Inc h0ttQrdH
and Office Of john Austin Stevens, Editor OF The
HefOyrGi Magazine was DHdy scorched In me Church
mans conpesIng-rOOms the forms Of The Spirit
on NtssiOas The lOUng ChrSffdH Soldier. The santa
gian and paper published for the Bible Society ready
The total loss by the fire estimated at $4,000.
The Rev DR.. NJ H. Mallory who arrived at the burned
building al D. said that his loss would amount 70
ABOUT $4,000 The rear building. which was entirely