Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-01-05
TEN PERSONS
BURNED TO DEATH IN A NEW YORK
TENEMENT HOUSE.
Women and Children 0eYOured by the
FIames-Exciting Scenes-Children
Thrown from the Siudows Sire
men He'pless-A hor-
,;b.s sTale.
AFeARFUL HOtoCAUSIIN NEW YORK.
TEN PERSONS BURNED ALIVE

TEN PERSONS BURNED ALIVE
In New YorS Tenement H0use-A
Fearful Disaster Hany Severely l. lur-
ei By lie p:nC from %;Li0ws
NES IOKK, January AT $40 this
morning, lire broke out in a tenement
1 i'm the rear OF James Doyle's liquor store,
| No. - Madison street. 1t started at the
bottom OF the stairs that furnished the
/ only exit for the tenants in the fifth
/ story OF the storo Its back door opens
| directly upon narrow hallway IN the
rear OF the tenement where the fire OBJ
tanned its start. Plumbers were
nj work at the loot Of the stairs thawim-
out frozen 2Oinch water pipe, and IoT
this purpose used gasoline. The vessel
was hv some means upset and becoming
isuitCd there Was
An Explosion.
Immediately there was Wild rush
overhead and the sound )t breaking
glass, and the air WAS filled with the
walls of imprisoned men and women,
and shrieks OF frightened children. The
fire finding vent through the open doors
sud windows of the untenanted ground
door OF the house and through the door
had seized upon the shutters, window
frames and the wooden floors oi the
balconys outside. licking them
up like - much tissue paper,
and reaching upward toward the floors,
where
Frightened Men aad Women Were Hud'
died Together.
afraid to venture out upon the fire es'
cape. that was itself flame, which in less
than nrp minutes swept through the
stairway to the rooi, cutting oil the es'
cape OF a score OF persons. The flames
/ soon found vent also through the two
lower stories and thus barred ecress by
| the fire escape. The tenants, panic
stricken. made arush Tor the roof, bit
the scuttie was firmly hooked AMI would
not WELD. The ascending flames drove
the people back within Their rooms.
| The widest confusion followed. Nsn
and women
I Threw Their Children From the Window
/ and jumped alter them through the
/ rianes that swept across the yard aud
I set their clothing on fire. When the
fireman obtained mastery, the dead
bodies OF nine persons who had been
burned were taken ont from the build
ing. several were injured in their
efforts % escape and were sent 10 the
hOgpital.
The following is list ol
The Dead:
Ellen Sheridan, aged Is years; Kate
Sheridan, age II; Maggie Sheridan, age
); Martin Sheridan, age :; John Walsh,
age Is; Thos. Cassidy, age. =; Charles
Cassidy, age :; q girl named Esan age =
aud Mrs. Sheridan, aye unknown.
Several persons were injured, and
among them james Cassidy. Mary Egan
and Charles Walsh.
Scenes and Incidents.
The Mcheuna family were saved by
iumpiny James, aye .; Hugh, age /
and the baty were thrown through the
window By Charles MckeuEa their
eldest brother. lai OF ID years. The
neither was sweeping in the yard when
the tire broke out She by her cries
aroused her children and imPlOrcd her
son 10 throw thc children 10 her. He
first threw the baby then the others, the
mother catching them all and
she finally broke her sons iall
Al III n
ON The fifth and topmOot story Mrs.
Ellen Sheridan was az breakfast with
tour children. The men OF th SO iaml
lies, as Oi all others In the house, had
gone to work. Mrs. Sheridan at the first
alarm gathered together her children
and sought escape by the stairs, but the
fire nal possession Of taem. There was
no succur from the street and she sought
the sruttip i'm the roof, but it was lm-
movable. She sErInk back IRON the
leap II the ysr'l five stories j. low, and
CLOSING the door ut her apartment 10
keep uu. tie rapidly advancing flames,
herself 1ri children we're sUitOcatet by
the smoke,
A youth named Doncgan, through an
/ adjoining house, had reached the roof
/ Ci The burning building, and with an
/ aNs demolished 9 SCuttie. Katy
/ sheridan with child in her arms
/ endeavored to rscaur. Her clothing
was ablalc, aad as the girl nearly
| reached the top she extended her arm
/ g. ponrsdn, Who grasped il, but the
/ ie,h peeled from the bone and the viri
/ ami child ieIi back into the flames,
! pieces ri the Charrti il'sh remaining IN
I the hands OF p2Heg.n.
Another victim Of the h,c was found
/ this altrruOou, making the total dead
ten. This ailitiou Ia the number is the
! bah, oi Mrs. CASSIDY, which was dis
covered wrapped Ia blanket and
/ ,aspci q ~" breast nj her dead
/ mother.
Timothy IiErtgtor, plumber, was
arrested IL Cuaig. = the whole GlsaS-
/ ter tu ,nc c,r-lessu,>s oi a hoy helper
4 named Mct.otu. Who has disappeared.
! Their employer MIR. Pattoa, Was also ar
rested. Tie inquest will be held next
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