Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-01-05

NEW YORK, Jan. IA fire broke out this
morning in the rear Of IS Madison street,
q ive-story tenement. Nine lives were
lost. as follows Ellen Sheridan, aged 43
years Kate Sheridan, IA; Maggie Sheri-
dan, s.; Martin Sheridan, 8 John Walsh
10 Thos. Cassiday, 6; Charles Cassiday'
8 a girl named Egan, 2, and Mrs. Sheri-
dan, age unknown. Several persons were
injured, among them James Cassiday,
Mary Egan and Charles Walsh. The fire
started at the bottom Of the stairs that fur
nished the only exit for the tenants in the
fifth story Of the building, excepting the
fire escape attached to the building out
side, and in less than five minutes swept
up the stairway to the roof, cutting off the
escape of a score Of persons. TIE hames
soon found vent also through the two
lower stories, and thus barred egress by
the fire escape. The tenants, panic
stricken, made d rush for the roof, but the
scuttle was firmly hooked, and would not
Weld. The ascending flames drove the
helpless people back within their rooms:
The widest confusion followed. Men and
women threw their children from the win
dows and jumped after them through the
flames that swept across the yard and set
their clothing ablaze. When the iremen
obtained the mastery the dead bodies OF
the nine, already mentioned, were taken
out of the ruins. Several Others were Sc
yerely injured. Eight families occupied
| the house, two on each floor. On the Sec
| ond floor the Egans and Muldoons had, at
the first alarm, escaped through the
| windows. Mrs. Mary Egan and her four
| grown children, Margaret, Thomas, JOS
| eph and John, reached the ground in safety
| by a quick jump. Mrs. Muldoon, who is
| over so wears old, was less fortunate; seiz-
! ing her two children, Annie, aged 10, and
Kate, aged 7, she sprang from the fire.
escape, but in the fall sprained and broke
| her leg, and crawled away with difficulty.
| A youth named Donnegan reached the roof
| of the burning building from an adjoin-
ing house, and with an ak opened the scut-
tie. Kate Sheridan, with q child in her
arms, appeared and endeavored to escape;
her clothing was already ablaze, and as
| Donnegan caught her arm the flesh peeled
from the bone, and the poor girl fell back
with the child into the flames. Pieces of her
| charred flesh remained adhering to young
Donnegan's hand. Officer Thomas Barrett
saved two children from the second story
by the fire escapes, but the flames drove
him away with burned hands. The fire
only lasted half an hour. Then the bodies
were recovered, and they presented a hor-
rid spectacle. Some instances of remark
able bravery and quick wit were developed
during the progress of the flames. Three
of the Egans may recover. Mary Null
doom saved her three grandchildren by
wrapping them in bedding and dropping
them into arms extended below. Another
victim, Mrs. Cassiday's babe, has just
been found, making ten. A plumber has
been arrested for causing the fire.
The Rebellion of the Beers.
New YORK, Jan. 4.-The Worlds Lon
don correspondent telegraphs: I have
just been informed by q prominent mem
Der Of the government that it has been de-
cided to first crush the rebellion of the
Beers in the Transvaal, and then take the
sense of Parliament as to the propriety Of
returning the territory to its original own
ers and allowing the establishment Of an
independent Republic.