Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-02
THE NEW YORK FIRE.
List of the Killed, Wounded and Miss
ing.
NEW YORK, Feb. |.

| The fire at Beekman street still shoulders.
| The dead are Ellen Bull, colored. and X. 5.
Davev, printer. of the Scottish American.
The missing are Blair, Mary A, compositor
! on the New York Observer; Cunningham,
| Joseph, foreman of the New York Observe 5
composing room; Dempsey, Juo., engineer
of the Scientific American; Dietrich, Gus
tave, ID. A., draughtsman for Mum TO. ;
Harris, Alfred w, assistant foreman in the
New York Observer; Harris, Edward r. {;
! Hayman, agent of the St. Louis Publishing
Co. johnson, Henry p. compositor on the
Scottish American MAILER, +. $, clerk for
Mr. Todd, counsellor at law; Mccormack,
ID. A., boss painter. working in the building
at the time of the fire; OConner, Mary j.,
employed on the floor; Sands. VIM. j..
Smitn, Mary, employed on the third floor /;
! Stubs, VIM engaged in the office of the
Scientific American as photographer of pa
tent models Treadway, Robert, compositor
on the New York Observer, Injured-Rob-
ert Bow lie, compositor on the Scottish Amer
lean, badly burned in the face, neck and
arms, will probably recover, at Chambers
Street Hospital. Bowie was told by Mr..
Stuart, editor and publisher of the Scottish
American. to run, the building was on
fire. Bowie did so, first getting his coat and
hat and after stumbling through the flames
anu stlbkt. anu tiiiouSh otdiAtdsS
which was partially burned, was picked up
almost insensble by firemen.
! Col Sanders ID. Bruce, editor of the Turf,
Field and Farm, was burned slightly on the
right side of the face and whskers and eye
brows were singed; Leslie COombs Bruce, son
of Col. Bruce, left hand burned; Charles +.
Harris, severely burned about the face and
hands. compostor in the New York OBJ
server Office, and nephew of the missing
man, Alfred w. Harris Edward Moore. fore
man of the Scottish American composing
room. badly burned about the face and hands,
he will recover; Walter Norris. employed by
/ j. W. johnson, slightly injured.
Two employees of the New Y rk Observer
were burned about the head and face. The
names and residence were refused. and they
went home. Charles White, of San Fran
cisco. proprietor of the Pacific Newspaper
| Publishing Co., whiskers and eyebrows burn
| ed
! Coroner Hermann will mpannel jury
today, aud investigate the cause OF the fire
! Rev. +. ID. 6. Prime and DIR. Stoddard
editors of the Observer. saved themselves by
! climbing out of "a window and clambering
/ along the signs until they reached the window
( of the Times office.
I From the street no bodies are in sight in
| the ruins. 1t is too early to look for them
until the heated mass in the pit has beer
cooled down sufficiently to allow its being
worked over. 1t cannot be known certainl y
how many charred corpses are underneath
/ The police are endeavoring to gather correct
! particulars as to the missing persons. A
/ City Hall Park. this morning, no additional
names of persons supposed To have lost theil
/ lives by the fire. have been recorded
! a thorough search for the bodies in the
\ ruipS no. commenced Tbs
friends of Joseph Cunningham. foreman OF
the Observer comp sing rooms. today, mott.
flee the police that he was certainly among
/ the rufus.
| \ fireman who entered the ruins to secure
a rope around a wall AYERS he saw the body
of a man fearfully burned lying close to the
wall.