The Portland daily press., 1882-02-02
THE NEW YORK FIRE.
Fifteen Lives Thought to be Lost.
THE RUINS NOT YET EXPLORED.

NEW YORK, Feb 1.-The fire at Beekman
street still shoulders. The dead are:-Ellen
Bull, colored, and r. S. Davey, printer of the
Scottish American.
The missing are:-Mary Blaur, compositor
on the New York Observer.
Joseph Cunningham, foreman of the New
York Observer composing room.
John Dempsey, engineer OF the Scientihc
American.
Gustave d. Dietrich, draughtsman for
Mum q Co.
Alfred w Harris, assistant foreman in the
New York Observer.
Enward r. Harris.
- Hayman, agent of the St. Louis Pub
fishing Company.
Henry P. johnson, compostor on the Scot
tiSh American.
e. S. MAILER, clerk for Mr. Todd, counsellor
at-law.
d. A. Mccormack, boss painter, working in
the building at the time of the fire.
Mary j. O'Connor, employed on the third
floor.
William L. Sands.
Mary Smith, employed on the third floor.
William Stubbs, engaged in the office of the
Scientific American as photographer OF patent
models
Robert Treadway, compositor on the New
York Observer.
The injured are,-Robert Bowie, compositor
in the Scottish American, badly burned in the
face, neck and arms; will probably recover.
NOW dL OldIuD6r Sbf66b lOSp1Dal. bOWl6 was
told by Mr.. Stuart, editor and publisher of the
Scottish American, to run, as the building was
on fire. Bowie did so, first getting his coat and
hat, and after stumbling through the flames
and smoke and falling through staircase, par
TALLY burned, was picked up almost insensible
by the firemen.
Col Sanders D. Bruce, editor of the Turf,
Field and Farm, burned slightly on the right
side of the face and whiskers and eyebrows
singed.
"a
hand burned.
Charles f. Harris, severely burned about the
face and hand, a compositor in the New York
Observer office, and is a nephew of the missing
man, Alfred W. Harris.
Edward Moore, forman of the Scottish Amer
ican composing room, badly burned about the
face and hands. He will recover.
Walter Norris, employed by j. W. Johnston,
injuries slight
Two employees of the New York Observer,
burned about the head and face, names and
residences refused. Went home.
Charles White, of San Francisco, proprietor
OF the Pacific Newspaper Publishing Company,
whiskers and eyebrows burned
Coroner Hermann empanneled jury to-
day to investigate the cause of the fire.
Rev. Il. ID. G. Prime and DR.. Stodart, edi-
tors of the New York Observer, saved them
selves by climbing out of a window and clam
bering along signs till they reached window
of the Times office.
Quito u uuInDor Oh people Ingef arOuHu
the scene of yesterdays fire. The Kelly build
ing in Beekman street is not as badly injured
as supposed. The granite of the front is split
| and cracked in one place, and some OF the
sandstone lintels are cracked. The brick work
is blackened. The window frames are burned
and charred, and quantity of sashes that had
just been stored in the building were destroyed.
| The old Evening Mail building, like the Times
building, is chiefly damaged by water. From
the street no bodies are in sight in the ruins
1t is yet too early to look for them Until the
heated mass in the pit has been cooled down
sufficiently to allow of its being worked over it
cannot be known with certainty how many
charred corpses are underneath. The police
are endeayoring to gather correct particulars as
to the missing persons.
| 1t is thought the search for the bodies in the
ruins can be commenced tomorrow. Friends
of Joseph Cunningham, foreman of the OBJ
server composing rooms, to-day notified the po-
lice that he was certainly among those buried
| in the ruins.
| A fireman who entered the ruins to secure a
rope around wall AYERS he saw the body of a
man fearfully burned.