New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-08

si"1t in The rear of the house
hui she was partly paralyzed and too feeble e,tner
to make great cutlery OF moVe ao' scare vaars
was sleeping with Miss Wakrman III sne non
the house and was acting as her nurse. one sboc
fernp GOOD deal Yesterday from the terri pc sn9oS
received by her nervous system and an injury W uo
arm but she was able TO talk sufficiently 10 i,Sr
PLAIN The manner m when mo.heI a." w. the alarm
cam. to Their death She said that 'e[ tno d
Miss Wakeman hYrrled her out into w n'ii ' ny
started her down the 81 airs. saying that Sne VOL p o
low with hermother hen she turnrd oach' ,S en-
kins grooed her way down he air' NEE .'ng man
and woman on the way. The three haJ gov 10 th5
first fight of stairs Then we were the last to
make their escape by The front door.
Miss Perkins heard nothing more OF Miss Wakeman
after she tnrned back, but it ia Dan That she died
because she would not deer her mother. Inc TWO
made their way down one flight o. stars, sank down
there; suffOcatrd by The smoke aud met DEAN TN
the firemen after the fire had BEEN sniff
GENTLY ,quelled to permit hose beng
carried in % the halls and up the ans. lucy
were carried into an adjoining house, from winch
they afterward removed TO me Morgu' IL al
ambulance. ,..l u;,o for
several years has rooms at No. 81 East Twentieth
st. He was on his way home from Albany when me ne
fire occurred. aud he dld not ifatn OF me Gr" Se
forenoon He appeared 10 be much shocked AZ the
news when he went TO the Fifty-mnih Street Rohce
Station 10 make inquiries. Dr. Dana, MIS- wake
mans physical, identified the lodies at the Morgne
and ob aimed from Coroner Martin permit for
their removal to an undertaking snop lne
Coroner said he would hold an inquest next
week. Mrs Wakeman was ffty-slx years ola anu
her daughter twenty-one.
THE BUILDING IN RUINS.
When the flames were extinguished 1t was seen
that the building was in ruins The front and side
walls remained standing but they were cracked
badly Parts of the roof and of the rear wall had
fallen in An examiner of the Buildings Bureau
who looked at the ruins said that the walls and
floors ought TO be braced up as they were likely to
fall The furniture, ornaments and clothing on all
the floors had been either burned or much damaged.
1t was not possible to get accurate estimates oil
losses and assurances yesterday. The DulldlnR,
which was insured was damaged about Too:0oo l. ne
losses to the occupants estimated by the po ice
at $40, 900 in the aggregate. Lyons, the )anlior,
furnished the following list of the occupants
II. s. Day, wife and daughter. and Mrs NJ ):
Mather and daughter; third floor, Mrs ). L.: MIG
and and sister, ste fourth door, Mrs Mary H. Wake
and nurse ft6 ana door Mrs.
NJ Myers son aud daughter. and the Rev. George
Waters, wife and daughter Besides Mr.. and Mrs.
Day, Mr. and Mrs. Waters were away from home at
N. Y. relative of Mrs King. was staying in the
house also. Mrs King stated that her loss was no,
the amount of either. Her diamonds were recov-
cred in her rooms in the afternoon Mr DAY nao
pictures worth about S3.OOO III MS rOoms. DIS iosS
was about $4,000 and the amount OF bis insurance
was So 900. Members of the Insurance iairol were
in charge of the building yesterday, and II was oe-
level that they would be able to save many vain;
able articles from destruction. WINE they anu
the fremen working about the RUNS at
D. H. a portion of one of the side walls IN tue rear
part of the building fell, and some OF the nyihs
fragments struck Timothy Fitzpatrlck. OF engine
Company No. 80. 1t was Thought at first that ne
was severely hurt, and he was taken to the Presby-
terrain Hospital Later in the day, however, be
was taken to his home No 224 East IwentY-hrSt~
st.
FOREMAN PERLEYs STATEMENT.
Foreman Perey, of Engine Company No. 80, said
to a TRIBUNE reporter: "We received the alarm
of fire nc 1855 a. IN. from Box 553, at Flfth-aye.
and Sixty fourth-st We responded at once; how
promptly you can Judge from the fact that the mes
senger boy who turned in the alarm found MS
at the fire when he got back to the
house. and be saws he ran all the way. We found
The fire blazing all through the house. and 1t must
have been burning at least IS minutes before we
GOT there | heard Immediately on arriving that
there people IN the house went IN 'he r. nan nan
with Fireman Cook. 1t was full Ct thick black
smoke we tbougbt we could 90 through the house,
Int found il impossible We did start up the stars
however. Al the top OF the first iiight we, met q
man and two women. whom Cook pioted to the door.
We went ND anotne flight but could not go any
further We then went next door, got on the ro0t
through the scutte. used the scutte LADDER 10 eet
the burning building and Oh ne nI,n 9ooi
Annie smith Mrs. Wakeman's coioIcd servant
drapglug some buuG, les about We brought her out
of danger, and Their beng no otacr. there we went
back first put IA Iine of hose IN the basement, ana
then another in the hal. We had dragged IL up, 10
the third floor when stumbled against the bodies
of the dead women. vhlch were Blng about lOuI
feet anart called Chief Fishers atten ion TO TIE
discovery and the hook and ladder men carried the
bodies down to a psrlOr on the hIst nO0r