Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-01
Death I'm the Flames.


THREk PERSONS PERISH IN A BURNING BUtlpIS0.
NEW YoHK, August 1.-The siN-story building
No. - ateI street. The upper stories which are
occupied 10y two families " lille the rest Il devoted
10 business pun O-to, caught IRE this morning OF
the i've per-olls ho wcrc in at the time Bartholo-
NEW o'kerIe. aged Il, lantor IN the building WAS
fatally burned about The head and body. Ann
Gibbons, aged -. married, and her children George
aged o. ana Jcln, Srd ,. we've all terribly burned,
aud are now ia The hospital JAS Gibbons. aged 4
another child, Mhnm TIE mother Was unable TO
rescue WAS burned 10 death. V. MARTINEZ Nbor q
tobacco merchant, occupies the ground floor and
basement OF ~ NaIcr street, and n. A gatable
& son. general Lle.thandl-e, the second third
and fourth stnT1 =. Ia the NTH John Glib
bons hNed with his vile, Ann, and their
over them in the top story were tlie rooms OF the
Janltor, Barla aloicmew O'heete and his wife, who
lived alone. fhe lanitor had been down with an
attack ol rheumatism. ana 10 this fact he owes his
probable death, ANA the vile her fortu escape.
When the fre broke out this morning she was down
stairs during her husbands work while he, bed
ridden and weak, fell an easy victim 10 the flames
How the lire started Is Lot Yet known. IL seen
suddt My in the Gibbons family rooms, While Mrs.
chlldreus' BREAKFAST Her husband. a car
penter, had gone 10 work, leaving every
Thing safe and the children sound asleep.
VI hiie about her household duties Mrsl Gibbons
SAM the dense smoke. She flung open the door OF
the room where her three children lay asleep. She
seized Tie baby ana the one nearest II and fed FOR
c. She mounted Two pair of stairs 10 the land
in-, when she sank ~ hausted with her effort and
nearly chOked la death with the thick smoke.
Brought 10 cons, iou-I,sS 10y her children's cries
and The singing o1 The lamts which had followed
her course up the stairway. MIS- G., 10y a superhu-
man effort, gathered up her children again and
made her way 10 the ro0i, Where she again sank
exhausted, the clothes oI herself and her two chil
dren being IN llameN.
RESCUED FROM THE ROOF.
Two police officers saw the woman on the roof
with her clothes burning and sent out alarm.
They then ascendtd rapiuy the stairs VI the ad-
joining house 10 The ruuI. Mrs Gibbons and her
children lay there their clothes burned 10 RAGS and
des on their Iac's ana hands fearfully singed The
police officers the burning clothes OF Them aud
carried tuem down stairs he poor woman then
told II tie child She had left To die, but II was then
too late 10 do anything, a. the NTH story 10 the
roof was a sond sheet flame Janitor O'keefe
had II uggled 10 the stairs and rescued too but
80 hauly burned that he cannot live The burned
people We're taken 10 the hospital When the fire had
Dtt tXthglshtd the body OF the little boy James
Gibbons MAS loud hear the bed, burned TO a crisp
He had ti1ed 10 follow his mother, but had been
suffocated 10y tie antohe, and Wa burned where he
lel- The flames made clean sweep In the upper
two stories, and burned through 10 the fourth.
Below tllat water had done the chief damage. The
loss 10 property WAS estimated at &l5,OJ0 dlstrbu-
ted as follows II. 4. Natable & Co. 5000 v. Mar
tneZ lb1r 5000, and the building. 5000. Losses
III the upper stories aggregate perhaps Il 900.
The nieInen were driven out OF the burning build.
Ing 10y the lire. and reached Its 10y way OF the
adjoining houses, Just after Mrs. Gibbons
had been taken down 10y the police. The
scuttle through which She had come up had fallen
baca, and when IL WAS broken open O'kcefe was
found crouchng under IT, half dead and vainly try
ing 10 lit IL. His vile had been Restrained by force
from rushing up into the fire when she learned OF
IL In The street. At Noon TIE four injured ones
were still alive NJ the hospital.
The losses 10 property are much heavier than at
flrSt reported. '. Martinez bOr & Co had 600 600
Key West and Havana cigars stored chiefly In the
basement, which Is entlrely tllcd with water The
stock was valued AT Si3 CO. which the firm counta
a. practically total loss IL Is covered by insu-
rance In SIN English companies and TWO Newark
companies. amounting 10 s4s 0lO. The loss OF H. A..
Nalabie Son, who owned The building, but had no
STOCK there, Is about slOO,tU0