Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-03
FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK.
Six Lives Lost and Fourteen Persons
Injured in Tenement.

NEW YORK, May 3, 4 a. NAT 1850
O'Clock this morning fire broke out in a
room at the rear of John Humphreys
liquor store, at No. 672 First avenue. The
building is five stories high, the upper
floors being occupied as a tenement house.
The room spoken of was filed with trash
of an infammable nature and quickly
burned up, filling the house with smoke.
The tenants became panic stricken. Some
jumped to the streets from windows aud
others rushed down stairs, falling over
each other and suffering injuries of more
or less serious nature. All the am6u-
lances in the city were called to the spot,
At 1 80 o'clock it was found that six lives
had been lost and that fourteen persons
We're injured.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
The dead were John Humphreys, his
wife, 4-months-old child and servant girl.
Mrs. Krepchamer, a widow, and Eliza
beth Hurley, aged -, who jumped from
the third floor.
The injured are:
Three adult females, who were suffo-
Gated and are suffering from burns. One
had broken knee. She jumped from
top window.
-Four men were suffocated and bruised.
Two women were sunocated and
bruised.
Three boys were suffocated and bruised.
One girl was sutfocated and bruised.
The fire was soon eXtinguished and the
damage to the building was slight.
Christina KOerner, aged 4S, who had
lived on the fifth floor, also died from
sutfocation. Her son Albert, rs years old,
was sutfOcated and taken TO a hospital.
Her daughter Pauline, aged 10, jumped
aeAn
floor, and was missing up to o'clock.
THE REsCUERs AT WORK.
Fireman Dalrymple, of Hook and Lad
der Company No. 4, got up to the fourth
story by means of a scaling ladder and
handed down several persons from the
front windows to the firemen on ladders
below. Among the rescued persons were
said to be members of the Stiner
family, on the third floor. Mr.. Stiner,
his wife and four children We're seen at
the windows, but 1t was afterwards said
that some of them had perished. One
woman on the top floor of the house threw
her baby out OF the front window. Police
man Flaherty caught the child and saved
its life. He carried it, somewhat injured,
TO a neighboring house. Its mother went
back from the window and was not seen
again. 1t is supposed she was suffocated.
Meanwhile some firemen had turned
streams of water on the flames, and it
was soon possible for them to go through
the house and search the rooms. They
carried out dozen persons who appear
ed to be alive, although insensible,
and tried to restore them. The bodies Of
five dead persons were carried into the coal
office adjoining and laid on ths floor. One
or two were partly dressed. They had
delayed too long in their rooms before
making an effort to escape. The appear
ance of all the bodies gave proof of a ter
rible struggle for life. None were much
burned. Before the flames reached the
doomed people smoke placed them beyond
the reach of pain. There were rs families
in the building. The flames went up
rapidly to the top of the house by way Of
the stairs, which were in the middle of
the structure. The Railways being on
fire there was no opportunity to escape
by the stairwsys.