Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-04
Eight People Are Known to Have Been
Killed aad Fourteen Injured
Others Are Missing
The General Panic ard the Hardness
Of the Piremen the Cause Of the
Great Loss Of Life.


NEW YORK, May 3.--6hortly after
midnight this morning fire broke
out in five-story brick tenement
house at No. 672 First avenue. Three
alarms were sounded and two ambu-
Isnces wero called. The fire was dis.
covered In the rear Of John Hum
phreys' restaurant. 1t extended to
the roof quickly through an air shaft
and the house was
SOON FILLED WITH SMOKE,
which prevented the occupants Of the
upper stories from escaping. The
Humphreys occupied rooms on the
second floor over the restaurant.
He and his child got out safely, but
Mrs. Humphreys Jumped from the
window and
BROKE ROTH HER LEGS.
On the same floor Elizabeth Hens
Icy was found dead.
Ida ROUGH aud her child were res
cued by the police.
John Hanlsn, who helped to carry
Mrs. Humphreys across the street, says
he saw q dozen dead bodies taken out
of the building.
The ambulance surgeon says four
teen people were taken from the house
to the Bellevue hospital, and it ia
thought that eight or nine OF them
were dead.
Another Account.
Another account says that the ten
ants became panic stricken. Some
jumped TO the streets from the win
dowg and others rushed down the
stairs, falling over each other and suf-
fering injuries Of n more or less serious
nature.
At 1870 IL was found that ak lives
had been lost aud fourteen persons
were injured. The dead were
JOHN HUMPHREYS, his wife, four
months.old child and servant girl.
Mrs KREPCHAMER, a widow.
ELIzABEra HENsLEY, aged TWEEN
ty-two, who jumped from the third
story.
The wounded were; Three adult
females, who were suffocated and
were suffering from burns; one had D
broken knee, abe having jumped from
the top window; four men, two
women, three boys and one girl, all
sutiocated aud bruised,
The fire was soon cxtingulshed, and
the damage to the building was slight
CHRIsrINA KoBRNER, age forty.
eight years, who lived on the fifth
door, also died from sulfocation.
Her son, Albert, sixteen years old
was suirjcated and was taken to tn,
hospital.
Her daughteraged nineteen, Jumped
from the window OF room ON the
tltth door and was missing up to . n
IN.
TWO FIRES An ONCE,
When the alarm was given the en-
ginea OF the district were putting on
small fire and this delayed then
somewhat In getting to First avenue
When they did arrive they found tn
house surrounded by great crow;
while
THE WOUNDED, DYING AND DEAD
were lying on the sidewalks and Ii
the halls and bed rooms. The cries @
agony we're terrible.
A general alarm was then sent on
and the ambulance doctors aud polio
came to the scene. The wounde,
We're selected as rapidly as possible
from the dead and conveyed to III
hospitals.
TWELVE FAMILEs OCCUPIED tn
HOUSE.
OF course, all were asleep at the hou
the fire occurred. The stairs wer
next to lmpassssble and the window
were used IA egress.
Mrs ] SoHRANIER was smothere
in her room,
Her three children have not been a,
counted for.
Three young men who jumped fror
the third story were saved.
AT $3.50 a. m. the census OF the ter
ants was still incomplete. One woma
on the top floor OF the house threw he
baby out OF the front window
Policeman Flaherty caught tn
child and saved its III,
He carried II, somewhat Injured, 10
house near by, where 1t was propcrl
cared for. It's mother went back fror
the window aud was not seen agar
tits supposed that ehe was suifocatec
THE DEAD.
LATER. Eight persons are know
10 have perIshed in the Are last nigh
In the double brick tenement on Fir,
avenue. They were
JosEPH HuMPHREys,
HENRY HUMPHREYS,
Miss ELixABErH HENLEY,
MRS, CHRISTINA KoRRNgR,