The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-04
All Occupants of the Building Accounted
For with One Exception-The Direct
Cause of the Fatality.
A Terribly Fatal Boiler Explosion in
the fremont Hotel, Galveston.
Half Dozen Persons Killed and Number of
Others Seriously Injured-Remarkable
Flight of the Exploding Boiler.
THE TENEMENT-HoUsE DISASTER.

The Number of Dead Increased by Two
List of the Injured.
New YORK, May Eight persons are known
to have persisted in the fire which occurred last
night in the double brick tenement, No. 672
First avenue They were:
JOSEPH HUMPHREY, aged 35,
HENRY HUMPHREY, aged months.
Miss ELIZABETH HURLEY, aged %,
Mrs. C. KGRNER, aged 49,
Miss NINA KRITHzMER, aged 80,
RICHARD KRITHZMER aged IL,
WM. HURLEY, and MARY, a sister Of Mrs.
Humphrey aged 40.
With the exception of William Hurley, who
died this morning, all were taken out of the
building dead.
Besides the killed there were fourteen persons
injured. The following were among the injured
Mrs Ida Roehich, aged o. Albert Kerner,
aged 10; Miss Kate KGrner, aged %; VIM. Elan
agan, aged l6 George hurley, aged so; Mrs.
Elipha Hurley, aged 55 Mrs. Kate Llmbacher,
aged 26; Katie Limbacher, aged 6; Martha and
Alfred Krithzmer, aged respectively II and 10
years; an infant child of Mrs. Roehich
The following had each leg broken by jump
ing from windows:
Pauline Kerner, aged 10; Willie Liehmphul,
aged and Rosa Humphrey. aged IA
The last also suffered partial asphyxiation.
At the time of the fire there were eight fami-
lies in the house, with total of thirty-six souls
In the north building, Herman Liehmphul occu-
pied the second floor, with his wife and one child;
George Hurley the third floor with his wife and
four children; James Humphreys the fourth
floor, with his wife, infant son and sister-in-law
and Jacob Koerner the top floor, with his wife
and six children All of these have been &C.
counted for except Sophia Kerner, aged four
teen.
The police had the premises carefully searched
this morning, but no trace of the girl could be
found. The ground, or first floor, was occupied
by Humphreys as an oyster saloon. In the
south building Jacob Burse used the
first floor as saloon, and the second as
living apartments, with his wife. The third
foca-was occupied by Phillip Limbacher his wife
ands1esild; the fourth by Max Krithzn,er, his
wife and four children and the top floor by Her
man Roehrich, his wife and three children Mr..
Roehrich was the only tenant of the building
that escaped without loss. Immediately when
the fire was discovered he closed his doors and
windows to keep out the smoke, took his wife
and three children to the front window, and
passed them, ono by one, down the ladder erected
by the iremen. Mrs Roehrich, in an interview,
said she saw Mrs. Humphreys at the hospital
to-day, and that she said Mr. Humphreys set the
place fire.
Phillip Limbacher was awakened by the
smoke. He reused his wife and four children,
and dropped them from the third story window
into the arms of persons below. Officer Flaherty,
who rescued three of the Kerner family, caught
third child of Limbacher. Pauline Koernor
jumped from a window on the top floor.
The direct cause of the fatality is attributed to
the tardy arrival Of the hook and ladder compa-
MES and the panic of the tenants The fire did
not get beyond the fourth floor, except IN the
Railways, where the doors and window -coatings
were blackened and charred. The building had
a frontage of thirty FIVE feet, and was seventy
FIVE feet Deep The halls were three feet wide,
with stairways two feet ten inches in width, and
landings six feet ten inches wide.
Crowds of people visited the scene Of the disas-
ter to-day.
The fire broke out in the kitchen of Humph-
rey's restaurant. The police think it was due to
carelessness on Humphreys part, who often
closed his saloon and left very hot fire IL his
range. The loss of property was insignificant.
At II P. NJ. none of the patients suffering from
suffocaton had recovered consciousness.