The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-23
TIE FIRE RECORD
Disastrous Fires IN Philadelphia - Five
Persons Lose Their Lives at "a Fire
in Pine Street.


tween 6snd o'clock this morning in the house
Of John 4. King, No. 1,jSs Pine street. The flames
made rapid progress and three dwellings were de
str0yed. The occupants of Kings residence were
aroused by the heat and smoke only to discover
the usual means Of egress cut of. They raa TO
the windows and most OF them jumped out. Mr.
King appeared ct fourth story window
aud was seen TO make an effort
to lump, but was overcome 10y the
heat and fell back into the flames. HIS ehsrred
body was found after the fire was extingushed.
Three people who jumped to the grOund-two
female servants and sister OF Mrs. kmg-also
lost their lives Mrs. King appeared at the win
dow crying for help mattress was held by tue
hremen, and she was told to drop her baby first
and then jump herself. She did so, and received
severe but not dangerous injuries. The baby was
Killed.
The body OF Mics Hamilton, sister OF Mrs
King, he's been recovered. Four people in all
were killed. The Kings were among the most
fashionable and popular people in the city.
The following is a list OF killed and wounded:
Killed John A. King, aged 80. retired lumber
merchant, burned 70 oeath IN third-story front
room; Miss Jennie Hsmilton. aged p, a sister of
Mrs. King and daughter OF DR.. HGm .ltOn, burned
in the sixth floor Her body was charred beyond
recognition; John King, years old, was cropped
from a fourth story window, and apparently
caught all right in mattress by the ffemen, ont
died from the cOncussion Mary Burns, aged Is
servant girl body burned 10 a crisp: Mary, color
ed. eged -, another SeIYant, burned 10 4 crisp
Injured Mrs. Lillian King, daughter OF DR..
alter her children, aud alighted squarely on
mattress but was severely hurt by the conclusion.
Lillian King, aged three years, severely injured
about the body and limbs by being thro Sn from
the fourth story to a mattress: Catherine ---
aged twenty, another servant girl, was badly
When the Ere was discovered the neighbors
raised an alarm, but two other fires were ia
progress in different parts OF the city at the same
time. and 10 was three quarters OF an hour before
the fire engines came. Mean while Mr. ana Mrs
King and others OF the family could be seen In the
" 4 nj nrff MI
Mrs. King was ia her night clothes, bat was
markaOly calm, and babe her children be brave
che then called 10 the neiehbOrs assembled below
10 get mattress. and they were not long IN
spreading the pavement With mattresses and
blankets. Inen hillng her boy TO a widow
Sill she told him 10 be brave ana jump
He seemed plucky little fellow, five years old
lie jumped aud struck the mattress fairly and It
seemed Is II ne was safe, but he was so badly
shaken that ne died ia two minutes. Then Mrs
King poised her daughter Lillian. three yeas
Old on o window sill and dropped her fairly on
The mattress The child was nurt but not killed
Turning for moment then. 70 address n word to
Der husband, Mrs. King mounted the window sill
. and deliberately inmped Of with as much calm.
ness one might jump into bath. Her
hisht through that great distance
from the fourth story seemed 10 end in safety, but
she was found to be unconscious aud badly hurt
Her husband was about TO follow her. but seemed
70 be calling on some one behind him, probably
MISS hhmllt0n, when the spectators we're h0rri.
fed by the sudden beiching forth OF broad sheet
OF flame, 10y the liGht Of which Mr.. King was seen
10 throw NJ MS hands aud fan back out OF sight.
AZ the same time another crowd at the back OF
the house were Mortified to witness similar
shocking sighu. Miss Hamilton having been
driven by the flames 20 the fourth story back
window. and being unable to stay in the room,
aud afraid TO jump, she hung by her hands out.
side the windOw-sil until utterly exhausted. She
let 90 and dropped to the pavod area below
Whom picked up enc side OF her body badly
burned, showing that she had been literally
burned on the window.sll.
Livery stable aDd Horses burned.
NtW BnrAty, Conn. Feb 2i-At 9 o'clock This
morning IRE was discovered iu the livery stable
OF Bailey Is bunting, situated In The rear OF Main
street. n gained such Roadway that three ouca.
pants OF the stable oive barely escaped with their
lives while fourth "a Rowley. was burned 10
death. The nte spfead to ianse wooden block
on thufCh street, occupied by " ~, eindinEs
furniture DEALER W II, Allen, baker. n, Roberts
hhtnetsl eps laundry, aud several tnnpnipntH aud
got hevnhd control ~ the nfamen. The lire spread
from ihutth street nutth 10 Main street Hump
merchants saved theft goods hui most ~ them Loaf
every thing thosn burned out were r. -. os.
norm efutefl - n hftumefl Restaurant g.. a.
smith, nsh market On Main street, Uhas 10y
mont, boots qua shprsl vs. A bwieht, ieWeief
riy stole The following lose everything. Cohen
Miller ~ 4 NrUfHe htllfff, ifil1Hl NJ n, Felt
at ahUdsl p, HthmidL taiiefl 81 y, t0BmiH
boots and shoes a hp Hfus.i hardware, ana y
fNnlt. photographer 40 q central Hlneh large
Il lf story bflrhi orphuH1 hf thu luuuu Nsnt
thHtuHn Association, auufnpfs, nu Telephone
Company aAd others vas the iHsl Zee burn tpss
fhptW insured iUf fi1,np1 Ten nnfshs were
consumed