The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-04

the damage to the building was slight
ChrlSiaua Koerner. AGED aS' Who
iived on the fifth floor, also d led OF suf-
tler sop Albert, IS years old. was suf.
located ard taken TO the hospital.
Her daughter Psulina, aged 10.
Jumped from the window of a room on
nhe MIN floor, and was missing up to
2 a. m.
When the alarm was sent out the an
giues of the district were putIing ont n
small tire, and it delayed the lreMen
somewhat in getting to First
avenue When they did arrive
they found the house surrounded by a
great crowd, and the dead, The diving
ana the wounded were lying on ths
SIDEWALKS and in halls and bedrooms.
THE CRIES OF AGONY
we're heartrendtng. A general alarm
was sounded ana ambulances,id doctors
anu policemen came TO the scene in
gQ0dly numbers. The wounded wera
selected as rapidly as possible from the
dead aud conveyed 10 Bellevue hospital.
twelve families occupied the house
VI course all we're asleep at the hour
the nre occurred. The stairs ware next
70 impsssable, and the scuttles we're
hard to reach. The windows wero used
as means OF express.
Mrs krechamer was sm0thered in
her room. Her three children have NOT
been accounted for.
Ihree young men, who jumped from
the thlrd story, were saved.
Az 100 the census of the tenants WAS
still Incomplete. Ii Is possible that
more persons were lost.
HORRIBLE INCIDENT.
one woman on the top door of the
house threw her baby OFT of the front
window. Policeman Flaherty caught
the child and saved It's lte. He carried
II, somewhat injured, 70 a neighboring
mouse, where IL was cared for. Tvs
mother went back from tho windog and
was not seen again. IL is supposed "a e
was sutiOcated.
LATER ABOUT THE VICTIMS.
ElgNt persona are known 10 have per-
ished in tho fire. They are:
Joseph Humphrey,
Mrs. Humphrey
Miss Elizabeth Hurley.
Mrs. Christiana Koerner.
Mrs. Nina Kietzmap.
Richard Keitzman.
VIM. Hurley.
Mary A. Hurley, sister of Mrs. Hum
phrey.
With the exception of VIM. Hurley,
u
out OF the building dead.
Beside the killed, there were IA ter.
sons injured.
Al the time OF the fire there were s
families In the house, with total OF 80
souls.
ESCAPE OF THE RoEHIoKs.
Mr.. Koehick, who lived on tho top
III or, was the only tenant of the build
ing that escaped without loss. When
the fire was discovered he closed his
doors and windows 20 keep out the
smoke, took his wife and three children
10 the front window aud passed one by
one down a ladder erected by the fire.
men. In an interview, Mr.. Roehick
| said:
The fire cut Off all egress by tho stairs
and the fire escapes. The wood flooring
oil the latter and tho boxes and wash
tubs stored thereon burned like tinder
and made the work of the fire escapes
SO hot 1t was impossible 10 get down. III
the people had only shut their doors and
gone TO the top OF the building none
Would have been killed. l saw Mrs.
humphrey In the hospital this morning,
fire.
Theodore Koerner stopped from the
/ sill Of his window 10 that of one of Roeh-
rick and followed the Roehricks down
the ladder.
Mrs. Burge, finding the stairway in a
blaze, got out OF her front window and
crossed on a sign, torn from an Office
next door and put up by the flremeu, to
a place of safety.
Phillip Limbachor was awakened by
the smoke. He reused his wife and
iour children and dropped them from
the third story window into tho arms of
persons below.
Mike Allen OF No. 2l0 East Thirty
eighth street, caught two OF them and
took them TO his house, whore the fran
TIC father found them about two hours
later.
officer Flaherty, who rescued three Of
koerner's family, caught third child
Of Iimbacher's.
Pauline Koerner jumped from win
dow ON the top floor.
The direct cause of the fatality Ia at
tributed 20 the tardy arrival OF the hook
and ladder companies and the panic of
tenants. The fire did not get beyond
the fourth floor Tho fire broke out in
the kitchen of Humphreys restaurant,
The police think it was due To 'carel cas-
ness ON Humphr, y's part, VINO, after
closing his saloon, left very hot 'firo in
his range. The loss in property was in
significant.
A village Destroyed by Incendarism.
kANKAKEE, ILL, May 3. Ate o'clock
Sunday morning IRE was discovered in
Mrs, Hibbard's millinery shop, at Ca.