The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-22
APPALLING SCENES
At the Pine Street Fire, Philadelphia,
At Which Five Persons Lost
Their Lives.
Ten Horses Burned In a Livery Sta
ble-The Notorious Cardiff
Giant Cremated.
TIE FIRE RECORD.
Disastrous Fires In Philadelphia - Five
Persons Lose Their Lives at n Fire
in Pine street

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. g.-A FIRE broke out be-
tween and O'Clock this morning in the house
of John a. King. No. 1889 Pine street. The flames
made Hpid progress and three dwellings were de-
stTOyed. The occupants of Kings residence were
aroused by the hea. and smoke only 10 discover
the usual means OF egress cut ef They ran 70
the windows and most of them jumped out Mr.
King Iappesred st a fourth story window
and was seen 10 make sn effort
to lump, but was overcome by the
heat and fell back into the flames. HIS chsrred
body found after the FIRE was extingutshed-
female servants and sister OF Mrs. king-also
lost their lives. Mrs King appeared at the win
fremen, and She was told 70 drop her baby frst
and then jump herself. She did 50. and received
severe but not dangerous injuries The baby was
The body OF Miss Hamilton. sister OF Mrs.
King, has been recovered -Four people N All
were killed. Ihe Kings were among .ne most
The following is q list of killed and wounded.
Killed John A. King, aged So. retired lumber
merchant, burned 70 death in third-story 'front.'
room Miss Jennie Hamilton. aged D. a sister OF
Mrs. King and daughter of DIR. Hamilton, burned
in the sixth floor bier body WAS charred beyond
recognition John King, years Old, was dropped
from q fourth-stOry window, and apparently
caught all right in mattress by the hremen. but
died from the conclusion; Mary Burns, aged Is.
servant GIRL body burned 10 a crisp; Mary. color
ed, aged 20. another servant burned TO q crisp.
ln1ured-MrE. Iliiien King. oaugnter OF III.
Hamilton leaped from the fourth story window
after her children. and sliehted squarely on
mattress but was severely hurt by the concusson:
Lillian King, aged three years. severely injured
about the body and limbs by being thrown from
the fourth story TO mattress: Catherine -.
aged twenty, another servant girl. was badly
burned.
When the Ere was discovered the neghbors
raised an alarm, but two other fires were 10
progress In different parts Of the city at the same
time, and II was three quarters of sn hour before
the fire engines came. Mean while Mr.. ana Mrs.
King and others OF the family could be seen In the
fourth story, with all means OF escape cut OF.
Mrs; King was in her night clothes but was re-
She then called 10 the DeighbOrs assembled below
10 get mattress. and they were not long in
spreading the pavement yemen with IN mattresses ana
sill she told him to be brave aud jump
He seemed q plucky little fellow, five years old.
seemed as II he was safe. but he was SO badly
shaken that ne died in two minutes. Then Mrs.
King poised her daughter. Lillian. three years
old, on a window sill and dropped her fairly on
the mattress. The child was hurt but not killed.
Turning for moment then. 70 address word 10
her husband, Mrs. King mounted the window sill
ness as one might jump into bath. Her
fight through that great distance
from the fourth story seemed TO end in safety, but
she was found TO be unconscious and badly hurt.
Her husband was about to follow her. but seemed
to be calling On some one behind him, probably
Miss Hamilton, when the spectators were horri-
fed by the sudden belching forih of q broad sheet
OF flame, by the light OF which Mr.. King was seen
10 throw up his hands and fall back out OF sight
A. the same time another crowd az the sack OF
shocking sighR. Miss Hamilton. having been
driven by the flames to the fourth story back
window, and being unable TO stay IN the room,
and afraid TO jump, she hung BY her hands out
side the windowsill until utterly exhausted. She
let 90 ana dropped 10 the paved ares below.
When picked up tne side OF her body was badly
burned. showing that she had been literally
burned Off the WindOW-sill