New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-04
DEAD FROM sUFFoCATIoN.
EIGHT VICTIMS OF THE FIRsT-AvE. FIRE
LISTS OF THE DEAD AND ISJuRED-UsELEss HALLS
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EIGHT VICTIMS OF THE FIRsT-AvE FIRE
LISTS OF THE DEAD AND ISJuRED-UsELEss Halls
| AND BLAZING FIRE ESCAPES.
The bodies Of seven victims of the fire that broke
out in the tenement house No. 672 First-ave.
shortly after midnight yesterday lay all day ON
| the stone slabs in the Morgue, and were seen by
hundreds Of friends and relatives who came to
search for the missing and try and identify tho
dead. They Lay clad in their night clothes just
they had been caught in the fatal smoke and COW
cred with strips of oilcloth turned down TO expose
their features and there nothing repulsyc about
| the scene for the faces Of the dead were not
| distorted if they had died In pain. but bore
rather the peaceful expression of slumber. Two
bodies lay on one slab, that of Joseph Humphrey.
the restaurant-keeper In whose kitchen the flames
are supposed to have originated, and his four
months-old child. Lying in alsmall room separated
by glass partition from the other was the body Of
q woman.who was entered on the record Of tbs
Morgue keeper as unknown woman, ago
fifty, dark hair slightly tinged with
gray, goes by the name Of Mary"
This unknown woman had been identified as a ser
want the employ of the Humphreys. She was
only known as Mary to the other inmates Of the
house. The body Of William Hurley, the eighth
and last victim of the fire. was at the Presbyterian
Hospital.
Coroner Martin and his deputy Dr. jenkins, were
early on hand to render the necessary official
sistance toward the disposition of the dead. Ths
dozen who were partly suffocated were with ono
exception being cared for in the wards Of Bellevue
Hospital One had been taken from the fire to
the Presbyterian Hospital. ALI the early
hours of the day the throng streamed
past the policeman at the little entrance
gate to the Bellevue Hospital grounds aud
besieged the attendants the office with inquiry
about the living else went to find their friends
in the Morgue Following is list of the dead aud
injured
THE DEAD.
HUMPHREY, JOSEPH, kept restaurant on the first
floor and lived with his wife and one child on the
third aoori an Englishman who had been twenty
Identified BY his brother who lives al No $40 West
Forty-iourth-st.
HUXLEY WILLIAM, age twenty-three, laDOrer He was
last alive the stairs trying TO his ais
ter and mother, who lived on the third door.
Paana %G pSs
was forty-eight years old native Of Germany, the
America She helped to support her family by sew
KoERSER, PAULIsA age nineteen, worked in the book
binding establshment Of D. Appleton 4 Co. she
fell from the window OF the top story after hanging
KRITzsMIR, RICHARD. age eleven He was taken out
of bed on the fourth floor south. He was gasplu8
his last when found by Fireman Morrison, Of Engins
many who had been five years in this country she
lived on the third n9Or Her body Was Vas hshlhsd h
No 23l East Twenty-ninthst
MARY, the servant OF the Humphreys She was said 70
be kin TO Mrs. Humphrey.
With the exception Of Paulina Koerner and Will
lam Hurley, all of these persons died from suffocs-
tion by smoke and were dead when taken from tie
house and put in the ambulances.
THE INJURED.
FLANxAaAS, WILLIAM age sixteen, was taken from the
HUMPHREY RosALiE, age twenty-five. wife OF the
taurantkeeper. She became frightened, and jumped
to the ground from the second oor breaking her LEG
HuRLEY, GEORoE age fifty. partly sufOcated and tn
HURLEY, MRS: ELHABErH, age nfty-nye partly sufe-
Gated. She delirious after she reached the
ptal was helped down from third-noor window on
HURLEY, LIZZIE, age twenty-five. Was thought to bs
dead ana the body OF Pauina Koerner ident-
fed as Miss Hurley partly sufocated
KoERSER, ALBERT hfteen lived with his family
the top foor and was taken out on ladder; parity
KoERSSR KATE age twentyeight worked in the fa,ns-
ly Of W. W. Appleton at No. as East Twenty-sT
5 s Pah6 hei
KoERNER, SOPHIA, age twenty was taken 10 the Pres
byerian Hospital suffering from shock and sufioca-
KRITzMMAR, MARTHA, age twelve partly sutfocated:
KRITzIIMAR, ALFRED, age ten He was injured inter
nally from being tossed down and caught by sro-
LEmBAcHER, KATE. age SIX daughter of Mrs Kate Lem
bacher. She tossed out OF the third floor window
and was caught by Policeman Flaherty; partly saf-
LEMBAcnER, Mrs KATE, age twenty-siI Her husbaad
is painter and they lived on the thirdhoor; parity
RoEmRIcH MRS. IDA age 22. Lived with her husband,
a carpenter. and three small children on the third
floor. She was partially sutfocated.
All the injured are considered TO be the road to
recovery except Miss Kate Koerner who was lass
night dangerously low. But few Of their anxious
friends and relatives were admitted to see the In
iured. But list made by the hospital officials
shown to all who came to seek for missing friends
CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
John Hurley identified the body of one of tho
dead persons as his sister Lizzie. He secured the
services of Boyl & Hopkins, undertakes at Nc.
670 second-ave., who removed the body to tho
home of relative of the Hur-
leys at No. sos East Thirty-ninth-
st. number of the friends
of the family called during the day and all wese
positive that the dead person was Lizzie Hurley.
except Lizzie Morgan, who persisted that it was
not her friend. She said that she had been to
dentists with Lizzie when she had some OF hef
front teeth filled with gold, and the dead womans
were not so filed Later Theodore Koerner went
to the house and identified the body as that OF
his sister Pauline 4i.n and in the nssnt: SsIltHn
Sae Sas. to al Snd said that s6e WAS Lizzie Hurley
Pauline Koerncr's body was removed 10 the evening
to the shop of the undertakors employed by ths
ladies' of Dr Tyng's church who have taken charge
of the burial Of Mrs. Koerner and her daughter.
The Koemer children were pupils In the sunday
The denizens of the neighborhood turned out in
swarms during the day and blocked the streets be-
fore the building in which death came unan-
nounced to so many. The house scarcely showed
a sign on tho outside, save the blaeksned
windows of the calamity of the night before
PoIice1,an Flaherty stsod on guard within tho
wire rope which had been stretched about the 'front.'
door and pointed out to the crowd the print of hs
foot on the door of the little oyster
shop which he had nicked the
night before. Humphreys signs, were knocked
down and his restaurant filled with ashes and rih.
bish. Inside the building the blackened aud
cbarred remnants of the staircase showedthe track
of the faIae and 1t was easy to see why the unfer~