Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-07
WENT BACK FOR GOOD.
Old Mrs. Miizcherling Perishes In The
Third Avenue Fire--A Whole
Tenement Gutted.
several Lives Imperiled--Ali Rescued
buta Lady OF Sky. who Returned
FOR Her saluabIes.

New lofk Star.
At O'Clock yesterday afternoon
messenger boy walked leisurcly into Rid.
ley's dry goods store on Grand street and
handed letter to MIR. Adolph Mltzcher.
ling, the floor walker Of the dress goods
department. He opened the envelope,
glanced at the signature Of Thomas Ever
est whom he knew to be the agent Of the
mouse Ia which he lived at the northwest
corner Of nth street and Third avenue.
linen he read the brief note Ii told him
that there had been fire and he had bet
ter hurry home. 1t did not tell him the
terrible news he would learn soon enough
that his home had been wrecked by the
IRE, that his wife Barbara, his eleven.
year-old boy and his baby less thaua year
Old had barely escaped with their lives,
and that his aged mother In attempting
TO save from the flames sum OF money In
gold and bonds that she had boarded, had
lost her He Mr.. Eyeresus brief note
told him none OF this, but It was all true
The building that is pretty vel Quilted
by the fire Is on the corner OF iilth street
and Third avenue, and one of a four-story
brown Stone row that extends northward
more than half the block on Third avenue
and about the same distance westerly on
lllth street. II Is the property of Joseph
IL Bearns, a Wholesale liquor dealer OF
No. 25S Washington street. On the south
side OF the second fat lived MIR. Mitz.
cherling's family. consisting OF himself,
his vile, u boy Of eleven, baby, and his
unfortunate mother, nearly sixty years OF
age
IL was 1880 when volume OF smoke
from the windows of Mr.. Mitzcherling's
fiat, followed by tongues OF blue fire, gave
the tlrst Indication that the building was
threatened. Only the women and the
children were In the house, except Mr..
| Davorens, who was In his saloon Then
a panic, few futile attempts 70 fight the
names. that let them gather strength, and
| for the moment no one thought OF spring
| ing the fire alarm that was Immediately
on the corner. Mr., Davorens had rushed
up stairs 80 save his family on the frsl
cutlery, and only when he saw the fire
! gaining did he lind the key and ring the
alarm This Is why the lremen were late
| The tenant had fed on the FIRST alarm
All escaped by the stairs or the fire escape
In the rear of the house except Mrs. Mit2
cherllng, her mother ln-law and Mrs
D0vorens. The latter reached the broad
cornice over the liquor store, and, fren
lied with the fire above her head, jumped
Into the arms of the willing crowd be
meath She was half dead with terror
but otherwise unhurt.
In the mean time young Mrs Mitzcher
ling, with her baby olssped TO her breast
had reached the fire escape In the rear
james Owens clambered up the fire escap
TO her assistance and half carried her an,
her baby TO the sidewalk,
"My mother my mother. Oh, save her
save herln the frantic woman cried
"she wouldn't come with me, but wen
back for her money!
Then went upa cry from the sea o
humanity maesed in ] nth street;
"Ihere's q woman az the windowin
So there was. IL was old Mrs Mitg
, cherling. She was at the open window
and could have stepped out on the fir
escape She appeared TO hesitate, an,
then disappeared. That was the last seel
of her alive. Her son Adolph said sh
had quantity OF German gold, and tel
German bonds OF $1,000 each, and tina
there is hardly doubt but that sh,
thought she had time 10 secure both anI
still save herself She was found by tn,
tiremen dead and charred beyond recog
milton, In crouching position, near th,
window OF the front room.
Three engines, two hook and ladde
companies and several hose carriages an
swered the tardy alarm almost instantly
and with quick but vigorous work the hr,
was reduced TO control and extlngulshed
MIR. Bearns, the owner OF the property
says he has an insurance OF $4,000 OF
the house IN the Greenwich Insulunc,
company. Coroner Eidman VIII proceed
with the Inquest to-day, and establish, 4
possible, the origin Of the fatal FIRE.