New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-10
TWO MEN And MANY HORSES BURNED.
TERRIBLE RESULTS OF A DELAY IN SENDING AN
ALARM EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING.

RESULTS OF A DELAY IN oENDi4'' nav
ALARM EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING.
fire that destroyed the lives OF two young men
and twenty-sevcn horses broke out before 2 a. M
yesterday In OF several franc stable sheds on ue
south side OF East Thirty fourth-st less than hall
a block from the ferry Tho sheds belonged to d.
d. Withers the well-known horscman and were rentcn
TO a number OF persons who kept their horses thero
All the sheds old and half rotten ana thc loss
resulting from their destruction Will not Dc great
The starter of tho Avenue Railroad, whose oox was
at the end of the the stables. first saw the
flames and tried send out an alarm. HIS Key "ouu
not open the signal box at Flrstave. ana Ihirty-
fourth-st and a policeman tried with no better sue
cess An axe had to be used in opening the door
OF the box and several precious minutes elapsed peioo
the fremcn arrived
By that time the fire had spread to all the SHEDS In
the space between the railroad cut and
st. II was too late to the tweny-seven horses
although the fremen plainly heard the plungng and
snortinr of the poor beasts I'm the stalls oho
animal made its way out of the flames, but 1t was
burned so badly that 1t Shot As the fremen werc
fastening 10 throw streams OF water on the hames'
they wero shocked by the sudden appearance OF
young man who ran out of the blazing stable. HIS
clothes on fire and he had been burncd terrioy
about the head and limbs.
IL was soon ascertalncd that he was John Roach
age twenty-one employed by kormiwM BrothcrS'
newsdealers at No. 212 West Thirty -fourth-st lie
and Thomas Carr had gone TO sleep in the stable, In
tending go down town to the newspaper offices LOT
a load Of morning papers at abont a. m Carr, VINO
was nineteen years old and had been employed a
short time by the ncwsdealers. recently ran away
from the homo of his widowed mother at Hunters
Point.
When Roach ran out OF the stable he asked the fire.
men to rescue Carr who stl in tho stable, but
would been madness for any person to enter the
blazing sheds at that time Roach was carried 10
Bellevue Hos pital, where he died before noon. His
home was at No. 323 East Thirty -secondst, but he
had been accustomed TO take of the horses belong
Ing to the newsdealers and to sleep In wagon III the
stable.
II was a. m. before the fire out and the fire.
man and police could make search for the body OF
young Carr. William White, a man W.T. Knew inc
ns and outs Of the old stables. gave some help IN inc
search and found Carrs body under heap OF rubbish
IL was moved to the MOrgUe and information OF the
lads death was sent TO his mother
Korminsky Brothers lost four horses and severa
wagons, and their loss about 5000 Othef
losers were Michael Mcclure. 81 300 David Mahoney
So, 900; Edward Donohue, $1,000; Patrick Farley
400; William Barry $500 John Brady, 500; MIS-.
Lindsey 5000; Michael Nc Dcrmott. $500: Alexandei
Wallace $500; Thomas Mcclure, $200. 1t was said
that more than half OF the property destroyed was not
insured. Tho cause Of the fire was not known.