The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-08-21
A Death TRAP. II
Frightful Loss of Lie in Burn
ing Tenement House.
Nine Persons Perished, the Majority
Being Smothered While Asleep.

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Thirteen tHmiiies rendered homeless oy
the bisTa aiss' when WAS CAUSED oy tine
Careies, less OF C"ok In Restaurant.
New YoNK, Aug. D-Early yesterday
morning fire broSe out in the kitchen OF
the restaurant on the store floor of the five-
story tenement M No s05 Seventh avenue.
N;ne of tho si~tv oda occunan,s of thehouse
r., 4. l.. -. ,,,o,,ao, ,ha,
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many more uiu nosperisn' ine ueau Are'
William Glennon, sixty years, purneu W
death.
Nellie McGcoghan, twenty years, smoth-
cred.
Mary Wells, thirty one years, smothered.
Jane Wells, four years, smothered.
Thomas Wells, two years, srlothered.
Bertha Lustig, forty years, burned TO
death.
William Mckee, forty-seven years, burned
to death.
Jane Jeffrey, sixty five years, smothered.
Unknown woman, forty-five years, smoth-
cred.
The list of injured is:
william Glennon, eighteen years, badly
burned.
John Glennon, badly burned and injured.
The building was occupied by thirteen
! families, who have been made temporarily
homeless by the fire. The flames did not do
much damage in the various apartments,
but burned out their strength in the hall
WAYS. The pecuniary loss will not amount
| TO more than $4,000. The fire originated in
the rear of John Snyder's restaurant at an
hour when all the people in the house were
sleeping soundly. Just how the fire startsd
is mystery, but as the restaurants cook Is
missing, il is fair to presume that an acci-
dent occurred while he was making the hre
in the big range. The awful speed with
which the flames swept up through the
building suggests the use Of kerosene by the
cook. The door leading from the kitchen to
the hallway was found open, and the great
volume Of fame rolled out into the passage
and swept up the stairway so rapidly that
families living on the first floor must newt
ably have persisted without so much as
warning, but II so happened that the rooms
directly over the restaurant were unoccu-
pied.
Less than half block away, on the cor
uer OF Twenty. eighth street and the ave-
nue., stood policemen Warner and McCul-
laVh. of the Thirtieth street station. They
received a warning from q cry of pain
which came from the building. and looking
in the direction whence IL came, saw a wall
OF FIRE beating against the front windows Of
the restaurant. By the time that realizing
sence of what the trouble was broke over
them. a forked tongue of flame shot out
from the roof and lighted up the uelghbor-
hood. With their clubs the two officers
beat in the front door, but a spiteful blaze
shot ont and warned them back. They tried
the noxt door and in that way found an en-.
trance. There was no sign OF life in the
building ana the oficers hurried from one
door 70 another to arouse the inmates. Muir
murines At first were heard. then a buzz OF
MANY voices which finally changed into a
wall Of terror and agony from men. women
and children. struggling for their lives in
the death tran. Fire escapes leading from
the burning building TO the rs vet untouched
4 tenement next door. were soon filed up
with hal f-nased people frantic 70 reach the
street. In the mean time the fire depart
ment had arrived and had begun work on
the flames.
The flames were extinRuished easily
enough by the fremen and the people on the
fire escapes were ali landed safely. Not one
person es .aped down the stairway, and, the
names of the few who tried are found in tho
list of the dead printed above. The search
for the dead was begun as soon as possible
The first body found was that OF old will
lam Glennon. The remains were discovered