Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-20
BURNED TO DEATH.
NINE PEOPLE PERISH IN ATENEMeNT-
HOUSE FIRE.
a Mother Found Knoeilng In the Floor
Clasping Her Chlidrcn-AII
Nrrc Smothored.
rRy iolesrsnh o the nlma,cnl


NV Yorg, August 10 Early this morn
irg arc broke out in the kitchen 0f
, .tagrnnt on the stOrc.GoOr Of tie big
fvc->,ory tenement ai sos Seventh avenue.
Nulc ~ the slXty-odd occupants az TIE
house lost their hives, and 10 Is a great Won
dor th4t many moro did not perish.
Tie dead are William Glcnnon. Nellie
McGooghm. twenty years. smothcrcd
Mary Wells. thiTty-one wears. -moihored;
sane Wells, four years, snoihcred Thomas
Wells. two vpirs. smclbcred Bertha Lrs-
tg. forty years burned % death; ". Nc
hec. forty seven wears, burned TO death;
Jauc-Jefroy. siSty-hyc yo.gs. sfnothnred;
Io unknown woman, forty-lye years.
fu0thfrcd
Thclsi OK thc injured is: william Glen
BON. eighteen wears. badly. John GlcunOn,
l1iic burned and injured.
Tho building Was occupied by thirteen
flm.lias who lave been made temporarily
homeless by FIRE. The flames did not DO
very much damage Don the various apart
m.nte. hut burned ont their strength u
The Railways. The pcouiDary loss viii not
amount 90 moro than $4,000.
thc flIe originated m rear Of John Sny-
'of's restaurant az am hour when an the
people ana tho hons, were sleeping soundly.
Just how tlr hre started IL as vet nystr-
~, huf n~ lao restaurants cook is missing
~ BEL Tar tp presume that the AC,idcu, 1c-
CURED while he was making FIRE in the
iis range. The awful speed with which
tne flames swept up through the building
Suggest the use of Kerosene by tho cook.
The door leading from the kitchen 90 tho
lAvry WIS found open and great volume
e.. fire rolled out into the passage and
swept up thg stairWAys ~ rapidly Chat the
families living on the hrst floor must ln-
CItlhiy have persisted without even SD
DECD f.faHr . I...r D hot
i'f' rooms directly over the restaurant
were uloccupicd On account OF tho heat,
Which seelcd 20 siit through tho flooring
1rnu thc raugn underneath.
Tess THAN hall % block away. OH the cor
,.nr If Ihiriy-cighth street and The ave
luc. etpnt Policeman Warner and Police
lHar Mccullough, If the Ihirtiotl-Straot
station. Ihey received a warning from the
cfY 0i pain which Camc from the building,
anl. looking in the direction whence 10
came, Saws "a wall OF fire beating against the
front windows ~ the re-. taurant. BY the
fWo ttly realized what The trouble WAS
81 iotk,d tongue If flame shot ont from
fh" roof and lighted mp thc neighhoTh0od.
with th0v clubs the two officers beat
az the front door. Tot tho sptcful blaze
shot Out and droyc them back. Jhcf tried
tle next door, and I'm that way found on
entrance. There were uo signs of life m
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Ile tre-'ecs.c, loaai.s from tso burn
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i4lfral..d n,.,n,l IN t6o,noai. t.mca alarms
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....r.. .e,.,D M WORK IN tho eomce and a.
t..tinr tho fri ,i,f.o,l inmates
m. thames ,e.re rvlnr1i-led eas;lv
,.9lr-h b, fhe tro-ncn. ana all th. pc0ule
.,. fl.. r-.-..o.,f.o. ,.-.-. .rfclv landed rot