The Penn's Grove record., 1889-08-24
4 TENEMENT House FIRE
NINE OF THE SIXTY OCCUPANTS LOSE
THEIR LIVES.
THIRTEEN FAMILIES HOMELESS.

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New YORK, Aug. 19.-Early this
morning "A Gre broke out In the kitchen
Of the restaurant on the store door Of
the big fve-stOry tenement az 5Uo
Seventh VENUE. Nine Of the sixty ODD
occupants OF the house lost their lives
and it is IA great wonder that many
more did not perish.
THE DEAD.
William Glennon. 60 years. burned
% death.
Nellie McGeoghan. 20 years, smoth-
cred.
Mary Wells, 81, smothered.
Jane Wells. T., sm0thered.
Thomas Wells, 2. smotliered.
bertha Lustig, 40. burned TO death,
william Mckee, Al, burned TO death.
Jane Jeffrey. TO, smothered.
Annie Lyons, As years. smothered.
THE INJURED.
William Glennon, 10 years. badly.
Iohn Glennon, badly burned and In
jured.
The building was occupied by Is
families, who have been made temper
arlly homeless by the FIRE. The flames
did not Go very much damage Ia the
various departments, but burned out
their strength in the Railways.
Less than half u block away, on the
corner of TweDty-eigbth street aud the
avenue, stood Policemen Warner and
McCullagh, of the Thlrtieth Street
Station. With their clubs the two
officers beat in the front door, but y
spiteful blaze shot out aud drove them
back. They tried the next door and IN
that way found an entrance
There were no signs OF life in the build
lug and the officers hurried from one
room to another rapping on the doors
with thei. clubs and calling to the
inmates to fly for their lives. Murmur
ings az first were heard, then q 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 trap.
Fire escapes leading from the burn.
Ing building to the ~ yet untouched
tel ement next door were speedily filed
up with half-naked people. In the
meantime alarms had been sent out
and the fire department were SOC at
WORK on the flames and assisting the
frightened inmates.
The flames were extinguished easily
enough by the tiremen, and all the peo-
pie on the fire escapes we're safely
landed. Not one person escaped down
the stairway, and the names OF the few
who tried it are found in the list IF the
dead as given above.
AS soon as possible the search for
tie dead tegan. The first body four q
was that of old William Glennon. The
remains were discovered by the side OF
the bed in his room on tile second door.
He bad risen to fly with his sons, but
his old legs were not nimble enough
ard he persisted. The boys were taken
to the hospital. They were badly
burned on the feet, caused by walk
lug on the hot iron bars Of the fire es
cape.
In the rooms Of the Wells family was
IA sgit which cannot easily be forgot
ter. In the middle Of the Il or knel;
the mother, Mary Wells, and in her
dead embrace were her children. Jane
and Thomas. They had been smOti-
cred, and not a burn or blister defaced
the pallor of their c~ountenances. The
nine dead bodies yer placed In the
%ambulances and taken 10 the Thirtleth
Street Station. Coroner Hanly gave
friends permits for the removal of the
dead.
Snyder, the keeper OF the restaurant
in which the fire broke out. was ar
rested en- suspicion OF being RESPONSE
BILE for lis origin. A policy OF insur.
ance for 81, on on his stock was found
n his possession. and an emp!oye states
that he found fat scattered over the
floor OF the restaurant.