Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-02-09
FIRE And GAS.
These Two Causes Destroy Property
and Endanger Life.
A FIREMAN FATALLY HURT
Terrible Panic in New York City Fiat.
Leaky Gas Pipe Almost Kills Five
Persons-FIames Reported from
Divers other Places.

ELIZABETH, y. j., Feb Am exciting
fire, attended by a probably fatal accident,
occurred here Daniel Cunninghams resi-
dence, on West Grand street, was totally de-
stroyed with all its contents The money
loss was 5000
The members Of the family were nearly
stifed By the smoke before they could escape
ia their night clothes One, an aged woman
and beiridden invalid, was carried out by
the fremen at the risk Of their lives.
John Have, the veteran fireman Of Protec-
ton Engine company, was thrown from the
Machine by the horses running away as they
came ont OF the engine house, and it is feared
he IS dying. The maddened animals gal
lopod nearly a mile along the sidewalk with
the steamer before they were caught.
LEAKY GAS PIPES.
NEW YORK. Feb. ga leak in the gas pipe
ia the cellar Of the four story tenement house
at 24l East Seventy fifth street nearly caused
the death Of five persons When discovered
in tho morning the people were in an advanced
state of asphyxiation, and only by determined
action were they brought back TO life.
The parties affected by the gas were James
Rogan, aged % years, and his wife Mary,
aged p; Alice ONeil, % years of age; Mary
May aged IL, and her brother, Anthony
May, aged Is.
The Rogans and Miss O'Neil lived ON the
top floor of the house, the others on the first
floor Inmates on the other floors, although
the gas penetrated their apartments, were
not SO seriously affected
Mrs. Rogan and Miss ONeill were in such
n condition that they We're taken to the Pres
byterian hospital The others were revived
at the house 10y being taken into the open air.
FIRE AND PANIC.
NEW York, Feb. "a panic was caused
among the inmates of the fiat house ITO East
One Hundred and Ninth street, caused by
their sudden awakening at cries of Fire"
The building is four story brick structure
The first floor was occupied by Solomon Con-
stein, wife and four children; the second by
Julius Dreyfuss, wife and five children; the
third by Abraham Strauss, wife, mother and
two children, and the top fat by Paul Fuchs,
wife and three children-twenty-t three people
in all The fire was discovered on the third
1oor shortly before o'clock
Mrs Strauss, the mother of Abraham
slept IN a bedroom adjoining the dining room
and kitchen. She is over 20 years old, but is
stin bright and spry. At about 4:45 o'clock
she was awakened by choking sensation in
her throat. She sat up in bed, and then dis
covered that the kitchen and dining room
were ablazc and the apartments full of smoke.
She got out of bed, went into the front room
and aroused her son and daughter-in-law and
then FASTENED through the house, alarming
the othw tenants. and then Strauss ran out
into the street to the corner of Fourth avenue
and One Hundred and Tenth street and sent
ia an alarm.
The old lady who had discovered the blaze
took little Minnie Strauss, aged 8 years, in
her arms aud rushed to the street
There was no time to save anything. The
smoke was sitting and the panic stricken i'm
mates rushed to he street for their lives
When the Fuchs family, on the top floor,
were awakened they tried TO escape by the
stairway, but escape had been cut off by the
flames and the dense smoke.
Paul Fuchs has been sick for Tour months
with facial paralysis, but with the aid of his
daughter Annie the family managed to escape
to the ROOF before the flames could overtake
them.
The fire had a good start on the firemen,
and it burned up through the flooring and
rushed up the elevator and air shafts with the
ftay Of furnace.
It was not until long after o'clock that
tie engines left, and when they did the two
upper floors were Quilted and the remaining
portion of the building flooded with water.
A MASSACHUSETTS MILL. BURNED
WORCESTER, Feb. 9.-The Riverdale cotton
min, at Northbridge, was burned this morn
ing. 1t was owned and operated by the Paul
Within Manufacturing company. The loss
wiz be total, and win reach $4,000. The
mill was lG0 feet long, % feet wide and two
and a half stories high. At least hundred
and fifty hands are thrown out of work.
MINOR FIRES.
R0cKLAND. Pa. Feb. 9.--Fire destroyed the
Allegheny Valley railroad depot here We'd
nesslay night, together with the dwelling
houses ct Mrs Esreiine White and Mrs Por-
ter Mrs. White was so terribly burned that
her life Is dcsl,aired of. Oscar White was
also severely burned. The canse of the fire
was a defective fue. less 5000; no in
surancc.
CINCINNATI, Feb "a small dwelling
was burned in Covington, KY, last night,
aud Mrs Mary Henderson, an inmate, per-
fshed in the flames
CHICAGO, Feb. "A private school for
the education OF deaf AMI dumb children, at
The corner OF y abash avenue and Sixty-third
street, was burned last evening. The schQl-
nrx. seventeen small boys and girls. were res
cued safely but badly frightened The loss
is about $4,000.