Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-08-20
A FATAL TENEMENT.
Nine Persons Perish in q New
York Fire.
THRILLING SCENES OF PERIL

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suited in the death Of nine persons.
The outbreak occurred at an hour
when all the tenants-numbering over
sixty-were IN their beds. The scene Of
the fire was the five story building at
No. S0S Seventh avenue, the ground
floor of which was occupied as restau-
rant Il was in the kitchen Of this es-
tablishment that the blaze started, and
tie flames swept through the five stories
70 the roof with lightning fapidity, shut
ting off escape by the stairway.
Those who escaped did 50 by climbing
into the adjoining buildings by means
OF the fire escape
The Dead and Injured.
The list Of the dead is as follows:
William GIennOn, 90 years old. burned TO
death.
Nellie MoGoeghegan, 20 years old. smoth-
cred.
Mary Wells, 81 years, smothered.
Jane Wells, years, smothered.
Thomas Wells. years. smothered.
Bertha Lustlg. ~ years. burned 70 death.
William Mckee. ~ years. burned 10 death.
Jane jeffrey, o5 years, smothered.
Annie Lyons. t5 years. stout build. medium
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Following are the injured:
William Glennon. Jr.. IL years. burned on
hands and feet in making his escape.
John 0iennon. badly burned.
The Cook Disappears.
Precisely how the outbreak occurred
the police could not ascertain. The cook
in the restaurant disappeared. Without
a doubt 1t was in making q fire in the
range. The awful swiftness of the blaze
suggested the use of kerosene.
AT 4:5J a. m. two policemen saw a
blaze at the windows Of the restaurant.
The officers lost no time, and the avenue
was soon filled with their cries and raps
Of alarm. They at once kicked in the
door of the burning tenement, only to
be driven hack by the rush of fire and
smoke. The policemen hammered on
the doors of the house next door and
burst it open. There were fire escapes.
iron ladders running from house to
house. By these, If at all, the people
within the doomed house must be
reached and warned.
"A Fearful Panic.
Before running up the policeman cast
searching glance up the burning tene-
ment. Not a head was in sight, not q
human building, though the flames
blazed twenty feet in the air over the
roof. Outwardly 10 was as quiet as the
ad joining tenements
The firemen had come. Within four
teen minutes after the first alarm the re-
serves Of the district had responded to a
general alarm call with dozen engines
and half the anlbuIances OF the city hos
pitals were speeding toward the scene.
The policemen dashed upstairs, broke
into the rooms of the tenants, and. rum
ming along the fire escapes in front and
rear, smashed the windows Of the burn
ing building with their clubs, calling at
the top Of their voices to the people to
run for their lives.
No Escape at the stairs.
Not single person escaped down the
stairs. Those who tried to do 10 fell on
the thresliOld of their own doors dead.
and were found there.
The family of James Kloter, on the
floor above the restaurant, were among
those first aroused to their danger. Hus-
band, wife and four children slept in the
front room. The parents gathered up
the little ones. two each IN their arms,
and ran to the front. The flames were
bursting from the front Of tho store and
licking the iron Of the fire escape. They
rushed 20 the rear, but it was even worse
there. To venture out on the iron bridge
was to rush into the jaws Of death.
In desperation the six braved the dam
gers Of the front and climbed from the
southern corner OF the fire escape over
the next building. The awning under
their perilOus bridge was burning then.
and two minutes later escape that way
was altogether cut of.
Frank Wilson, another tenant, escaped
in the same way.
A Roaring Fnrnace.
The stairs and landings from the
street to the root were one roaring fur
mace. The roof itself was abIaze and
descent By the iron ladders was impossi-
Bile. The fire 6urst from the ground
floor windows, famed BY the draught it
made as Il burned. reaching alternately
haa across the sidewalk and far into the
back yard.
Such j sudden. tremendous food Of
water was thrown next through the
opening over the stairs into the burning
tenement that the lire was extinguished
In 3 few minutes. Twenty minutes
later men were cropping their way
through the building IN search of
bodies. while outside q crowd 0f half
clad, half crazed and hysteKical women
were wringing their hands and crying
but. Tor missing relatives. The search
ing party was made up o. fixemsn po-
licenlen and ambulance surgeons
Eindlng the virsIsha
Old William Glenn0n lay On the aoor
II his room. burned and dead. He had
arisen from his bed 70 tiy, but too Iafb
His far0 sons, John and William. who
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