The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-06

BURNED TO DEATH.
Secretary Tracey's Daughter
and Her Maid Perish in
the Flames.
Mrs. Tracey Killed in Jump
ING or Falling From Il Win
dow to Escape.
The Secretary Rescued by
Firemen in an VncOn-
SciOuS Condition.


Tracy this morning, whereby three per
sons lost their lives and three others were
badly injured The house is thrrr-story
and basement brick, situated ON l street,
between Connecticut avenue and Seven
trruth street, and has recently undergone
extensive improvements Persons pas
ing the house at O'Clock
this morning saw smoke issuing from the
front windows and at once raised an alarm
of lrr III, tire and police departments rC-
- .4.t,s-,.,,s.sS. lu}tII. rhr premises wers a
most Concealed Ivy a dense smoke, viii, h
was 1hirkcucd bv heavy tog which VS.
lust lifting 1t WAS ~uuH discovered
that the house was all aIIa1r INSIDE
and that the main stairway was
burnt, thus cutting otl communication
with the sleeping apartments on the second
and third floors. Several streams of water
were played ON the humrs and every effort
WAS made To check the tire and to rescue the
inmates. \ scene of the widest confusion
rn~ued when il wa known that the members
OF the family were in the house. The fire
men behaved like heroes in the emergency,
and Went
THRouGu FIRE AND SMOKE
III searching for them il their different
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BETWEEN LIFE AND nhAIH
She tell forty feet into an areaWay before
onvthinL could I've done towards rcScuing
utelv taken to the houe OF Il n";4ghbOr, DR..
IhcenI, and placed uPn-2o lounge IN the
sitting room. She was perfectly conscious
amduid not seem to suffer Jain. Occasionally
she complained of All oppression i'll the
neichborhood If her L"art, and found
difficulty in breathing. She talked while,
coughcd slightly. and then became silent.
The physicians looked at each other sig
uificuntlv. Mrs. Tracy was dead. The i'm
mediate raase of her death was supposed to
be from injuries to her heart, sustained in
her fall from the window, which flooded
her lungs with blood. 1t is said
that had she delayed her movements
a couple of minutes Ladders and
mattresses and other means of safe escape
would have been at hand Her body was
soon removed to the residence OF Attorney
General Miller on Massachusetts avenue
Almost al the same time two bodies were
taken from the burning building. One was
the spcrctary'S daughter, Miss Mary, a
young lady, and the other was that
of the French maid, Josephine That OF
the former was
FOUND BY CHIEF PARISH
living ON the floor in the second floor hall at
the head Otthc stairs. The body was not
greatly distigured by the fire. She had evil
IDENTIFY died from suffOcation. The chief
lifted the lifelcss body in his arms, and, al
though the staircase was ablazc. he brought
it safely out into the street 1t is said that
Miss Tracy could have saved her
self if her strength had held out few
minutes longer. She fell in the
hallway of the second story, few yards
from the bath room, which, if she had
reached and closed the door, would have
insured her against the fire and SmokcNntiI
assistance could have reached her. OF the
French maid little is known, save that her
dead lody was found in her room on the
top floor of the house, burned beyond