The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-04
lIUM MRS. TRACY DIED.
sho Dropped Forty Foet from u Window
The Secretary Improving.

HOW Mrs. TRACY DIED.
Sho Dropped Forty Foet from u Window
The Secretary Improving.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Another nc.
count Of the fire says: Mrs. Tracy eE.
deavored to escape the raging element by
dropping herself from her bedroom wiz
dow, and in her effort to decrease the
distance to the ground she grasped tho
narrow stone window sill aud lowered
herself rs fur as she was able. Those,
who saw her in her perilous position.
shouted to her to hold on, but either she
did not hear, or her strength failed her,
tor after thus hanging moment between
life and death she fell forty feet into
an area way before anything
could be done towards rcscuipr
her or relieving her fall. She was inn.
media.ely taken to the house OF a neigh
Dor, Doctor Rheem, and placed upon n
lounge, in the sitting room. She wns
perfectly conscious and did not seem to
suffer pain. Occasionally she complain.
ed OF an oppression in the neiehbor.
hood of.her. .heartand found dilIicultyin
breathing. She talked while, courhed
slightly, and then became silent.
The physicians looked ut each other
significantly. Mrs. Tracy was dead.
The Immediate cause Of her death was
supposed to be from injuries 10 her
heart, sustained in her fall from tho
window, which flooded her lungs with
blood. 1t is said that had she DELAYED
her movement couple OF minutes, lad
ders and mattresses and other means of
safe escape would have been at hand.
Her body was soon removed to the resi-.
dence OF Attorney General Miller on
Massachusetts avenue,
Almost ut the same time two bodie,
were taken from the burning building.
One was the Secretarys daughter, Miss
Mary, young lady, and the other wa,
that OF the French maid, Josephine.
That OF the former was found by Chief
Parish lying OH the floor in the SECOND
floor hall ut the head OF the stairs, The
body was not greatly disligured by the
fire. She had evidently died from snf.
location: The Chief lifted the lifeless
body in his arms, and although the stair.
case was ablaze, he brought it safely ont
into the street. 1t is said that Miss
Tracy could have saved herself had
her strength held out a few minnics
longer. She fell in the hallway of the
second story, a few yards from the bath
room. where, if she had reached and
closed the door, would have insured her
against the fire and smoke until assist
ance could have reached her, OF the
French maid little is known, save that
her body was found in her room ON the
top floor of the house, burned beyond
recognition. Both the bodies of Miss
Tracy and her maid, were taken to nm
undertaker's establishment in the vi
cinity.
THE DEsoLATED HOUSE,
The parlors are completely ruined, but
the fire did not damage the Ginning room
to any extent To those who were nd
mitted 10 view the destruction of nro.
perty, the bed room which had been oc.
cupied by the Secretary and Mrs. Tracy
was the principal point OF interest. Il
is room on the second floor, and must
have been a beautiful apartment. With
the heads toward the west, the two brass
bedsteads stand side by side and on
these Mr.. and Mrs. Tracy slcpt last
night. The brass is tarnishcd and evrrv.
thing around is black and soaked with
water. The French clock on the man,rl
was silent, It's pendulum having ceased
to swing at $50
The two froat rooms on the second
floor were occupied by Mrs. WilrnerIinv
and her daughter, Mics Alice. These
apartments arc wrecks. On the third
floor in the centre front was the room
occupied last night by Miss Tracy. This
was a ruin OF the most thorough dcscrin.
ton, charred in every corner, the ceil;n,
isgone, the doors burned out. Cindrrsh
ankle deep. covered the floor and wha,
the flames had spared, was destroye d Inv
water.
The fire originated in the parlor ncor
the open fire place. Whether it ori,,in.
ated from tho CRATE or heating piprs ia
not known, as no one could br fnn,I
who could tell whether ihrr. ,ra,
lire IN The CRATE last night Or not. The
ffane work adjoining the mant,l wns
where the fire started, and it no doubt
burned some time before il was
discovered. The furnace is in in
the basement directly beneath whore
the fire started, and the n;nao
leading TO the upper stories mass IN r,o irho
rear OF the woodwork. The tircmon ~ oan '"o
orally think that the woodwork can,h, sv
fire from the heated pipes. Tho CoSnS
mlission1ers ol the District OF Columbia
held board session to-day and directed
Inspector Entwsle to make ihorom,,i'
investigation into the cause of The iiys
and report. - '''' n'o
| TIE DEAD At TILE WHITE HOUSE.
The remains OF Mrs. Tracy and Mic,
Tracy lie tonight in caskets in Tho Con-
tre OF the East room oi the White Honvo Z
me dead chamber is now dimly lighted
and IS sombre, gloomly and qniet with
no one within it save the dead and ono
oil the doorkeepers who will konn
watch over the remains Tp T6p
bodies were brought to ,no no
White House about six O'Clock hy o.'I's tna
oi the President who has taken cHarco
oi Whatever arrangements for the nm.
erai II was necessary to make nj nrc ,ent
40 hnal arrangements for the funeral
nave Decn made as yet, and none viii
be made, until the arrival Of % Snrro,or,, mr,i
Tracy's son, and Gen. Gatlin bis brsaiy hro,iy
, er,lh.law, who are expected Tonight
. The injured are improving ;rbo
|. PRESIDENT visited Secretary Tracy sr,iu n
y TINS evening, and found him rera;ninn
:. ms strength, though still hardly all" ,S :
), realize the great loss he has sns,ainsI % II
= TO.mnrrnw fhnN De-, $3.50 ouotHiltu.