Telegram-herald., 1890-12-27
HUMANS ROASTED.
A Msther and Ihres CAllarss
Bar2sa 50 Death al Rochester.
Fstai Flames sf Other Poiats Ire
Destroys TIE hasonie Temple al
6&itinofe Less. $3.50. GOO.

oglock. = IA, whers - omzR saa
ahrce children lost their lives. Ihe We
tiEas were Irs. john Dietrich. of Nc 2
0rchsrd street, and her three ehileren.
Libbie. AGED q yesFz. Jacob. sgod 8.
ana Louisa. aged II months. How the
nFe originated Is = mystery. AIRS.
Dietrich lad arisen al 4 o'clock 20 start
= IRE in the kitchen stove aud awak-
eued her has band soon after with an
alarm II nre. she rushed In - Save
her three little once ana per
ished ~ the flames Her asb@nd and
one son escaped. When the hremen sue
eeeded Ia quenehing the flames they
found In the bedroom where the
woman had slept the body Of
the unfortunate woman lying
across the bed with the feet
on the door. Beside her lay the three
little children, their bodies burned 10 q
crisp as well as that OF their mother
SARATOGA, y Y, Dec 26.-Mrs- Ellen
Gibbons, aged 50 years, was burned 10
death az her home on Ash street at an
early hour. Mrs Gibbons was addicted
10 smoking
HOLDEN. No, Dee. 26.-The house Of
Samuel Malone on West Fifth street
burned TO the ground Thursday morn
ing. As the hremen arrived On the
scene one side of the house fell out, and
10y the light OF the fire they saw Mr..
Malone and John Hicks, his brothcr-in-
law, crawling toward a door in their
bedroom attempting TO escape. Then the
roof fell in and the unfortunate men
were hidden from sight. Their eharred
bodies were found IN the ruins. Malone
was an old soldier drawing pession.
and always kept more or less money in
his house. 1t is believed he and Hicks
were drugged, the house robbed and
then set on fire. The police are inves-
tigating.
MAsoNs BURNED OUT.
BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 26.-The i'm
posing Masonic Temple which occu-
pied prominent site on Charles avenue
was on Thursday almost completely de-
stroyed by fire, together with a large
amount of valuable property belonging
to the order and TO the Masons individu-
ally. The fire broke out in Forepaush's
Theater, which is in the interior of the
building but soon spread TO the various
lodgc-rooms and Templar halls above.
The fire being so far up and so far
within the interior of the building, the
apparatus of the department was not
equal TO the unusual emergency and the
FIRE practically burned itself out. From
noon until late in the evening it ragged
and the interior was thoroughly ruined
before the flames were extinguished.
The company occupying the boards
during the week at Forepaugh's was
the Minnie Oscar Gray and w. T.
Stephens combination in "Vesper
Bells" Shortly after noon, while the
stage hands were arranging the theater
for the matinee performance, Harry
Likes, the stage carpenter, noticed that
one of the pieces of scenery about
the flies had caught fire from gas jet.
The hands hurried to put the fire out,
but before they could reach it the whole
curtain was ablaze. Then the FIRE ex-
tended not only to the auditorium, but
to the lodge rooms above, and here 1t
created the greatest havoc.
Word was quickly passed among the
Masons, and they gathered from ali sec
tions of the city 10 save what they could
of the property of their respective
lodges. They worked like heroes. A
number of them took the risk
of dashing mp the shaft TO the
lodge-rooms above, and, making their
way 10 the closets, which they
knew better than the iremen, seized
their costly paraphernalia and valua.
BILE archives and threw them out Of the
windows Below was crowd of their
brethren holding nets in which the
articles were caught and carried TO a
place of safety. In this way great
(, deal Of valuable property was saved.
The Knights Templar suffered the
most. Their rooms were almost entire
/ " inaccessible to the rescuers. The
uniforms and accoutrements of all the
Knights Templar in the city. valued
! in all at $4,000 were lost The
Grand Lodge also suffered greatly. It's
fine library and valuable archives.
which were burned, as we'll as the paint
/ ings of all the old Grand Masters, are re-
gsrded by Masons as an irreparable loss.
The Masonic Temple cost TO build
5000, 600, though it was never regarded
as worth half that sum The loss is
estimated at about $3.50, 600. upon which
| there was insurance Of about SOC, 00O
oIHER FIRES.
/ CINCINNATI, Dec. 2S.-The establish.
ment Of the American Faucet & Buna
/ Manufacturing Company at 214 Wade
/ street was discovered on Ere at 2.sg
/ o'clock Thursday morning. The frs
/ was copfined 20 the basement and frs'
/ three stories. The large amount oi
I stock on these floors was not burned.
but ruined by water. and the machinery
was ruined. The loss viii exceed 500
/ 900. covered ky insurance. II Is thought
I that The FIRE was Of incendiary origin.
Early Thursday morning Ere was dis
+ covered in the Nsrwig Manufacturing
+ Company. The loss is estimated a. $40
i coo and insurance about So. 0o0 The
entire plant was destroyed. but n,
I building is thought 20 ~ intact
VIRooUA. Wis. Dec 2s-A FIRE broke
+ out iD ore ~ The upper rooms of ". ?
T Lindemann's brick block ~ ni5nigh'
I Wednesday and the entire bloc a
+ buildings. excepting the fremont
Z House. was swept away. involving 4
T loss of fully $50. ooo. with SIS. 90 insur
snce-
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