New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-11
FATAL BLAZE IN BROOKLYN.
A WOMAN A VICTIM OF FLAMES.
THE FIRE SUPPOSED TO BE OF 1NcEND1ARY
ORIGIN.

ORIGIN.
supposed incendary fire in tenement-house
Of No l6O Columbia-st. Brooklyn, yesterday after
noon caused the fatal burning of one woman, the
complete destruction Of one house, and consider
able damage TO two others. William Boyd, his
wife Mary and their five children lived on the
first floor Of The three-SOry brick building NO.
100 Columbia-st, over q grocery kept by Joseph
Rarbara. Mrs Boyd forty-eight years old, had
for three months been sick from consumption
and was unable TO leave her bed. She did not
expect 10 live long, and had arranged to have
The Rev. John j. Barry, of ST. Peters Church. give
ber absolution yesterday morning For some rea-
son the priest was unable to visit her
in the morning, and her husband was with her
expectinc that he would come in at any time.
At 3:5O D. m the husband looked out OF the
front window TO see if the priest coming,
and as he turned away saw smoke in the hallway
opposte He went ont and found that the smoke
was coming from below. He rushed down 10 the
grocery and found the door locked and no one
inside, though fifteen minutes before he had heard
several men talking in the store. Ihen after
giving the alarm, he turned back TO rescue his
wife and children. BY this time the staircase
was in flames and he had to fight fire TO get 10
bis rooms He got the children out all right, but
Mrs Boyd was too Ill to move and before ne could
return TO the front bedroom where she lay nc was
driven back by the flames.
Meanwhile the engines and hook and LADDER
were on the ground. Assistant Foreman John
Leo, Of Engine No. a, put up a ladder 10
the front window and got the woman
out She was burned about the
face and body Ambulance-Surgeon Moore
wrapped her in a blanket and took her TO st
Peters Hospital, where it was said she could not
possibly recover.
The flames spread through the house. burning
it out completely, and also to the second
and third floors of No, l62 Columbia-st NO
l5s was also badly damaged by water
On the third floor of NO. 100, over the Boyds.
lived Mrs. Margaret Crimmins, a widow with
three children. They all escaped on 10 the roof
Of the adjoining house. She lost about S4VV
Boyd lost about $500:
Herman Rockman Kept tailor shop on the
ground floor of No. ! 62. His loss was S0O. ne
tenants on the second floor were Peter foleN'
his vile and one child. and Michael AlcPaden' ms
wife and two children They each lost 5000 On the
third floor lived Benjamin Dayton ana Jeremiah
Teehan Each lost $500. =,
John Kaufman's cigar store, IN NO. ! oo' was was
damaged TO the amount Of $500. over nm liVvd M
Mrs Hurley. Joseph ORoarie. Mrs McLaughAn
and John sweeney. They each lost ABOUT SIVU
by water. The buildings form part OF row OF
five brick houses belonging 10 the estate OF Denr4s
Murnane. The damage To the Dulldlhgs "aS
$4,000 and 10 the grocery $1,000 rev, II
any Of the tenants had insurance with the cNcep
ZION of Barbara the grocer, who had been there
onlv ahout four months He nowhere TO be
Tonnd when the fire broke out and has not been
seen since.