The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-21
THREE ST.F.ED 70 DEATH.
A COlOTed Woman and Two
Children SmOthCTed.
4 TENEMENT FIRES FATAL WORK.

Adelaide Graham and Her Little Boy
and Girl Penned in Room on Pres
ident Street and Burned to Death.
Two of the Bodies Naked and
Soorcbsd vVben P,lIad Ont nv the
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ures. Nos. u and U8. on the
north side of President street
and 3d and 4th from Randolph.
Alto O'Clock the residents in thcneieh-
borhood were aroused by screams and
shouts Of fire" and police by women's
voices. A crowd rapidly gathered.
Smoke was issuing in volumes from the
doors and windows of the two tencmeuts
and through the smoke the cries Of
woman and children could be heard call
ing for help. A woman who oc-
cupied room in one Of the houses, but
VINO had escaped was shouting that her
sister was burning up. Efforts were
made to turn IN am alarm, but the people
seemed TO nave lost all reason In their
fright and their efforts were misdirected.
A shop-keeper across the street from the
houses had key to alarm box No. ~,
near by, but 1t was sometime before any
one luouehO OIL MN ana Ineh ne could not
Oo aIouSou until an alarm hau Already
OeeH sehU H. Inc poHcemah IN that
"aFu was aV lno o'ner ehu Oh MS peat
having P"SSeu lH"v Hcli5 HOOrnoou an
noun before flnaIS negro man
goU Key from somewhere
ana sent III the alarm
a teIel'hone ilessaHe might nave oeen
sent 10 minutes before from the Iypee
uepoC' ouV no one I.'"lht OF the tele-
phone
THE FIRE GOT HEADWAY.
The hremen responded Immediately,
but owing to the fact that there are no
paved streets leading direct to the neigh
borhood, the engines were compelled to
take roundabout route by Liberty and
Randolph streets, delaying their arrival
several minutes longer than would have
otherwise been required. They could
not have arrived in time to save the poor
wretches who were being smothered to
death however
Chief Puder and his drives, w 7
Coltor were the fire, 70 o,,;,.o ~ tho
chiefs b,ggv Trbov ,ushed into +ho
building and in spite of the smoke found
the stairway in the rear 1t was already
half burned away. Fireman Golfer
thought he could hear the screams of
the people whom they had been told
were on the second floor, and made an at
tempt to mount the stairs, which fell
through with him. He called up to the
people to run to the window and jump.
Chief Puder thinks, however. that the
poor creatures had already sue
cumbed. Foreman Murphy. of the
chemical company was next to enter the
house. but he found it impossible to reach
the second floor.
The flames went bursting tbroupb the
roof when the engines arrived and the
whole building appeared likely tn 90 in a
short time. The tiremon did nuicl, work
after their arrival and had the fire, nndo,.
control in very few minutes ladders
were run ND 10 the windows hint il ,-ae
TOO late To do any cood
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a S,ii"li i"uOer was taken lhsio0 the
se0o'iu llou99 anu r''l up over Ihe burned