The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-01-05
VICTIMS OF FIRE.
Human Beings Are burned To Death In
New York, London, Missouri, Wis
consin. Kentucky and
Georgia.

NEW York. Jan. g. - Three lives
were sacrificed Wednesday afternoon
in fire at 25 Pitt street The victims
were Lena Lehman, "a years OF age.
and her two children, Sarah and
Henry, aged. respectively, years and
3 months. The fact that lives were
lost In the fire was not discovered
until some time after IL was cxtin-
guished. when firemen found the three
bodies, burned to crisp. lying be-
meath n heap OF debris in turn of
stairway on the third floor
The woman lived on the fourth floor
and was trying To escape 20 the street
when she and her infants persisted in
the flames Their lives would have
been saved had the panic-st-iclen
mother remained in her apartments,
as help promptly arrived.
The building where the fatal fire
occurred Is hve-story brick tenement
There is a Chinese laundry aud a va
cant store on the ground floor while
tne rest OF the building is tenanted by
Hebrew families. IL was n few minutes
after o'clock when Mrs Schooner, the
housekeeper, discovered smoke in the
first hallway. Before she could make
an investigation the smoke was fol-
lowed by flames, and she ran into the
street and gave the alarm. The front
fire escapes were soon filled with
crowd OF tcrror-striclSen women and
children, the tenants in the
house having heard the housekeeper's
cry They started for the stairways
at first, but found the Railways filed
with smoke, through the midst of
which shone the flare OF fire. They
then crowded the fire escapes and
waited for help. Three policemen
FASTENED up the fire escapes and as
sisted the women and children 10 the
street The total damage by the fire
is about $4,000.
MILAN, Mo-, Jan. 3-A man named
Crooks, who has lived in this city for
the past two years, left with his fam
lily Tuesday for southern Missouri,
travelling with team and wagon. They
camped at night near Roger. about
miles west of this place, and while
his wife was getting supper her
clothing accidentally caught fire and
burned her almost beyond recognition.
Two OF the little girls, who caught
hold OF her while she was burning,
were also horribly burned. The hus-
band was badly burned about the face
and hands while trying to extinguish
the flames.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. august Buerle's
barn burned Wednesday morning at
o'clock at Port Washington. Buerle
went into the burning building 10 save
COW and was overcome by the smoke
and burned 20 death. His wife, who
was in the barn, was barely saved
alive. Her clothes were burned Off
The cause OF the fire is not known, but
is undoubtedly incendiary.
WuLIAMsoN's STATION, Ky, Jan. 3D.
The home OF Daniel White (colored).
near this place, was totally destroyed
by fire Tuesday at midnight. Four
children who were asleep in the build
ing were burned 10 death White and
his wife escaped with their baby in
their night clothes The building was
totally destroyed.
DOUGLAS, Ca, Jan. 3 News has just
reached here that eight negroes were
burned 90 death two days ago at Phil
lips Mill, In this county. One OF the
negroes was about grown and the 9TH
ers were children. All were in a house
which caught fire and the inmates per-
ished before they could escape.
LONDON, Jan. 3.-Firc started in n
French laundry in Edgeware road
early Wednesday morning and eight
persons asleep in the building were
burned 10 death.