The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-03-30
.FATIL TEyEIEyT FIRE ]
It Results iuEour Deaths and Seri-
GUS Injuries to Two Others,
THE vIorImg ESCAPE CUT OFF

One jumped from q window and Ecceivcd
Injuries Resulting in Her Death While
Being Tason TO mospitnI--A Fircmau's
Serious Tau.
NEW YORK March 3)-Four people
were killed and two injured i'm fire
which started eusy yesterday morning la
the three story business and tenement
building att 37l Hudson street. The dead
are: Thomas Malloy, % years old, % fire.
man ON the steamship st. Louis suno-
caJed Archibald Grogan, 3j years old.
waitor suiiocated; Mary McNahon, sim
gle, % years Old sun'ocated; Margaret
Ryan, GO yoars old, single, died ON the way
to the hospital from injuries received by
jumping from window Tho injured
are: Kate Higgins leg fractured by fall
ing; Edward Walsh, ~ years old. fireman,
internally hurt by falling from a ladder
The burned building is one of o row of
three story structures owned by the Trinity
church corporation The ground floor is
occupied by John H. Eggcrs a dealer i'm
confectioners' supplies, and the upper
floors were occupied by several families as
dwellings The second floor, Immediately
over the confectioners' quarters was oc-
cupied for the most part by the family of
Thomas McManus, consisting of Mr.. and
Mrs McManus, two sons and two daugh-
ters. Twelve other rooms on that floor
are used by the family of Mr.. McManus,
while three rooms in the rear portion of
the floor were occupied by a Mr.. and Mrs.
McMahon and the young man Malloy,
who was boarding with them. On the
third floor were a number of families.
1t was in the apartments of the Nc
Manus family that the fire originated, so
far as the police and the tiremen are able
to determine. Nicholas McManus, one of
( the sons, who slept in one of the back
/ rooms of the SUITE was awakened by the
/ smell of smoke. He turned in an alarm
| and awakened the tenants 1t was ap-
! parent that the lives of many were in dam
ger, for the smoke had permeated every
| part of the house and the flames were
burning brisllly. All of the McManus
family were able to make their way down
the stairs to the street before exit in that
direction was cut off by the flames Mich
olas McManus succeeded in helping sew
eral of the people out by leading them
down the stairs through the binding
smoke in the hallway
1t was among the tenants on the top
floor that the chief danger lay Some of
them ran to the roof and escaped in that
direction, but others sought to get down
by the stairway. Miss Margaret Ryan and
Miss Kate Higgins on being awakened
ran to the front windows on the third
floor, where they lived. The flremen had
already arrived, and ladders had been
placed on the front side of the house to
help take out the tenants whose lives were
in danger.
On one of these ladders was Fireman
Walsh. As he was ascending burst OF
flame and smoke shot out of one of the
windows, and he was sent reeling to the
street. AS Walsh fell Miss Ryan leaped
from the window to the sidewalk, and
Miss Higgins, apparently partly overcome
by the smoke in the rooms above, fell tC
the ground at almost the same time. Ar
ambulance was sent for, but Miss RyaT
was unconscious when placed in the con
veyance, and died before the hospital wa:
reached. Walsh was taken to the hospita
at the same time. He will probably re
cover.
After the flames had been extinguisheC
a search of the building was made, anC
the bodies of Thomas Malloy, Archibald
Grogan and Mary Mcmahon were found.