Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-18
Today's Belief Regarding the Troy
Disaster.
THRILLING STORIES OF SURVIVORS,
A Way of Escape That Was
Not Used.
LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED

TROY, n. Y, February 1S-Seyeral fire
engines are sti!l pouring water upon The
ruins Of the BCrdette building fire If any
O. the victims are la the ruins il Will lac
impossible to reach their bodies for hours
perhaps days.
Some Of those who escaped uninirred had
thrilling expeTio noes.
Miss Bertha Knight, who was employe
in the office at Stettheimers, was one of the
girls who got out in safety. According 10
her story. the first she knew of the conila-
grafton was when che of the girls in the
office, which was located Oh the Top floor
OF the building, came up from the floor he
lew and cried out that there fire.
We thought at first that she Was jok-
ing said Miss Knight, "but moment
later the cry of fire came from below. and
we all rus he'd for the stairs. Some of The
girls. myself included, stopped TO gather
wraps. When we got to the stairway we
found that the flames had cut of The exit
there. Then some one shouted 10 20 10 The
elevator, and We all rushed there. We
found the door of the elevator fastened,
and could not open II. BY that time the
Ere vas upon US, having spread up 10 the
top floor. My hair singed by the
blaze, but, with the others, l rushed into
the stitching room to the door on the NORTH
Here there was another stairway. used Ny
the employees in NanZandt & Jacobs fac
tory. while the entrance was on the south
side of the building. We We're able TO get
0owh this stairway. and got te the street
IN safety, the fire no. having Ne; splead 10
the north side. l did not ste any girls
jump. but knew that a number of them
I, led 10 get out by the fire escape. There
nine girls III the Office. and probah
lsH were employed In the stitching room
adjoining. a few of the girls had gons
home. bat the majority of them We're s;iI
al the factory"
Miss Bertha Ruede, who as employed in
NanZanGJ 4 jacobs shop, was also oiis
of those who escaped by the nor-h stair
way. she had time to get her hat and
wraps. bat he flames Were rapidly rCHSiim-
ing every thing before them when The girls
in that shop made their exit. They had
Lut little time left III which 10 get oEt.
According to Deputy State Factory In
spactor Devine the avenues for escape
from the building were plenty. The flames
hi oke out en- the fifth floor. This is divided
by partition in two parts, with door ia
the center known as fire door. aud 10 te
opened only in such emergency. The
south part, where the fire started WAS
occupied by Stettheiner a Company. and
the north part hy NanzandI, Jacobs IL
Company. From each of these Iwo DEPART
nlents there stairway leading direct
TO RiNer street. If this door In The parti-
Lon separating the two departments had
been opened, which as a question yet un-
solved, then the employees of Stetthener &
Company could have escaped through the
department of Vanzandt, Jacobs & Com
pany and down the north stairway None
OF the employees of Nanzsndt, jacobs AZ
Company were injured, far as can be
learned. The presumption is strong that
the door between the two depart nents Was
never opened. The fire burned briskiy
in the portion in which IL broke out that
exit by the stairway IN that part was at
once cut off. and there was but The elevator
or the windows.
Insurance men estimate the loss the
Burdette building at xIo.H1, two-ihirds
covered by insurance. ON the Mccarthy
luilding the damage, mostly by water, VIII
not exceed $1,000. A
Dead and Injured.
Following is the list of dead: Mrs. CATH
crime Kane, 1876 4th street; Mrs. Margaret
Carroll, Monroe street; Mrs Johanna Doyle,
9Th avenue.
The injured, in addition to thOe whose
rames have previously been given are Miss
jena Jarvis. arms and hands burned: Miss
Mamie Redden, head burned; George Nixcn
head cutter head and hands burned.
The missing are Mrs. Martin and Mss
Mil!ie Bradt. They We're ct work in the
upper floor in the Office. Tie Whereabouts
of Others mentioned missing last night
have been accounted for 1t is not now be-
iieved that there are any bodies ia the
ruins.