St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-30
SLEPT THE SLEEP OF DEATH
WITH A WINDING SHEET OF
FLAME.
TENEMENT HOUSE HOLOCAUST
VICTIMS sUFFOCATED IN ONE OF
NEW YORK's MANY FIRE
TRAPS.
FRIGHTEUL FALL OF A FIREMAN
Causes a Girl I'm Despair to Lean
for Life-Both Seriously In
jurcd.

NEW YORK, March 29.-Tour peo-
PIE were killed and two injured in a fire
which started early this morning in the
three-story business and tenement
building, 374 Hudson street. The dead
are:
THOMAS MALLOY, twenty-three wears old
fireman on the steamship st. Louis suf-
focated.
ARCHIBALD GRoGAN, thirty-hve years
old, a waiter, suffocated
MARY MMAHON, single, twenty-five years
old, suffocated.
MARGARET RYAN, sixty years old. single.
died on the way to the hospital from injuries
received by jumping from window.
The injured are: Kate Higgins thirty-fiye
years old, leg fractured Edward Walsh, twen-
ty-nine years old, fireman, internally hurt
by falling from ladder.
The burned building is one Of a row
Of three-story structures owned by the
Trinity church corporation The ground
is occupied by John II. Eggers, a dealer
in confectioners' supplies, and the up
per two floors were occupied by sew
eral families as dwellings. The second
floor, Immediately over the confection-
! er's quarters, was occupied for the
| most part by the family Of Thomas
McManus. The McAfanus family con-
sists Of Mr.. and Mrs. McManus, two
sons and two daughters. Twelve of
the 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 Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Mahon, and the young man Malloy,
the steamship fireman, who was board
ing 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,
80 far as the police and the f1remen 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. All Of the McManuses were
able to; make their way down stairs
to the street before the. exit in that
direction was out sofy by the flames
Nicholas McManus succeeded in help
ing several Of the people cut by leading
them down the stairs through the
binding smoke in the hallway. It was
among the tenants on the top floor that
the chief danger lay. Some of them
ran to the roof and escaped in that di-
rection, 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 fremen 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,
a burst Of flame 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 side
walk, and Miss Higgins, apparently
partly overcome by the smoke in the
rooms above, fell to the ground at al
most the same tiIlfe. An ambulance
was sent for, but Miss Ryan was un-
conscious when placed in the convey
ance, and died before the hospital was
reached. Walsh ives taken to the hos
pital at the same time. He is badly,
but probably not dangerously hurt.
After the flames had been extin-
guished, a search Of the building was
made, and the bodies Of Thomas NAL
10y, Archibald Grogan and Mary Nc
Mahon were found. All Of the persons
found dead had been suffocated before
they were able to escape. How the fire
originated cannot be determined until
thorough investigation is made. The
property loss will not exceed $4,000.