New-York tribune., 1896-01-15
TURNED OUT HOME EBY FIRE
FLAMES IN THE PEABODY APARTMENT
HOUSE.

THE THREE UPPER FLOORS OF TIE BUILDING
WRECKED AND THE TENANTS LOSE HEAVILY
SOME EXCITING SCENES
Flames wrecked the three upper floors Of The
Peabody apartment house. at Nos 10i AMI 1C6
Waverley Place. about o'clock last evening.
Their occupants. the majority of whom were
dressing for dinner at the time had to scramble
over the roof into the neghboring apartment
house, the Washington. for safety. Several of
the residents for some time after the fire were
reported missing. and although all were eventu-
ally believed accounted for. the widest confu-
sion and excitement prevailed in the ne,ghbor-
hood for mole than two hours.
The tire was discovered in the apartment of
Major John Il. Hayes. on the NTH floor. a. 5A5
p. m. Mrs Hayes and her servant VINO were the
only occupants Of the fiat, fled down the stone
staircase shreking Fire they Their
cries were heard by Christopher Flynn, The ele
vator man, who was in the hallway - the
time and by a number Of other occupants of
the house. who Immediately out of their
rooms to the staircase to find out whore the
fire was The eldest son Of the Rev Or Ter
hume. who lives on the floor above the Hayes
apartments. without waiting to make any in
quiries. dashed down the staircase through the
smoke which was pouring out through the open
door Of the Hayes fiat. and sent in fire alarm
from Washington Square. while Flynn started
the elevator and began bringing down the other
tenants. He up to the top floor, gathering
passengers every floor and when at the top
opened the door leading to the roof and showed
the way over a low wall into the top Of the
Washington apartment house next door.
A THIRD ALARM
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course Of the water pipes up through the walls
and had spread through each Of the apartments
above The firemen arrived to find them burst
ing out OF the upper windows and through the
roof They turned in a second alarm Chief Bon
ner who arrived with the reinforcing engines
ordered a third alarm to be sent in fifteen min
utes later, and within half an hour dozen en-
gines were playing on the flames
The Peabody is a seven-story double building
filed with stone staircases and ireproof ele-
vator shaft. There only two apartments On
each floor but each apartment extends for nearly
one hundred feet back from Waverley Place
Each is separated from the opposite one on the
same floor by wide passage.
From Mrs Hayes's rooms. which are on the
west side of the house. the fire extended upward
the thick brick walls Of the main passage protect
ing the eastern apartments.
Ihe NAT above wac occupIru -! NdI'el a.
Clark. LAWYER OF No. "a pine-st' MS Wiz
daughter and two servants. Mrs. Clark and the
servants were the only occupants when Mrs
Hayes's CRY If Fire heard She called To
the servants to hurry out. directing them t.
leave everything behind md save themselves.
They all made their way safely over the roof
and into the Washington House
In the west side Of the next foor-the top
is the fiat Of Sidney AshmOre director Of an
insurance company. Mr.. and Mrs Ashmore
and their servant were at home Mr.. Ash
mores two daughters were absent, and Mr. and
Mrs Ashmore were entertaining Mrs. Thomas
Hitchcock. Of No. East Twenty ninth-s,"
whose carriage, meantime. waited below for
her Both Mf and Mrs. Ashmore were unable
to move quickly. and they and Mrs. Hitchcock
were Obliged to wait for help Their servant
ran out into the hall and screamed. Then she
tainted and lay on the floor until dragged out
by the fremen. David Kelly, fireman OF the
apartment house and Daniel Kelly. tanitor OF
the Washington apartment house. on coming
up with the elevator. saw the helpless conii-
ton of the family. They dragged the servant
girl up to the roof and then carried Mrs ASH
more into the apartments Of Mrs. Vail. In the
Washington. Mr.. AshmOre was carried down
stairs by some flremen and left in the apart
ment Of Mrs. II. Il. Robertson, on the east side
Of the fourth floor, away from the fire.
Mrs Hitchcock. in the mean time who had been
trying to find her way out OF the rooms. took
wrong turning and lost her way in the smoke.
Halt exhausted she found herself on the fire.
escape. and was helped 10 the ground by the
iremen She Immediately entered her carriage
and driven home
The occupants Of the eastern flats on the upper
floors were Mr.. and Mrs. Wiley their daughter.
Mrs. Waterbury; Mrs. Shaw. relative fnd
hume the wife Of the well-known clergyman. "ho
is in Chicago: her son. and her servant on the
sixth floor and Mrs. Henry l.. Morris Miss k"r-
rick and their servant on the fifth floor. Their
apartments being protected from the flames, the
occupants early made their way t. the roof and
into the neighborng houses. Below the fifth nocr
the fire did not reach, and the tenants who
missed the elevator ran downstairs
HARD TO FIGHT
The fire proved difficult one for the fremen
10 handle. and II was nearly o'clock before II
was thoroughly under control In the mean time
the homeless occupants Of the burned apartments
found shelter in the Park Hotel and in the neigh
boring houses.
The apartment house was rendered utterly un-
inhabitable by the tons OF water poured on the
flames and the tenants spent the night In hotels
near by The actual damage done by the fire was
estimated at between $4,000 and $oOOOo tach
of the three apartments wrecked by the fire was
injured TO the extent Of about $4,000. and $2OOO)
worth Of damage was done TO the building Some
additional damage was done by water.
A TAR FACTORY ABLAZE.
FLAMES IN EAST NINETEENTH-sT. GIVE THE