The record-union., 1897-05-24
Tenants Cut Off From Escape by the
Flames.
One Woman, i'm a Panic, Throws ner=
self From a Third-StOry WINDOW,
Striking a Man Who Was Trying
to Save Himself and Nearly Huri-
iuo Him to DeStruCtiOn-lhr hree
Deaths the Result of the Ca
tastrophe.
tastrophe.

NEW YORK, May 23-TWo persons
Were killed and three seriously injured
in a fire which started shortly after
O'Clock this morning in the four-story
and basement brown stone building at
149 West Twenty third street. Sew
eral persons narrowly escaped death.
The dead are:
Mrs. Catherine Mossway, 33 years; !;
died at hospital. from suffocation and
burns.
Beatrice Mossway, years Old
daughter of former: suffocated in her
room.
The injured are: Mrs. Mary C. or
Carrie Bowles. boarding house keeper
at % Hollis street, Boston, dangerous
ly hurt.
Miss Macdonald. slightly burned on
the face.
F. S. Phaps, slightly burned on the
face.
The building was occupied for both
business and dwelling purposes. In
the basement is an all-night eating
house. The WeSer Piano Company oc-
cupy the first floor and the upper part
of the building is a furniture estap-
lishment conducted by Mrs. Carey. Be
lore the llIeIlcil INdNiA1A NAA~
building was filled with flames. The
Railways from the first floor to the root
were in flames and escape by the front
was cut off. Panic seized the inmates
of the house. While tenant named
Lamont was crawling on the narrow
sill to reach the adjoining house the
body of a woman struck large sign
which hung on the outside of the build
aI,, -1lrA
The sign was torn from it's fasteninss
and fell with a crash to the street Inc
woman was Mrs Bowles, who had pre-
cipitated herself from the third moor
to the street below when she found the
egress from the house by way of the
stairs was checked by the flames. She
was picked up and taken to hospital.
Lamont did not fall to the street.
On the top floor. the widest sort of
panic seized the tenants, among whom
were Mrs. Mossway and her daughter
Most of the tenants, including Miss
Macdonald and Mr.. Pleas had escaped
to the roof.
Mrs. Mossway, who lost her life, was
sleeping with her little daughter when
she was aroused by the smoke. She
ran into the hall and gave the alarm
ana tneQ went DdCk dltcI uGI dtuSiltcl
When she started to return the smoke
and flames drove her again to her room.
She attempted to open the window, but
it did not yield readily and she broke
the glass with her hands. The win
dow would not open and even if it had
there would have been little chance for
her as it is protected on the outside by
iron bars When the firemen searched
the house, they found the little girl
Head in bed her mother lying on the
1oor bhstered by heat and almost dead
rom suffocation. She was removed to
q hospital, where she died three hours
later.
Late in the afternoon Mrs. Bowles re-
covered consciousness at the hospital
but no hopes are entertained of her ul-
innate recovery. She arrived in the
city three days ago from Boston on a
shopping tour She is about 30 years
old
The origin of the fire is not known.
but it is believed that belated tenant
lit match in the hallway to see his
way and carelessly tossed the still
burning match away. The fire start
ed at the foot of the stairs and the
light wall acted as a fiue to carry the
flames to the roof instantly. The
damage was about s.. coo.