San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-31
A FIRE FATALITY.
I'm WHICH FIVE LIVES
WERE LOST.
New York Tenement House
Completely Quilted
Firemen Worked Heroicly
But Could Not Reach
The Inmates.
MADE VAIN ATTEMPTS TO RES
CUE THE UNFORTUNATES
BUT ALL FAILED.
Flames Originated In The Cellar And
Had Spread Throughout The Build
ing Before The Tenants We're
Aware Of Their Danger
Blaze In An Asylum,

New York, March 31.-Developments
prove that FIVE instead of three per-
sons were ~suffOcated by smoke in the
five-story apartment house, No. 81
West One Hundred and Fifth street,
which was partially destroyed by fire
Yesterday afternoon. At an early
hour this morning the bodies of Mrs.
Angelina Darlington and her five-year-
old son, Marcelle, were discovered
between the stairway and the fourth
ioor of the building. Last night it
was reported that everybody who
had been in the building at the time of
the fire was accounted for, but later
it developed that Mrs. Darlington and
her boy must have been dead. 1t
seems that they went out an hour be
fore the fire broke out, telling the
janitor that they would not return
until evening. The janitOr therefore
supposed that the Darlingtons were
safe and reported it to the police.
Nothing having been heard Of Mrs.
Darlington, however, up to a late
hour last night the police then
instituted a search which resulted in
the finding of the bodies and this
morning, the list of the dead bodies
now stands as follows:
DARLINGTON, Mrs. Angelina, re-
cantIv IF GrapD witch Conn
DARLINGTON, Marcelle, five years
old. adopted son of Mrs. Darlington.
FRENCH, Mrs. Elizabeth, % years
old, of Pueblo, Mex.
FRENCH, Fidele, daughter of Mrs.
Elizabeth French, three months.
MORRISEY, Mrs. Ellen, 40 years
old, Of Albany, N. Y.
The janitor of the building said:
There had been no fire in the furnace
since Sunday and there was nothing
burning in the basement except a gas
jet, which was toward the front, some
distance from the air shaft. But l
came out to go across the hall about
half past n o'clock to get some more
clothes and saw a great sheet of
flames at the foot of the air shaft.
The boy was outside in the street
shaking a carpet and l was the only
one in the basement. / ran upstairs
as fast as l could to tell the folks
that the building was on fire, but l
could not get beyond the fourth floor
on account of the smoke. l came back
and went out of the front door"
Earnest DiXson, who is janitor of
another apartment house a few doors
away, ran and turned in the alarm.
When he returned he found it impOs-
sible to get into the house. He hast
ened to the roof of the next building
on the west and jumped down to the
roof of the burning house, where he
could hear the screams of the women
below.
There was not a man in the house
when the fire started. The flames
roared up through the air shaft to the
roof. Warned by their cracking
the tenants rushed to the stairway to
find escape cut off that way. Only
those on the first floor had time to get
out of the front door and they were
able to save nothing.
The fire must have made remarka-
BILE Roadway. Chief Joshea fastened
down from One Hundred and Fifth
street and was the first to get there, |
at once turning in two more alarms
summoning all the engines in the dis
trfct. At that time the flames were
roaring through the Bpper floor of the
building and women were hanging