Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-31
PERSISTED In FLAMES
Three Women and Two Children
Killed In a Burning Building.
FUTILE EFFORTS TO SAVE THEN.
The Dead Bodies Found Among the
Smoking Ruins-Cause OF the
Disaster Unknown.

NEW YORK, March 2l.--Develop-
ments prove that tive instead OF three
persons were suffocated by smoke In
tho five story apartment house, 81
west 105lh stfee,, which WIS partially
destroyed by fire yealetdsy afternoon.
AZ an early hour this morning the
bodies Of Mrs. Adaliene Darli neton
and Ter 6ve-yeRr.Old son Marcelle
were discovered between the stair
wayn on the fourth floor of the build
ing. Last night 1t was reported that
everybody who had been in the
building OF the time OF the fire was
accounted for, but iaisr II developed
that Mrs. Darlington aud her boy
must have been in the house. 1t
seems tnut they won't out an hour
before the fire broke out, telling the
jsnit0r that they would not return
until evening. Inc janitor therefore
supposed that the Darlingtons were
SAFE and 30 reported to the police.
Nothing heard from Mrs. Darlington,
however, up TO late hour last night,
the neighbors anu the police became
hlhkltu abu ~ obNo
instituted search which resulted In
the fading OF the bodies this mern-
ing.
The list of dead stands ns follow:
Darlington, Mrs. Aueliene, recently
at Greenwich, Conn.
Darlington, Marcelle, 5 years old.
French, Mrs. Elizabeth, 80 years OF
age, OF Pueblo, Mex.
French, Fiuele, daughter OF Mrs.
Ell zabeth, three months OLD.
Murrissey. Miss Ellen, IS years of
age OF Albany, n. Y. MIS-. French,
whose husband, Alberto French, q
bookkeeper In the office Of railroad
in Pueblo, Mexico, Id q brother OF Mrs.
Darlington, hsd been visiting the
Darlingtops In Greenwich. She In.
tended TO Join her HUSBAND rs soon as
their baby could bear the journey.
None of those who were In the
building when the fire started cUuld
explaia how 1t was caused. There Is
passage way through the basement
to the rear OF the house where two
uumbweiter shafts Communicate with
the apartments. Ater tHese was the
air shaft W which sucked the fire up to
the root like the smoke stack OF iur-
mace. The doors ut the front and back
of the house leading into the paesage
way were open and any one might
have entered without being seen. As
IL usual in apartment houses, boys nud
men were continually passing TO and
from the dumbwaiters to deliver artl.
cles from shops.
The janitress OF the building, Mrs.
Annie Harrington, said that there had
been no fire 10 the furnace since Sun.
b.. In.. A.,r
in the basement except gas jet which
was toward the front some dia.ance
from the airshait.
81 came out to go ,cross the hall
about half past one O'Clock to get como
more Clothes" said Mrs. Harrington,
sand sa~ q great sheet OF fl me at the
foot OF the aiIshafi. The BOY was out
side in the street shaking a carpet, and
l was the only one In the basement. l
ran upstairs as fast as 1 could to tell
the Iolks that the building was on fire,
but could not get beyond the i0urts
floor on account OF the smoke. came
back anu went out the front door"
Ernest Dixon, VINO was janitor OF
another department hUuae few doors
AWAY ran and turned In the alarm.
When he returned he found IL i'm.
possible to get into the house. He
hastsaed to the root OF the next house
on the east and iumpeu down to the
roof OF the burning building. He
could hear this screams OF the women
below him. There was not q man In
the house when tho fire started. The
flames roared up through the air shat
TO the roof. Warmed by their crack
ling ana by the smoke, the tenants
rushed to the stairways to find escape
that way already out of. Only those
on the FIRST floor had time to get out o:
the front door and they were able 10
save nothipg. The fire must have
maue remarkably rapid healwsy.
Chief Joseph Shea who has tele.
phoned down from l25th street and
was the fret to ges there ut once