Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-03-17
ELEVEN BURN TO DEATH.
Terrible EsexuIt of q Eire in - Lode
ani; House on the Bowery,
New York.

New ork, March 14.-Eleven men lost
their lives in the fire which swept
through the Bowery Mission house at
10 'o"ery early Sunday morning and
lett 1t a blackened shell. Their bodies,
now at the morgue, are so charred that
most OF them may never be recognized.
Inc dead are supposed to be: Elias Cud-
oah' ~ years old, address not known;
John Foran, Stapleton, Staten Island;
McDermott, rs years old, address
unknown; James O'Rourke, AZ years old,
fhlladelphia; William Sedan, 80 years
DID, Spottswood, n. j.; six bodies uni
Identified.
Ihe injured, all of whom will recover,
are: robert Ashman, 4s years old, bad
ly burned about the feet, at Gouveneur
hospital; Lieut.. Graham, fireman,
burned about the hands; George Will
son, "a years old, burned about the face
and hands, at Gouverneur hospital.
No. 105 Bowery was one of the best
known lodging houses on that thor
oughfare. 1t was called the Bowery
Mission Lodging house and was con-
Quoted by the Christian Herald. In
the basement of the building there was
a cheap restaurant, while the ground
floor was used exclusively for mission
purposes, Gospel services having been
held there daily for several years. The
four upper floors were fitted up as
cheap lodging house with accommodate
tions for $50 males, who. paid Is, 20 or
25 cents each according to the location
OF the rooms.
Saturday night almost every bed was
occupied. At half-past one o'clock
Sunday morning one, of the dodgers dis
covered flames coming from wash
room on the third floor, but before he
had time to alarm the house the fire was
noticed by passers-by on the street.
BY this time the flames had eaten their
way to the top of the building and were
bursting through the roof. When the
alarm was given: and the inmates
aroused wild scene Of excitement en-
suede Many Of the dodgers became
panic-stricken.' They rushed into the
Railways and. fell over each other: in
tlieir efforts .to'reach the street. Those
on. the, lower. floors got to. the. street
safely by the stairWays, while those on
the upper floors CROPPED their way
through the binding smoke to the
metal fire escape in front of the build
ing. The majority of them only saved
portionsaof their :clo thing while sew
eral of them were naked Those who
made their-way to the, Street by thefi
escapes were specifically burned by
the excessive heat of the, iron ladders,
which in MANY places had become red
hot from the flames within. .&fm 81
In the meantime three alarms of fire
had been sentsin and in a few minutes
the firemen were busy deluging the
building with torrents of,water. They.
finally succeeded in Keeping the fire
within the limits of the three upper
stories of the STRUCTURE, 81 sGs 'sEE q
After the fire had been extinguished
sufficiently so that search of the place
was possible, the police and firemen en-
tered the, building and the work of
searching for the victims was begun.
Several bodies were found near the win
dows on the two upper floors, where
they had been stricken down by at
tempting to make eirwayto the fire
escapes. So many bodies were found
in the early stages of the search that it
was estimated that over 40 persons must
have been killed. However, the officers
fortunately overestimated the loss of
life and II bodies in all were found.
Some OF these were discovered in the
small rooms they had occupied, while
others were found in the Railways and
on the stairs of the fourth and fifth
floors, All of them were naked and
most of them were burned and charred
beyond recognition.
AS soon as the bodies were carried to
the street, they were transferred to the
police station and by. half past four
O'Clock a. m, the police relinquished
their search. Coroner yucca, after look-
ing at the bodies at the station, gave a
permit for their removal to the hos
pital. Manager Sardonsen, of the Chris
ton Herald, who has direct charge of
the mission and ,the lodging house,
called at the Eldredgea and lat the sta
ton later and told the officer in charge
that he would bury the dead. The loss
on the building BY fire is estimated at
81, 900 and the contents'are: damaged to
the extent of $4,000. Loss entirely COW
cred by insurance, The building, which.
belongs to the Chester estate, is leased
by the .Bowery mission.
TO BE TAKEN TO Alaska
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