Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-19
SEVEN DIE BY FIRE
Two Disastrous Blazes in New York
Tenement Houses.
SIX OTHERS SERIOUSLY BURNED
Heroic Work of the Firemen
Saved Several More.
LIST OF THE VICTIMS

NEW YORK, December 19.-Seven lives
were destroyed by fire in this city early to-
day. Five charred bodies were found on
the upper floors of burned tenement at
102d street and Sd avenue, known as the
Mentor and five women and a little girl,
all badly burned, were carried from the
blazing house to nearby hospitals. There
is thought to be but slight chance of any
of the six surviving. Several other persons
only escaped from the flames and dense
smoke with cuts and bruises
Fire on Tenth Avenue.
A few hours earlier deadly fire attacked
the fve-story tenement on 10th avenue,
burning 20 death Mrs. Martin Fox and her
child, George, two and a half years old.
The charred remains of both were found
after the fire.
Mr.. Fox is a hackman, and was not at
home.
The first fire is supposed to have started
in the cellar. The air shaft in the building
and the stairs aided the fire in gaining such
rapid headway that there was no successful
fighting of the flames, which had gained
tremendous headway when the firemen ar
rived The building was occupied by a
liquor store on the first floor, and the
upper floors by families. When the fire
was discovered by man named Ward. the
lIuiutS were coming Out Oh tlle halfway
and must have been burning at least
twenty minutes Ward could not enter the
hall because of the fire, and he ran into
the street and threw stones at the Win
dowS of the house There was no fire
escapes on the front of the building. Pres
emily Ward saw at the fourth-floor window
woman hanging on the ledge, the fire
having already invaded her rooms. She
proved to be Della O'Connell. Her sister
was also climbing out of the window, and
she had already been severely burned and
half suffocated by the smoke.
Rescued by the Firemen.
Both women were hanging from the win
dow ledge when hook and ladder truck
came up. The men at once put up scaling
and extension ladders and tiremen climbed
up. At the fourth floor another woman,
Mrs. Susan McAdee, sixty years old, was
found partly burned and dazed by the
smoke, hanging out of a window
The tiremen tied rope around Mrs. Nc
Adee and let her down. She was safely
landed and was taken to the hospital.
Three fremen got up to the O'Connell
women and they caught them in their
arms, not an instant too soon. The women
were carried down the extension and seal
ing ladders. Both were badly burned about
the body.
By this time more women and men were
found at the windows, having been hurried
out of their rooms by the fierce flames
which ate their way rapidly into every
apartment of the house.
few of the people escaped by the rear
where there happened to be fire escapes,
and they got to the yard with the greatest
of difficulty and choking from smoke.
None of them was hurt.
ChiId's Desperate Plight.
Hook and Ladder Captain Turpenny
scaled ladder to the top floor and there
found little Mary Barrett. holding on to
the window ledge. She was burned about
the face, hands and body, and a sheet of
flame had struck her in the eyes and
burned them out.
Her father, mother and little sister were
burned to death. Their bodies were found
on the hoor beside the window out of which
the little girl had crawled The doctors
say she canont live.
Mary Seary was found at one of the nm
per noor windows, crouchng in n corner
100 ~suHocated by smoke and too mucb
burned to be able to help herself Her con-
dition is serious - Soii
Kate Farley was found at a second-storv
Wihdo" ana a fireman helped her down ~
lhe street. There We're two bodies that op
q man and of woman, which could not
Ior some time be identified. The Farley
woman, niece of the Barretts, lived win
them. Will