The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-08
PERlSHED in FIRE.
The Andrews CONFEDERATION in New
York Was Most Disastrous.
THIRTEEN LIVES WERE LOST
A Dozen Of Them Burned to Death in
the Andrews House.
HOUSE TWO BLOCKS DISTANT FIRED
In II Servant Was Found Dead, CIaspiue
a Pet Dog
GALLANT RESCUfS BY THE FIRE FIGHTERS
Policemen and Firemen Brave tbs
seethiEs Flames TO save Lives.
List OF the Casualties.
HOUSE TWO BLOCKS DISTANT FIRED
Ia Il Servant Was Found Dead, CIaspiug
a Pet Dog.
GALLANT RFscUFS BY THE FIRE FIGHTERS
Policemen and Fircmcn brave ths
ssethins Flames TO Save Lives.
List OF the Casualties.

New York, April Fire early this
morning destroyed the handsome residence
OF Wallace c. Andrews. at No . East SIX
ty-seyeuth street and twelve persons
sleeping IN the house We're burned to
| death. Fire brands carried by the wind
were blown Into an open window 10 tho
home Of Albert Adams, No. sixty-ninth
street. two blocks distant. setting Gre TO
tho house and causing the death OF a SER
want All OF the thirteen bodies have been
recovered The dead arc.
WALLACE ANDREWS president OF the
New York Steam Heating company.
MRS. WALLACE ANDREWS,
MRS dEoRGIANo ST. JOHN, wife OF
Mrs Andrews brother an official of the
New York Steam Heating company.
oRSoN ST. JOHN, aged years
WALLACE ST. JOHN, years
FREDERICK sr. JOHN. 10 months.
NELLIE ROLAND, servant.
MARY FLANAGAN, servant.
EVA PETERSON, servant
KATE DOWNING. servant.
MARIE ROTH, servant.
ANNIE NEARY, servant.
In the Adams fire;
MRS. MARY LAuGHLIN. aged 90 years,
housokeeper, died from suffocation and
burns.
Alico White, cock, and Jennie Burnr.
laundress the only inmates OF the An
drews house who escaped, ure in the hos
pital in SERIOUS condition
The list OF injured at the Adams hre is:
q, if.Hr 4
Adams, injured IN tho back, burned sui
ferlng from shock.
Nellie quinn, servant jumped from
fourth floor to an exclusion, severe bruises.
Evelyn Adams. burns, shock,
Minnie nogie, servant, sprained ankle
and bruises.
Jerry BlazIn. fireman, confusion ON tho
back
Mary Malloy. leg fractured, shock.
william Stevenson. brulseg and contu-
sions.
whether the nro started from an ey-
plopiun Of lamp or OF gas has not yet
been determined, but when II was hrst
discovered at > o'clock this morning the
flames seemed TO burst from all parts OF
the house at once. Policeman Mcknight
was at Fifth avenue and sixty sixth street
when be heard an explosion and saw tho
glare Of flames in SiXty-seventh street.
He ran TO the spot and found tongues OF
IRE leaping from the upper windows Of the
Andrews house aud half way across the
street lie tried TO break In the door and
arouse tha inmates of the house hut was
driven back by the flames. Not waiting
any longer than 10 arouse the family OF
tho Rothschilds, in the adjoining house.
he sent IN an alarm. When the hremen
arrived they went through the Rothschilds
house and managed to get IN the rear
rooms OF the third floor OF the Andrews
Mo-
her 3-year-old son Wallace unconscious
on the floor and their clothes almost
burned of They were quickly taken into
the Hoihschlds house, Mrs ST. John died
within few minutes. Her child died In
the freman's arms. The hremeu made
repeated efforts to get into the rooms,
but they might have as we'll attacked
furnace. The building II saturated with
oil could hardly have burned more ficrcely,
like moat large New York dwellings, "
was high and narrow. and epcased on two
sides by solid brick walls, and It was like
a great chimney, the flames reared and
cracked and shot into The air distance
OF hundred feet or more. throwing
great fiery spray over the roofs OF the
surrounding houses
All efforts to arouse the inmates In time
to save themselves were futile, and aside
from Mrs ST. John, the only other per-
sons who got out OF the house alive were
White, who appeared at the upper windows
terror stricken and. Needless of the cries
OF firemen that they would raise ladders
and save them. jumped.
Jennie Burns leaped out first. She turned
over and over and fell almost directly
upon her head. Her skull was fractured In
several places The other woman. when
she saw the fate OF her friend, hesitsted
for moment. then as the smoke thick
ened, she, too. jumped
She fell on a rear extension OF the build
ing and was picked up unconscious and
severely Injured.
While the ire In the Andrews house was
raging, great clouds of sparks were car
ried with the wind and a brand flew into
an open window OF the home OF Albert J.
Adams
II caught Ia a curtain and instantly the
room was abaze. A servant at the window
Is thought TO have been Mary Laughln,
for her dead body was found later. Tightly
clasped in her arms was the family pet
log.
When tho Adams house caught IRE
number OF policemen and iremen gained