The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-19
Two Big Tenements Destroyed
by Fire In New York.
Five Persons Perish In One and
Two In the Other.
SIX BADLY BURNED.
1t Is Thought That None OF
These Will Recover.
A Number of Others Escaped
With Cuts and Bruises.

New York, Dec. 19.-Seven lives were
lost in two big tenement houses. which
were destroyed by fire in this city early
today. Five charred bodies We're found
on the upper floors of burned tene-
ment at 102nd street and Third avenue.
known as The Mentor and five women
and a little girl, all badly burned. were
carried from the blazing house TO near
by hospitals. There is thought 10 be
but slight chance OF any of the six sur
viving. Several other persons Only es-
capped from the flames and dense smoke
with cuts and bruises.
In the 1O2nd street and Third avenue
fire three members OF a family OF four
perished, viz:
JOHN BARRETT. WIFE AND
DAUGHTER JULIA, the latter years
old.
The others dead are a woman. be-
Heved to be Miss Annie Farrey and a
man named Richard Nickerson, a me-
chanic of Cincinnati
The injured:
Della O'ConnelI. aged IS
Kate Farley, aged %
Susan McAdee. aged 90.
Mary Barrett, aged 9.
Mamie Scary, aged %.
Kate O'ConneH. aged 26.
AdOlph Schneider, one of the ten
ants of the 1929 street building. report
ed to the police after the fire that his
wife and daughter We're missing.
few hours earlier a deadly fire att
tackled the five story tenement ON
Tenth avenue, burning to 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 q haokman and was not
at home.
started in the cellar. The air shaft in
the building and stairs aided the fire in
gaining such rapid headway that there
was no successful lighting of the flames
which had gained tremendous headWay.
when the fremen arrived. The build
ing was occupied by liquor store on
the first floor and the upper floors by
families. When the fire was discovered
by a man named Ward. the flames were
coming out Of the hallway ward
could not enter the hail because OF the
fires, and he ran into the street and
threw stones at the window There
We're no fire escapes on the front of the
building. Presently Ward saw at the
fourth floor window a woman hanging
on the ledge, the fire having already in
Vaded her rooms. She proved TO be
Della O'Connen. Her sister was also
climbing out of the window. and she
had already been severely burned and
half-suffocated by smoke.
Both women were hanging from the
window when a hook and ladder truck
came UP. The men at once put UP
scaling and extension ladders. each fire
man climbed up At the fourth fIoor
81
years old, was found partly burned and
dazed by smoke, hanging out of a win
dow. The fremen tied a rope around
Mrs. McAdee and let her down.
The hremen caught the O'ConnelI
women in their arms not instant too
soon. Both were badly burned
BY this time more women and men
were found at the windows. having
| been driven out Of their rooms by the
flames.
A few of the people escaped by the
rear where there We're fire esca pes.
Hook and Ladder Captain Turpeunv
scaled a ladder To the top floor and
the window ledge. sheet Of fame had
struck her in the eyes and burned them
( out.
Her father, mother and little sister
were burned to death. The doctors say
she can not live.
Mary Seary was found at one Of the
/ upper floor windows crouchinS i'm r
corner, too sunocated by smoke and too
much burned 10 be able TO help herself
The loss on the building was $4,000
The other fire in the Tenth avenue
near 5Sth street started In the basement
first floor hallway and when it was
] discovered had such a hcadWay tnat II
/ was impossible to enter. The families
| in the upper part OF the house lied 10
street. The fremcn on going through
| the house after the flames had neen
subdued found two bodies at the foot OF
! the stairs on the chird floor
I The position showed that the woman
had been trying TO carry her child up
the stairs
The damage To the building by the
fire was comparatively small.
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