The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-12-23
FATAL TENEMENT FIRE
Five Charred Bodies Recovered
and Six Badly-Burned People
Are in Hospitals.

New ork, Dee. 19.-Seyen lives were
lost in two big tenement houses which
We're destroyed by fire in this city early
today. Five charred bodies were found
on the upper floors of a burned tenement
at One Hundred and Second street and
Third avenue, known as the Mentor. and
hve women and 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 per
sons only escaped from the flames and
dense smoke with cuts and bruises. Three
members of Il family of four perisbed,
VIZ: John Barrett. wife, and daughter
Julia, the latter Il years old. The others
dead are a woman believed to be Miss
Annie Farrey and man named Rich
ard Nickerson of Cincinnati.
The injured: Della O'Connell, IS:
Kate Farley. -: Susan McAdee. 80:
Mary Barrett, 9; Mamie Seary, %; Kate
O'Connell, 26.
Another Tenement Fire.
Adolph Schneider. one of the tenants Of
the building, reported to the police after
the fire that his wife and daughter were
missing
A few hours earlier a deadly fire at
tackled the tive-story tenement on Tenth
avenue, burning to death Mrs Martin
Fox and her child. George. 2la years old.
Ihe charred remains of both were found
after the fire. Mr.. Fox is a hackman
and was not al home
The first fire is supposed to have start
ed in the cellar. The air-shaft in the
building and the stairs aided the fire in
gaming such rapid headway that there
was no successful fighting of the flames.
winch had gained tremendous hpadway
when the firemcn arrived. The building
was occupied by liquor store on the
first floor and on the upper floors by
1amllles. When the fire was discovered
the flames were coming out of the hall
way.
Women Hanging from Ledges.
There were no fire escapes on the front
of the building. At the fourth floor win
dow woman was hanging on the ledge.
the hre having already invaded her
rooms. She proved to be Della O'Cou-
nell. Her sister was also climbing out
of the window and she had already been
severely burned and half suffocated hv
the smoke. Both women were hanging
from the window ledge when Il hook and
ladder truck came up. The men at once
put up scaling and extension ladders and
fremen climbed up. At the fourth floor
another woman, Mrs. Susan McAdee.
was found partially burned and dazed by
the smoke, hanging out of Il window. The
~ '4itNh ti't AZ l'pt dlbulb hIS. NtAUcp
and let her safely down. Three tiremen
arms. not an instant too soon. Both We're
badly burned about the body.
BY this time more women and men
We're found ut the windows, having been
driven out of their rooms by the flames
\ few of the people escaped by the rear,
where there Were fire escapes.
ChiId's Eyes Burned Out.
II
sealed ladder to the top floor and there
fcound little Mary Barrett. holding onto
the window ledge. i sheet of fame had
struck her in the eyes and burned them
out. Her father. mother and little Sis
ter were burned to death. The doctors
say she cannot live.
Mary Seary was found at one of the
upper floor windows crouching in Il cor
ner. too Suffocatei by smoke and too
much burned to be able to help herself
The loss on the building was $4,000
The fire, in Tenth avenue near Thirty
eighth street. started in the basement or
first floor hallway and when it was dis
covered had such Il headway that it was
impossible to enter. The people in tho
upper part Of the house fled to the roof
whence they easily reached the street.
The tlremen on going through the house
after the flames had been subduei found
two bodies at the foot of the stairs on the
third floor. The positions showed that
the woman had been trying To carry her
child up the stairs. The damage to the
building by the fire was comparativeIy
small.