The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-04-08
NEW YORK'S LATEST HORROR.
Loss of Twelve Lives in the Burning of
the AnNreWs MRnston.


New York, April Fire this morning
destroyed the residence of Wallace G.
Andrews the president Of the New York
Steam Heating company, at No. East
Sixty-seventh street, and twelve per-
sons, almost an entire household, were
burned or suffocated to death. The
residence of Albert J. Adams at No. 3
East Sixty-ninth street caught fire
from sparks from the Andrews house
and one woman perished in the flames,
and a number Of persons We're injured.
This is not far from the ruins of the
Windsor hotel, which was burned three
weeks ago with it's list Of forty-six dead
and number missing. All of the
bodies in the fire of to-day have been
recovered. The last found was that of
Mrs Wallace c. Andrews, burned al
most beyond recognition. The dead are:
Wallace c. Andrews, president of the
New York Steam Heating company,
owner of the house burned; Mrs. Wal
lace C. Andrews, his wife; Mrs. Georgi-
anna Boyden St. John, wife of Mrs.
Andrews brother, Gamaliel c. st. John,
an official of the New York Steam Heat
ing company; Orson st. John, aged
seven years; Wallace ST. John aged
three years. Frederick st. John, aged
thirteen months; Nellie Boland, SER
want; Mary Flanagan, servant; Eva
Peterson, servant; Kate Downing, SER
want; Marie Roth, servant; Annie N.
Eary, servant.
In the Adams fire: Mrs. Mary Laugh
lin, aged fifty years, housekeeper, burn
ed to death.
At the present hour this is the total
number of victims of the fire, although
two servants are in serious condition
in the Presbyterian hospital, and one
may die. These two, Alice White, cook,
and Jennie Burns, laundress, were Che
only Inmates of the Andrews house who
escaped alive.
The list of injured at the Adams fire
is: Mrs. Isabelle Adams, wife of Albert
j. Adams, spine injured, burns, suffer-
ing from shock. Taken to Presbyterian
hospital and afterward to the home Of
a friend; Nellie Quinn servant. jumped
from fourth floor to an extension, severe
bruises, taken to Presbyterian hospital;
Evelyn Adams, burns, shock, Presby-
terian hospital; Minnie Bogue, servant
sprained ankle and bruises, Presby-
terian hospital; Jerry Bazina, fireman
engine NO A, contusions of back Pres
byterian hospital and home Mary NAL
10y. leg fractured, shock Presbyterian
hospital; William Stephenson, bruises
and contusons, Presbyterian hospital.
Whether the fire started from an ex-
plosion of a lamp or of gas has not yet
been determined, but it was first discov-
cred al 2 o'clock this morning and the
flames seemed to burst from all parts
of the house at once. The policeman
heard an explosion and saw the glare
of flames in Sixty-seventh street. He
ran to the spot and found tongues of
fire leaping from the upper windows of
the Andrews house and half way across
the street. He tried ia break in the door
and arouse the inmates Of the house,
but was driven back by the flames Not
waiting to arouse the family of the
Rothschilds, in the adjoining house, No.
4, he sent in an alarm.
When the firemen arrived they saw it
was impossible to try to gain an en-
trance to the Andrews house by the
front door, and they then made an at
tempt through the Rothschild house.
Three firemen managed to get in the
rear rooms of the third floor and found
Mrs. St, John and her three-year-ol
son Wallace unconscious on the floor,
their night clothes almost burned off
They were quickly taken into the
Rothschild house Mrs. st. John died
within a few minutes Her child died
in the fireman's arms. The firemen