The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-20
SEVEN BURNED TO DEATH.
,,Yrs LOST AND 4 PERSONS INJURED
IRA TENEMENT FIRE.

s,ycd Many other Tenants-StnirwnyS
.oan. and Fire Escapes all Clicked.
MAO ,onement-ho house fires early yesterday
,i,, boye already caused the death OF seven
n,.ons and other deaths will probably follow.
'. 10Th fires the general circumstances were
A. souo the flames had gained such headway
sa,ors the sleeping tenants we're all aroused
,h,, somc of them had no chance OF escape
This is the list OF casualties:
DEAD.
nIsli Third avenuoi
p,peytr p,rRicE. ~ years old.
p,aprrr Mus. DELLA aged 2s.
p,ypErr, JuttN years ola.
,aaI,n,,sea nan believed to be Richard DECKER
wousn burned beyond recognition.
A. 4us Tenth avenue;
I.,ldcntaed woman, supposed to be MIS- Kate
Fox wife Of tho lanitor'
son james. ,r,r,
utsii Third avenue;
p.,rs,, Mamie y years old daughter OF the desd
n, and Mrs. rarret; sight destroyed and terribly
burned will die.
,,"ps, Nrs Della 40 year old: probably fatally.
r.,I.. nate. 25 years old; face and hands
Tlrry Mamie. 49, burned about tho arms.
ncnnror. ella 81: burned about the arms and
chest.
Tho Injured. except the o'Connor girl. who
was cared for By neghbors. were taken 10 the
Harlan Hospital. At an early hour this morn
ing no further deaths had occurred. but two
cases were considered hopeless.
II was about I o'clock in the morning when
shakcr whose shop IL across lO2d street from
the nve.story tenement house at the southeast
r,rper Of Third avenue. while finishing up his
81, inc tra flames
the ground floor windows OF the tenement.
and A moment later another glare at tho top
story That meant, he knew. that the fiames
hal run up the air shaft beside the stairway
and that nothing but prompt measures could
ave the lives OF the tenants. In the street
uasa pile OF loose stones. Standing beside
this he began to hur the stones through the
windows as fast as he could throw. yelling attho
ION OF his voice. Fire! Fire. The yelling
aroused a saloon keeper on the corner who
sent in a FIRE alarm.
One OF the bakers well aimed rocks broke a
tor.aoor window and fell uron the bed where
peIa O'Conuor. a boarder with the Barrett
family. was sleeping. She smclled the smoke
AMI throw opcn her door only to be driven TO
The window by the flames. but her shriess
aroused the Barretts and Mamie Ferry. who
also boarded there. Mr.. and Mrs. Barrett
could not &c, to the front windows and per-
ished probably. almost the instant they threw
their door oren. admitting the flames. With
them died their little girl. Julia. Meantime
the other tenants who had discovered in time
that TO attempt the hallway meant death. Were
srordiug the front windows and balconies. and
their screams awoke people for blocks
around BY his me the fremen were on
hsul. They had made swift time. and there
more Ia the lives that depended on them. Seal
ladders and extension addsrs were run up
end the nrem n.1, werr GhiskE oTsy PnssinG
oiEngne 30 went through the adjoining house
and ron he top floor window hered to res
passing 10 him his wife and dauGht ter across the
SPACE while c.inging with leg and hand ho.d
bfiye ~ Brien Of Hook and Ladder 10 got
old Mrs. McBee from top floor window when
ss OF from all Other GhancS hut Ito toqnd
low rescuers and the recued that he cou tn't
&c, down. so he untsstened the rore from his
Covered her down. Another. brennan got Della
0tolror who was hanging by her hands from
hand and swung, half around Just as the res
cler got 70 her Mamie Ferry was taken from
ne next Etnlow ka.e Farley was taken
Thu. pr 9Say all q the a., nrGmSn had been
persons AZ the windows having been brought
down. AT in short time the lire was out It's
a.o.s. H. tie Barrctt- anartments the bodies
Of Nr AMI Mrs. Barrett and Julia were found.
n fT n cav Barrett was s"f found IN
s,,k.sag nsy rGm isaruIiy charrS1 and i6a
.oa aGS toor the BODY d an Unknown H womae
was found. I, Is thought she may have been
saving with ono o., the families on the top
third floor tenants, reported that Richard Dick.
stson their 6oariSri was missing. and a
waY they ei!eve 10 be his lie must have run
70; the roof believing that escape was shut OF
The Arc, ike many tenement fires which
cost dear In human lie. Ill not do great dam
age to the building, Fiye.or six thousand dol
alton a 10 how the blaze started but is origin
was rrohah!y on tn ground floor. OF the score
10 par; 10 tho fremcn. except the JanitresS and
her boartcr. who crawcd along cornice 70
The tve-story tenement house at 406 Tenth
avenue was discovered to BE- atre at 2:3O
0cloes YESTERDAY morning by Special Police
!Iio he building, shouting. The Railways were
tnll Of smoke and the stairs were beginning 70
the street b IT, front t way Wv Within very rSE Few
moment, however. that exit was cut of. and
sire .o, shouted e. them TO 20 to the rear and
get down the fire escape. some did this and
Patrick Carver. made their way to the roof and
m msGHra sa,",y ~ IasI,g oyer to other tsne-
by the tim" llO"kiand Ladder - had its lad
ierS W AT the front. most of the tenants were
nale II was Supposed thnt all Of them We're
but Wh'n the flames were drowned out the
.search,Eg ir"men found, on the fourth floor
Snr Code' Of Il woman ami ch,lh both burned
neyond recognition, All OF the tenants OF this
moor We" accounted for but Mrs, Martin 70,
anu her Nv" and half-ycgr-old child. who LIVED
On the second floor, could not ne found. IL II
believed that Mrs Fox. with the boy in he
arms. made her way to THE fourth floor. where
sue ieIl overcome by the smoke Her husband
and his brother. Martin were both away at
'ehnflng % their business as cabmen.
nj u" ios- on the tenement wns about $4,000
IN" hremtu believe that the flames wcr,
Nar,el ~ I've coais n box OF ashes put un