The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-04-08
ANOTHER
HOLOCAUST.
Thirteen Meet Death in New
YOrk's Millionaire District.
FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY.
Only Two Escaped Death From the
Andrews Residence,
FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY.
AND ONE OF THESE MAY sUooUMB


licemen Saved the Life of One Servant.
The Death List Includes Wallace C. An
drews, His Wife and Sister-in-Lsw and
Three Children of the Latter.
New York, April S.-Fire early in
the morning destroyed the handsome
residence of Wallace G. Andrews, at
No. 2 East Sixty-seventh street, and 12
persons sleeping in the house were
| burned to death. Firebrands carried
by the wind were blown into an open
window in the house of Albert ].
Adams, No. East Sixty-ninth street,
two blocks distant, setting fire to the
house and causing the death of a ser
want. All of the 13 bodies have been
recovered.
Those who lost their lives at the
Andrews fire were: Wallace G. An
drews, president of the New York
Steam Heating company; Mrs. Wal
lace G. Andrews, his wife; Mrs. Georgi-
ana Boyden st. John, wife of Mrs. An
drews' brother, Gamaliel G. st. John,
an official of the New York Steam
Heating company; Orson st. John, Z
years old Wallace st. John, years;
Frederick st. John, 13 months, and the
following servants: Nellie Boland,
Mary Flanagan, Eva Peterson, Kate
Downing, Marie Roth and Annie
Neary.
In the Adams fire Mrs Mary Lough-
nan, aged so years, housekeeper, died
from suffocation and burns
Two servants are in a serious con-
dition in the Presbyterian hospital
and one may die. These two, Alice
| White, a cook, and Jennie Burns, a
laundress, were the only inmates of
the Andrews house who escaped alive
The list of injured at the Adams fire
is: Mrs. Isabella Adams, wife of AL
bert j. Adams, wounded in back, burn
ed, and suffering from shock; Nellie
Quinn, servant, jumped from fourth
floor to an extension, severe bruises;
Evelyn Adams, burns and shock; Min
ME Bogue, servant, sprained ankle and
bruises; Jerry Blazina, fireman, con-
tusions of back; Mary Malloy, leg
fractured, shock; William Stephenson,
bruises and contusions.
Whether the fire started from an eX-
plosion of lamp or of gas has not yet
been determined, but when first dis
covered the flames seemed to burst
from all parts of the house at once.
Policeman Mcknight was at Fifth
avenue and Sixty-siXth street, in front
of the Havemeyer home, when he
heard an explosion and saw the glare
of flames in Sixty-seventh street. He
ran with all haste 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 to break in the door and
arouse the inmates of the house, but
was driven back by the flames. Not
waiting any longer than to arouse the
family of the Rothschilds, in the adj
joining house, No. A, he sent in an
alarm.
When the firemen arrived they saw
1t was impossible to try and gain an
entrance to the Andrews home by the
front door, and they then made an at
tempt through the Rotschilds house.
Firemen Charles Fay, George Jacobs
and John H. Corr went up together
They managed to get in the rear rooms
of the third floor and found Mrs st.
John and her 3-year-old son. Wallace
unconscious on the floor, their night
clothes almost burned off. They were
quickly taken into the Rothschilds
house. Mrs. st. John died within 4
few minutes. Her child died in the
fireman's arms.
The firemen made repeated efforts to
get to the other rooms, but they might
as well have attacked a furnace. The
building could hardly have burned
more fercely If saturated with oil.
Like most New York dwellings, 1t
was high and narrow and encased on
two sides by solid brick walls, and the
effect was like great chimney. The
flames roared and cracked and shot
into the air distance of a hundred
feet or more, throwing a great fiery
spray over the roofs of the surrounding
houses. Several times these caught
on fire, but firemen and servants were
on the roofs with water and chemicals
and thus saved the buildings.
Aside from Mrs. st. John the only
other persons who got out Of the house
alive were Jennie Burns and Alice
White, who appeared at upper win
dows. Before the firemen could raise
ladders to rescue them the women In
their frenzy climbed out upon the sills
and stood, as if determining on which
was the worst fate, to be burned to
death or to jump to death.
The Burns girl climbed out of a
four story window and stared with
mouth wide open at the knot of men
below. At practically the same mo-
ment Alice White climbed out upon the
sill of an adjoining window on the
fourth floor. The fremen cried to the
women not to jump, but the women
were past needing warning. Smoke
was curling above their heads and the
next instant Jennie Burns leaped out
She turned over and over and fell al
most directly upon her head. Hel
skull was fractured in several places
and she was hurried to the Presby-
terian hospital. The other woman
when she saw the fate of her friend
hesitated for a moment; then, as the
smoke thickened, she too jumped. She
| fell upon a rear extension of the build
ing and was picked up unconscious and
severely injured. She was also hur-
ried to the hospital.
While the fire in the Andrews house
was raging great clouds of sparks were
carried with the wind and brand few
! into an open window of the home OF
| Albert j. Adams. 1t caught in cur
tain and instantly the room was sablaze
The servant at the window is thought
to have been Mary Laughlin, for her
dead body was found later at the foot
| of the stairs leading from the fourth
floor to the roof. Tightly clasped in
her arms was the family pet dog.
! When the Adams house caught fire
a number of policemen, firemen ano
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