The San Francisco call., 1899-04-08

get into the other rooms, but they might
as we'll have attacked a furnace. The
building If saturate ted with oil could hardly
have burned more fiercely. Like most
large New York dwellings, it was high
and narrow and encaSed on two sides by
solid brick walls and the effect was like
a great chimney. The flames roared and
cracked and shot into the air a distance
of a hundred feet or more, throwing a
great fiery spray over the roofs of the
surrounding houses.
All efforts to arouse the inmates in time
to save themselves were fruttless, and
aside from Mr.. st. John the only other
persons who got out of the house alive
were the two servants, Jennie Burns and
Alice White, who appeared at the upper
windows terror-stricken and, needless Of
the cries of the firemen that they would
raise ladders and save them, jumped.
Jennie Burns leaped out first. She
turned over and over and fell almost di-
rectly upon her head. Her skull was frac-
tured in several places. The other woman,
when she saw the fate of her friend, hes
ltated for moment, then, as the smoke
thickened, she too jumped. She fell upon
a rear extension of the building and was
picked up unconscious and severely in
jured.
While the fire in the Andrews House
was raging great clouds of sparks were
carried with the wind and a brand flew
into an open upper window of the home
of Albert ]. Adams. 1t caught in cur
tain and instantly the room was ablaze.
A servant at the window is thought to
have been Mary Laughlin, for her dead
body was found later Tightly clasped
in her arms was the family pet dog.
When the Adams house caught fire a
number of the policemen and firemen
gained an entrance and got the Adams
family out without serious injury. The
servants were frantic in their efforts to
escape, and Mary Malloy and Minnie
Bogue jumped from the rear Of the fourth
floor to the extension, from which they
were taken down.
Nellie Quinn was cut off at the fourth
floor, and, appearing at a front window,
put her hand over her eyes and jumped
as she thought to the ground, but instead
one story below, and lay there stunned
Policemen Louis c. Wagner McInerney
and Htllman saw the woman's peril, and,
running into the house at No s. went to
the fourth floor. Wagner was held by the
heels, and made thrilling rescue. The
hremen managed to conf1ne the fire in
this house to the third and fourth floors.
About o'clock the firemen had Suf-
ficient mastery over the fire to permit Of
search of the Andrews house. They
found the bodies of two of the remaining
St John children and the bodies of what
are thought to be the two servants, Marie
Roth and Kate Downing. At Ills o'clock
the firemen found Mr.. Andrews body It
wasVbadly burned and parts of the legs
were missing. The workers in the debris
found a body which was identified later
by dentist as that of Mrs. Andrews
AT various other times before o'clock
the workers found the charred remains of
lOuI more peISOUS, PROBABLY the servants.
Two of them were identified as the bodies
of Eva Peterson and Marie Roth.
Mr.. st. John arrived in New York at 8
o'clock this afternoon over the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. He went at once to his
home, perfectly ignorant of the reasons
which caused the sudden summons to
New York, and when he saw the ruins
of his house and was told of the horrible
fate of his wife and three children he bore
up manfully, thoupgh it was apparent
that he had to summon all his strength of
will to do it.