Abilene weekly reflector., 1899-04-13
FEARFUL HOLOCAUST
Thirteen Persons Lose Their Lives
by d Fire in New York.
BRIDGE IN GREAT DANGER FROM ICE
An Ice Gorge In the North blasting
Powder txDi,,dts = stricken Dead In
L0urt--A shell ExD,O tes-TrnCk
ktpairer nun over

New York, April S.--A disastrous
fire visited the wealthiest section Of
this city during the early morning
hours Of yesterday and caused the
death of l3 persons. Nine or ten per.
sons were injured, one of whom will
die A mother and her three little
children perished. The list of dead is
almost equally divided between people
of unusual wealth and servants. The
fire spread so rapidly that it gave no
chance Of escape. The amount Of dam.
age to property is estimated at about
S9sO, OOO The fire originated at the
corner Of Sixty-seventh street and
Fifth avenue, in the house occupied
by Wallace G. Andrews, president of the
New York Steam Heating company.
There were in the house IA persons,
fast asleep. How the fire originated
is still mystery, though it seems
tolerably certain that an explosion
of some kind occurred, but whatever
was the cause the flames gained hold
with such rapidity that only two es-
capped from the building. One of these
is so badly injured that she has no
chance of surviving. The fire commu-
nicated TO Sixty.ninth street and, in
the house of Albert j. Adams, serv-
ant was burned to death, thus bring
ing the total of victims to l3. So thor
oughly did the flames do their work
that, when the gutted Andrews house
was searched, the corpses were so
charred as to be almost beyond posi-
tive Identification.
BRIDGE IN GREAT DANGER FROM ICE.
Cheyenne, Wyo, April Son &C.
count of an ice gorge in the North
Platte fears are entertained that the
railroad bridge of the Cheyenne &
Northern at Orin junction will bt
swept away Workmen are trying t.
break the gorge with dynamite. The
water has risen nine feet since Thurs.
day night The Laramie county
bridge at Hartville is also threatened
and a force is at work trying to save
it. High water ali along the line OF
the Union Pacific is causing consider
able trouble and the company has
force Of men constantly employed
strengthening embankments.
BLASTING POWDER gxPLoDEs.
PlNolE, CAL, April s. S-Twenty-fve
cans of black powder used in blasting
In the construction works at Point
Richmond, on the Valley road, ex.
ploded. James Hogan was killed and
Thomas Keefe burned so badly he will
die. Daiquil, the superintendent, was
burned about the face and arms, but
will recover.
STRICKEN DEAD IN COURT.
Hopkinsville. KY, April S.-Judge
R. 7. Petree, the nestor of the south
ern Kentucky bar, dropped dead here
yesterday shortly after concluding a
three.hours' argument in court. He
was formerly Judge Of the Third Ken.
tucky judicial district
A SHE'LL ExPLoDEs IN ARSENAL
Brussels, April S.-By the accidental
explosion of shell in the fortress of
Huy yesterday two soldiers were killed
and two officers and four soldiers were
wounded. A street adjoining the for
tress was devastated by the explosion.
TRACK REPAIRER RUN OVER.
South McAlecter, |. T., April 81.
c. Mcclure, foreman Of track repairs,
was run over by train here yester.
day and had one Of his legs cut off,
from the effects OF which he died.