The age-herald., 1899-04-08
THIRTEEN DEAD
 RESULT OF FIRE New York conRagratiOn Claimed
 !t'y Victims' Al! # <. BODIES RECOVERED Elan Started in the House of
 w, C. Andrews. WIND CARRIED THE FIREBRANDS To an Adjoining Residence, Which
 Also Quickly Caught. SOME THRILLING RESCUES MADE Policeman Was Held by His Heels While He Drew Girl, Who Had
 Painted, Out of Danger of
 the Flames.
SOME THRILLING REsCUEs MADE

New York, April Fire early this morn ing destroyed the handsome residence of Wallace c. Andrews at No. East Sixty seventh street. and twelve persons sleep ing in the house were burned to death. Firebrands carried by the wind were blown Into an open window in the home of Albert J. Adams, No. 8 East Sixty-ninth street, two blocks distant, setting fire to the house and causing the death of a servant All of the thirteen bodies have been recovered.
 The dead are:
 Wallace c. Andrews, president of the New York Steam Heating Company.
 Mrs. w. C. Andrews.
 Mrs. Georgiana Boyd St. John, wife Of Mrs. Andrews brother, c. c. St. John, an official of the New York Steam Heating Company.
 OHson St. John, aged years.
 Wallace St. John, 5 -years.-- Frederick St. John, 13 months. Nellie Roland, servant. Mary Flanagan, servant. Eva Peterson, servant
 Kate Downing, servant.
 Mary Roth, servant.
 Annie Neary, servant.
 Victims of the Adams Fire
 In the Adams fire Mrs. Mary Laughlln, aged 50 years, housekeeper, died from suffocation and burns.
 Alice White, cook, and Jenny Burns. laundress, the only inmates of the Andrews house who escaped, are in the hospital in a serious condition.
 The list of injured at the Adams fire is: Mrs. Isabella Adams, wife of Albert J. Adams, injured in the back, burned, suffer- ing from shock; Nellie Quinn, servant jumped from fourth floor to an extension. severe bruises; Evyn Burns, shock; Minnie Bogie, servant, sprained ankle and bruises; Jerry Blasin, fireman, confusion on the back; Mary Maloy, leg fractured shock; William Stevenson, bruises and contusions. Whether the fire started from the expo- sion of lamp or from gas has not yet been determined, but when it was first dis covered at o'clock this morning the flames seemed to burst from all parts of the house at once.
 Policeman Mcknight was at Fifth avenue and Sixty-sixth street when he heard an explosion and saw the glare of flames in Sixty seventh street. He ran with haste to the house and found tongues of fire leap ing from the upper windows of the An drews house and half way across the
 
 arouse the inmates of the house, but was driven back by the flames.
 Sent in the Alarm
 Not waiting any longer than to arouse the family of the Rothschilds in the ad- joining house, he sent in an alarm. When the firemen arrived they went through tho Rothschilds house and managed to get in the rear room of the third floor of the An- drews home, where they found Mrs. St. John and her 3-year-old son, Wallace, un- conscious on the floor and their clothes almost burned off. They were quickly taken into the Rothschilds home. MT. St. John died within Few minutes. The child died in tho fireman's arms.
 The firemen made repeated efforts to get to the other rooms, but they might as we'll have attacked a furnace. The building, if saturated with oil, could hardly have burned more fiercely. Like most large New York dwellings 1t was high and narrow, and encased on two sides by sold brick walls and these were like a great chimney. The flames roared and cracked and shot into the air a distance of 1G0 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 futile.
 Jenny Burns servant, leaped out first. She turned over and over, and fell almost directly upon her head Her skull was fractured in several places. Another jumped and fell upon a rear extension of the building and was picked up uncon- scious and severely injured.
 Died With Her Dog
 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 J. Adams. It caught in a curtain and in- stantly the room was alaze. 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 num- bers of policemen and firemen gained en- trance and got the Adams family out with out 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.
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