The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-08


morning destroyed the handsome resi-
dence of Wallace c. Andrews, at No. 2
East 67th street, and II persons sleep
ing in the house were burned to death.
Fire brands carried by the wind were
blown into an open window in the home
of Albert ]. Adams, No. East 69th
street. two blocks distant, setting fire
to the house and causing the death of
a servant. All of the 13 bodies have
been recovered. The dead are:
WALLACE c. ANDREWS, president
of the New York Steam Heating COM
pany. .s...
MRS. WALLACE ANDREWS, wife
of the above.
MRS. 3GEORGIANA BOYDEN ST.
JOHN, wife of Mrs. Andrews brother.
GAMALIEL C. ST. JOHN, an official
of the New York Steam Heating COM
pany.
ORSON ST. JOHN, aged Z.
WALLACE ST. JOHN, aged 3.
FREDERICK ST. JOHN, aged 13
months.
NELLIE BOLAND. servant.
MARY FLANAGAN, servant.
EVA PETERSON, servant.
MARIE ROTH, servant.
N
ANNIE NEARY, servant.
In the Adams fire:
MRS. MARY LAUGHLIN, aged SO
years, housekeeper; died from suffoca-
ton and burns.
ALICE WHITE, a cook, and JEN-
ME BURNS, laundress, the only in
mates of the Andrews house who es-
capped, are in hospital in serious
condition.
r,fi i,,i,, of
is:
Mrs Adams, wife of Albert Adams,
injured in the back, burned.
Nellie Quinn, servant: jumped from
the fourth floor to an extension; severe
bruises.
Evelyn Adams, burns, shock.
Minnie Bogue, servant; sprained an
kle and bruises.
Jerry Blazin, fireman. engine COM
| pany No A; confusion of back
Mary Malloy. leg fractured, shock.
w. A. Stevenson, bruises and contus-
| ions.
Whether the fire started from an ex-
| plosion of a lamp or of gas has not yet
| been determined, but when it was first
discovered at 2 o'clock this morning the
| flames seemed to burst from all parts
| of the house at once.
Policeman Mcknight was at Fifth
| avenue and Sixtysixth street 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 driv-
en- back by the flames. Not waiting
any longer than to arouse the family
of the Rothschilds in the adjoining
house, No 4, he turned in an alarm
| When the firemen arrived they went
through the Rothschild house and man
aged to get in the rear rooms of ths
third floor of the Andrews house, where
they found Mrs. St. John and her three
year-old son, Wallace, unconscious or
the floor, their night clothes almos
burned off. They We're quickly taker
into the Rothschild house. Mrs. st
! John died within a few minutes. Hel
child died in the tireman's arms.
The firemen made repeated efforts
to get to the other rooms, but the!
might as well have attacked a furnace
| The building, if saturated with oil
could hardly have burned more fercely
Like most large New York dwellings
| it WAS high and narrow and encased C1
two sides by solid brick walls and thu
effect was like a great chimney. Tht
flames rcnred and cracked and shot i'll
to the air Il distance Of a hundred fee
or more, throwing a great fiery spra,
over the roofs of the surrounding
houses. All efforts to arouse the in
mates in time to save themselves Wert
fruitless, and aside from Mr. st. JOIN
and the only other persons who go
out of the house alive, were the tw'
servants, Jennie Burns and Alice White
who appeared at the upper window
terror-str.ck cken and needless of the erie
of the firemen that they would rails
ladders to save them. they jumped
Jennie Burns leaped out first. Sh
turned over and over and fell almoS
directly upon her head. Her skull wa
fractured in several places. The othe
woman. when she saw the fate of he
friend, hesitated for a moment, then, o
the smoke thickened, she, too jumped
She fell upon a rear extension of tn
building and was picked up unconsciou
and severely injured.
While the fire in the Andrews hous
was raging great clouds of sparks wer
carried with the wind and a brand fey