The record-union., 1899-12-20


morning tenement house fires in this
city resulted in the death of at least
seven persons to-day. The greater loss
of life resulted from fire in the Mem
tor apartment house, at the corner OF
Third avenue and One Hundred and
Second street, where five persons were
burned to death and nearly a dozen
more or less seriously injured through
burns or suffocation by smoke.
The dead persons are: Patrick Bar
rett, 33 years old; Mrs. Patrick Barrett,
~ years old; Julia Barrett, their six
year-old daughter; Richard Nickerson,
36 years old, mechanic of Cincinnati;
an unknown woman, about % years old
Those who were SO severely injured
that they had to be taken to the hos
pital are: Mary Barrett. 8 years old.
daughter of the Barretts; Miss Susan
McAdee, 6 years old; Mary Farley, %
years old.
The other fire occurred in a five story
tenement at 4S6 Tenth avenue. Mrs,
Martin Fox and her son, George, ~
years old, were burned to death
The fire at One Hundred and Second
street and Third avenue is supposed to
have started in the cellar The air
shaft in the building and stairs aided
the fire in gaining such rapid Roadway
that there was no successful fighting
of the flames, which had gained tre-
mendous Roadway when the firemen ar
rived.
The building was occupied by liz
quor store on the first floor, and on the
upper floors by families. When the
fire was discovered by a man named
Ward the flames were coming out of the
hallway. The man could not enter the
hallway, but he ran into the street and
threw stones at the building. There
was no fire escape in the front of the
building. Presently Ward saw at the
fourth floor window a woman hanging
on the ledge, the fire already having
invaded her rooms. She proved to be
Della O'Connel. Her sister was also
climbing out of the window, and she
had already been severely burned and
half suffocated by smoke
Both women were hanging from ther
window when a hook and ladder truck
came up. The men at once put up seal
ing and extension ladders, and the fire.
men climbed up. At the fourth floor
another woman, Mrs. Susan McAdee.
60 years old, was found partly burned
and dazed by smoke, hanging out of
a window. The firemen tied a rope
around Mrs. McAdee and let her safely
down.
Three firemen caught the O'Connel
women in their arms, not an instant too
soon. Both were badly burned
By this time many men and women
We're found at the windows, having
been driven out of their rooms by the
flames. A few of the people escaped
by the rear, where there were fire es-
capes.
Hook and Ladder Captain Turpenny
scaled a ladder to the top floor, and
found little Mary Barrett holding on to
the window ledge. A sheet of flame
had struck her in the eyes and burned
them out. Her father mother and lit
tie sister We're burned to death The
doctors say she cannot live.
May Seary was found at one of the
upper floor windows crouching In a
corner, too suffocated by smoke and
too much burned to be able to help
herself.
The loss on the building was SAC, 900.
Another fire. in Tenth avenue, near
Thirty-eighth street, started in the
basement or first floor hallway, and
when it was discovered had such a
Roadway that it was impossible to en-
ter. The families on the upper part of
the house fed to the roof, when they
easily reached the street The firemen
on going through the house after the
fire had been subdued found two bodies
at the foot of the stairs on the third /.
floor. The positions showed that the
woman had been trying to carry hen
child up the stairs
The damage to the building by thu
fire was comparatively small