The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-07
BY COnfiagratiOn Which Broke
Out This Morning
INWEALTHY QUARTER
Residences of George Gould and
Perry Belmont In Danger.
Heroic Rescues and Distressing
Scenes Witnessed.


Before the day is over it may be found
that the death list has been swelled to
fourteen. for during the early morning
hours four persons were missing and
two so badly injured that they may die
OF the eight victims known, three were
children.
The injured number seven.
THE DEAD.
Following are the names of those
known to he dead:
WALLACE c. ANDREWS, president
of the New York Steam Heating COM
pany-
MRS GEORGIANA b. ST JOHN,
sister-in-law OF Mrs. Andrews, and wife
of G.. c. St. John.
AUSTIN B. ST. JOHN, 7 years old
WALLACE ST. JOHN. 3 years old
FREDERICK ST. JOHN. Is months
old. These three were children of Mrs.
St John.
JENNIE BURNS, a servant.
MARY LOUCHLIN, a servant.
MISSING.
Mary Roland, kitchen maid.
Mary Flanagan. parlOr maid.
Ann NearV, servant.
Eva Peterson. servant.
THE INJURED.
Mrs. EIizabe Adams, shock.
Evelyn Adams.
Kate Downing. servant. slight burns.
Marie Roby, Sigh burns and asphyX-
iation.
Alice White, cook, confusion and
Mamie Boggue. servant, shock.
Nellie Quinn, servant, internal in
juries, serious.
The fires were in the home of Wallace
c. Andrews, president of the New York
Steam Heating company. at No. East
SiXty-seventh street and in the home
of Albert ]. Adams, at No. East Sixty
ninth street. The fire started in the
Andrews house and the Adams resi-
dence caught later in the morning. The
fire was discovered about a. m.
A policeman was passing in front OF
the Havemeyer residence in East Sixty
sixth street when he heard an explosion
and saw a great flash of light in sixty
seventh street. He ran thither with all
speed. When he arrived the flames were
shooting out of the upper floors of the
Andrews house. They lsaped half way
across the street The policeman tried
to get into the house to arouse the oc-
cupants. He was driven back by the
flames. He then turned in an alarm
and returning got the people out of
w. H. RothschiId's house, which is
close by.
A WEALTHY NEIGHBORHOOD
Around the corner of SiXty-seventh
street and Fifth avenue are the homes
of some of New Yorks Wealthiest men.
Next to the Adams house, which was
handsome fOur-stOry brownstOne affair,
is the splendid home of H. Q. Armour,
of the Chicago firm of packers Next to
that is the home of Perry Belmont.
Directly opposite this is the house of
George ]. Gould.
With the arrival of the first engine
company the value of the property
threatened was apparent and a second
and later third alarm were turned in.
While some of the fremen fought the
flames with hose and chemicals, others
rushed into the Rothschild house and
from there into the Andrews house by
way of the rear windows But they
then "a mir d.
die room of the third floor the fire
men stumbled over the bodies of Mrs.
ST. John and Wallace. her 3-year-oId
child The child was dead, but Mrs St.
John was still alive and gasping for
breath A fireman picked her up and
staggered with her to the. Rothschild
house. but she died as she was being
carried in.
CLASPED IN EACH OTHERS ARMS.
Mrs. St. John. her children and two
servants. Kate Downing and Marie
Roby. were all on the third floor. Mr..
St John. who is treasurer of the New
York Steam Heating company. and a
brother OF Mrs. Andrews vas not at
home during the fire. Mr.. Andrews and
his wife occupied the middle room on
the second noOr. There two hours later
their bodies were found. clasped in each
others arms. They were so charred as
to be almost beyond recognition
The servants of Andrews were on the
fourth or top floor. Alice White the
cook, leaped from the window to an ex-
tension across the third floor. She was
found there unconscious by a fireman
Jennie Burns, another one of the ser
wants, jumped from the same window
to the extension. She crushed in her
skull and died in the hospital four hours
later
Mary Holland. the kitchen maid. Mary
Flanagan, parlOr maid. Ann Neary and
Eva Peterson, the four remaining SER
wants were on the fourth floor It is
feared they are lost.
After the firemen had rescued Alice
White and Jennie Burns from the roof
or the extension just before the flames
reached that locality, another desperate
effort was made to get into the An
drews home, but the conf1agration had
gained an extraordinary hold and it
was impossible to force an entrance
Ihe flames shot into the air to the
oelght of a hundred feet
A STRONG WIND
strong wind blowing from the souta
swept the flames north. On the north
slde of 69th street was the handsone
nome of Albert J. Adams the million
are sporting man. better known as s.AI-'
Aualns- His family had been aroused
pE the tumult- A servant opened the
front window to see what il was an
aoout- Just then gust of wind sweDt
N burning Goals through the omen win
COW ADAMS house was on fire in a
second and began to blaze fercelv
Inc inmates of the Adams house vvere
pahIc stricken by this sudden outbI,rst
OF names Nellie Quinn and Mamie
NogeI, servants, tried to rush down the
stairway but that avenue of es1ar,a - -,
alTSadN Of he e@1