The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-08
ONE FAMILY is DESTROYED.
Ono OF the Most Terrible Disasters
That has Yet Happened
in New York.
NINE PERSONS BADLY INJURED.
Frcnzied With Terror Many Leap
From the Windows of
Fourth Story.

morning destroyed the handsome resi-
dence of Wallace c. Andrews, at No.
East sixty-seventh street, and twelve
persons sleeping in the house were
burned to death. Fire brands carried
by the wind we're blown into an open
window in the home Of Albert ]. Adams,
No. 3 East Sixty-nlnth street. two
blocks distant. setting fire to the house
and causing the death Of 4 servant. All
of the thirteen bodies have been recov-
cred The dead are:
Wallace C. Andrews, president: Of the
New York Steam Heating Co.
Mrs. Wallace C. Andrews. wife Of the
above.
Mrs. Georgiana Boyden, st. John, wife
of Mrs. Andrews brother.
Gamaliel C. St. John. an official Of the
New York Steam Heating Company.
Orson st. John. aged seven.
Wallace st. John, aged three.
Frederick st. John, aged thirteen
months.
Nellie Boland, servant,
Mary Flanagan, servant
Eva Peterson. servant.
Kate Downing, servant
Maria Roth. servant.
Annie Neary, servant
In the Adams fire: Mrs. Mary Laugh
lin, aged fifty years, housekeeper, died
from suffocation and burns.
Alice White. u cook, and Jenny Burns,
laundress, the only inmates Of the
Andrews house who escaped. are in the
hospital in serious condition.
The list Of injured at the Adams fire:
Mrs. Isabella Adams. wife Of Albert j.
Adams. injured in the back, burned,
suffering from shock.
Nellie Quinn. servant, Jumped from
fourth floor to an extension; severe
bruises.
Evelyn Adams, burns. shock.
Minnie Bogue, servant, spralned ankle
and bruises.
Jerry BlaZin. fireman engine company
No. "A, contusions Of back.
Mary Malloy. leg fractured. shock.
William Stevenson, bruises and con-
tusions.
Caused by Explosion.
Whether the fire started from an eS-
plosion OF q lamp or of gas has not yet
been determined, but when it was first
discovered 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 SlXty-sixth street when he
heard an explosion and saw the glare of
flames in Slxty-seventh street. He ran
with all haste TO the spot and found
tongues Of fire lcaplng 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 driven back by the flames. Not
waiting any longer than TO arouse the
family OF the Rothschilds In tho ad-
Joining house, No. 4, he sent in an
alarm. When the tiremen arrived they
went through the Rothschild house and
managed to get In the rear rooms Of the
third floor of the Andrews home. where
they found Mrs. St. John and her three
year-old son. Wallace. unconscious on
the floor and their clothes almost burned
of. They were quickly taken into
the Rothschild house. Mrs. st. John
died within u few minutes. Her child
died In the fireman's arms.
The firemen made repeated efforts to
get to the other rooms. but they might
us we'll have attacked furnace. The
| building II saturated with oil could
hardly have burned more flercely. Like
most large New York dwellings. it was
high nnd narrow and encased on two
sides by solid brick walls and the effect
was like great chimney. The flames
roarcd and cracked md shot Into the
air distance Of hundred feet or more,
throwing n great fiery spray over the
roofs Of the surrounding houses.
Crazcd With Terror.
All efforts to arouse the inmates in
| time to save themselves were frul,less
and aside from Mrs. st. John, the only
other pcrosns who got out Of the house
alive were the two servants. Jennie
Burns and Alice White, who appeared
Mt the upper windows stricken with tor
ror anu needless Of the cry of the fire.
men that they would raise ladders and
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