The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-08
INCENDIARISM HINTED.
Homes of W. G, Andrews and Albert J.
Adams Quilted Victims Charred Be-
yond Recognition-Thought Dis
charged Servant Set the
Edifice on Fire.

a fourth-story window. At the same
moment Alice White climbed out upon
the sill of an adjoining window on the
fourth floor. The firemen cried to the
women not to jump, but they We're past
needing warning.
Smoke was curling above their heads,
and the next instant Jennie Burns
Ieaped out. She turned over and over
and fell almost directly upon her head.
Her skull was fractured in several
places. The other, when she saw the
awful fate of her friend hesitated for
a moment, then as the smoke thickened,
she too jumped. She fell upon rear
extension of the building and was
picked up unconscious and severely in
jured.
While the fire in the Andrews house
was raging, great clouds of sparks were
carried by the wind north, and brand
flew into an upper open window of the
home of Albert j. Adams, No. 8 East
seth street 1t caught in a curtain and
instantly the room was ablaze The SER
want at the window is thought to have
been Mary Laughlin, for her dead body
was found later at the foot of the stairs
leading from the fourth floor to the
roof
The servants in this house were fran
tic in their efforts to escape, and Mary
Malloy and Minnie Bogue jumped from
the rear of the fourth floor to the ex-
tension from where they were taken
down by the butler, assisted by fire.
men, police and some citizens. Nellie
Quinn was cut off on the fourth floor,
and appeared at a front window about
to jump. The crowd yelled to her to
wait but there was no time, as the
flames were licking her clothes.
The desperate woman put her hand
over her eyes and jumped, as she
thought to the ground, but instead
landed on the roof of the bow window,
one story below, and lay there,
stunned She was brought down from
there in safety. The Adams family
were also rescued, two of the daugh-
tiers, however, being injured. 1t was
almost o'clock before the firemen had
sufficient mastery over the fire to per-
NIT a search of the house. When they
were able to do it, they found the bod
les of the two remaining st. John chill
dren and the two servants. All were
badly charred.
The bodies of the two servants were
sent to the morgue, while the bodies of
Mrs. St John and her three children
were taken to the East 9th street sta
ton.
At Ills o'clock the firemen found Mr..
Andrews body. 1t was badly burned,
and parts of the legs were missing. AT
O'Clock the workers in the debris
found body of large stature but bad
IL burned 1t was identified as that
of Mrs Andrews.
At various other times before 5
o'clock the workers found the charred
remains of four more persons, probably
the servants. Two of them We're iden-
t;fed as the bodies of Eva Peterson
and Marie Roth. Mr.. st. John, who
is vice president of the New York
steam Heating Company, was in Will
rnington. Del, at the time of the fire.
Immediately upon hearing of the dis
aster. two of his friends, Mr.. Kennedy
and Mr. Throckmorton, undertook to
find him and break the news.
They telegraphed from place to place,
and finally learned that he was in New
ark. They went over there and broke
the news to him. He came back with
them to the city. He went at once
to the place where his home had been,
and stopping to look for a few min
utes at the blackened mass, he went to
the home of a relative.
Coroner yucca said the inquest will
probably be held Friday.