The record-union., 1899-04-08
Later Particulars Show That Thir-
teen Lives Were Lost,
While Many People Were Injured, Two
Being In Serious Condition.


Burned to Death, While the
Housekeeper at the Adams
Home Died From Suffocation.
| NEW YORK, April THE fire which
early this morning destroyed the hand
some residence of Wallace c. Andrews
at No. 2 East Sixty seventh street, re-
suited in twelve persons sleeping in tine
house being burned to death. Fire
brands carried by the wind were blown
| into an open window in the home of
Albert j. Adams, No. 3 East Sixty
ninth street. two blocks distant, setting
fire to the house and causing the death
of a servant All the bodies have been
recovered. The dead:
! In the Andrews fire-Wallace c. An
drews, President of the New York Steam
Heating Company; Mrs. Wallace C. An
| drews, wife of the above; Mrs. Georgi-
ana Boyden ST. John, wife of Mrs. An
drews' brother, G. C. ST. John, an Off
Ger of the New York Steam Heating
Company; Orson St John; Wallace St.
| John, aged years; Frederick ST. John,
aged 13 months; Nellie Boland,. servant;
| Mary Flanagan, servant; Eva Peterson,
servant; Kate Downing, servant; Marie
Roth, servant; Annie Cary, servant.
In the Adams fire-Mrs. Mary Laugh
lin, aged 80 years, housekeeper, died
| from suffocation.
| Alice White, cook and Jennie Burns
| laundress, the only inmates of the An
drews house who escaped, are in the
hospital in a serious condition.
ict of iy1i1 Of ~
is: Mrs. Isabella Adams, wife of AL
bert j. Adams, injured in the back,
burned; Nellie Quinn, servant, jumped
from fourth floor to an extension, Sc
we're bruises; Eva Adams, burns, shock;
Minnie Bogue, servant, sprained ankle
and bruises; Jerry Blazin, fireman, En-
CINE Company No. A, confusion of the
back; Mary Malloy, leg fractured,
| shock; William Stevenson, bruises and
contusions.
Whether the fire started from an ex-
plosion of lamp or from gas has not
yet been determined, but when it was
first discovered at o'clock the flames
seemed to burst from all parts Of the
house at once.
A policeman first discovered the fire.
He tried to break in the door and
back by the flames. Not waiting any
longer than to arouse the family Of the
Rothschilds in the adjoining house. No.
4, he sent in an alarm. When the
firemen 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 3-year-old son
Wallace, unconscious on the floor, their
night clothes almost burned off. They
were quickly taken into the -Rothschi!d
house Mrs. st. John died within
few minutes Her child died in the
fireman's arms.
The firemen made repeated efforts to
get into the other rooms, but they might
as we'll have attacked a furnace. The
building if saturated with oil could
hardly have burned more fiercely Like
most large New York dwellings, it was
high and narrow, and encased on two
sides by solid brick walls, and the
effect was like a great chimney. The
flames roared and cracked, and shot
into the air a distance of a hundred
feet or more, throwing a great fiery
spray over the roofs of the surrounding
houses.
All efforts to arouse the inmates in
time to save themselves were fruitless,
and aside from Mr.. St John, the only
other persons who got out of the house
alive were the two servants, Jennie
Burns and Alice White, who appeared
at the upper windows terror-stricken,
and, needless of the cries of the firemen
that they would raise ladders and save
them, they jumped.
Jennie Burns leaped out and fell al
most directly upon her head. Her
skull was fractured in several places.
The other woman, when she saw the
fate of her friend. hesitated for a mo-
ment; then, as the smoke thickened,
she, too, jumped. She fell upon a 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 with the wind, and a brand
flew into an open upper window of the
home of Albert j. Adams. 1t caught in
curtain, and instantly the room was
ablaze. A servant at the window is
thought to have been Mary McLaugh-
lin, for her dead body was found later,
and tightly clasped in her arms was
the family pet dog.
When the Adams house caught fire
number of policemen and firemen
gained an entrance and got the Adams
family out without serious injury The
servants were frantic in their efforts
to escape, and Mary Malloy and Minnie
Bogue jumped from the rear of the
fourth floor to the extension, from which
they were taken down.
| Nellie Quinn was cut of, on the fourth
floor, and, appearing at front window,
put her hand over her eyes and Jumped,
as she thought, to the ground, but in
stead landed on the roof of the bow
window one story below, and lay there
stunned. Policemen Wagner, McIner-
ney> and Hi]lman saw the woman's
peril and, running into the house at
No 3. went to the fourth floor Wagner
was held by the heels, and made a
thrilling rescue of the woman.
The firemen managed to confine the
fire in this house to the third and
fourth floors.
About g o'clock the firemen had suffi-
cient mastery over the fire to permit
of search of the, Andrews house. They
found the bodies Of the two remaining
ST John children and the bodies of
what are thought to be the two serv-
ants, Marie Roth and Kate Downing.
At 11:15 O'Clock the fremen found
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