Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-04-13
A HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST.
Thirteen Lives Lost as the Result a
the Burning of Two New
York Residences.
THEY WERE PALACES OF THE WEALTHY.
The Fire Started from an Explosion
I'm the Home of Wallace C.. An.
dreyvs, President of the New York
Steam Heating Co.-Nearly all of
the Inmates Among the Victims.

Steam Heating Co.-Nearly all of
the Inmates Among the Victims.
New York, April Sire, early
yesterday, destroyed the handsome resi-
dence of Wallace c. Andrews, at No. 2
East SiXty-seventh street, and IL per-
sons sleeping in the house were
burned to death. Fire brands, carried
by the wind were blown into an open
window in the home Albert J. Adams,
Nc. East Sixty-ninth street, two
blocks distant, setting fire 20 the house
and causing the death of a servant. All
o. the IS bodies have been recovered.
The dead are:
The Casualties.
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, CANA.
lieI c. St. John. an official of the New
York Steam Heating Co.
Orson st. John, aged seven years.
Wallace ST. John, aged three years.
Frederick st. John, aged Is months
Nellie Roland, servant.
Mary Flanagan, servant.
Eva Peterson, servant.
Kate Downing, servant.
Mare Roth, servant.
Annie Neary, servant.
Alice White, cook, and Jenny
Burns, laundress, the only inmates Of
the Andrews house who escaped, are
in the hospital in a serious condition.
II the Adams fire:
Mrs. Mary Laughlan, aged so years,
housekeeper, died from suffocation
and burns.
The list of injured at the Adams fire
Is:
Mrs. Isabella Adams, wife of Alber.
J. Adams, injured in the back, burned,
suffering from shock.
Nellie Quinn, servant, jumped from
Fourth floor to an extensions; severe
bruises.
Eveleyn Adams, burns, shock.
Minnie Bogue, servant, sprained
ankle and bruises.
Jerry Blazin, fireman Co. No. A, con-
fusion of back.
Mary Malloy, leg fractured, shock.
William Stevenson, bruises and con-
tGsions.
Rapid Spread of the Flames.
Whether the fire started from an ex-
plosion of lamp or of gas has not yet
been determined, but when it was first
discovered at two o'clock il the morn
ing the flames seemed to burst from all
parts of the house at once.
Policeman Mcknight was Mt Fifth
avenue and Sixty-sixth street, when he
heard an explosion, and saw the glare
Of flames in Sixty-seventh street. He
ran with all haste to the spot, and
found tongues of fire leaping from the
upper windows of the Andrews house
and half way across the street.
Jumped to Almost Certain Death.
Ali efforts to arouse the inmates in
time to save themselves were fruitless,
anG aside from Mrs. ST. John, the only
other persons who got out of the house
alive were the two servants, Jennie
Burns and Alice White, who appeared
a. the upper windows terror-stricken
and needless of the cries of the fire.
men that they would raise ladders aud
save them, they jumped.
Jennie Burns leaped out first. She
turned over and over, and fell almost
directly on her head. Her skull was
fractured in several places. The other
woman, when she saw the fate of her
friend, hesitated for moment, then
as the smoke thickened, she, too,
ri
sion of the building, and was picked
up unconscious and severely injured.
The Adams Residence Fire.
When the Adams house caught on
fire a number of the policemen and
firemen gained an entrance, and got
the Adams family out without aerious
injury. The servants were frantic in
thei- efforts to escape, and Mary Nal
10y and Minnie Rogue jumped from the
rear of the fourth floor to the extern
sion. from which they were taken
down.
Nellie Quinn's Jump.
Nellie Quinn was cut off on the
fourth floor, and appearing at front
window, put her hand over her eyes
anC. Jumped, as she thought to the
ground, but instead landed on the roof
os the bow window, one story below,
and lay there stunned. Policemen
Louis C. Wagner, McInerny and Hill
man saw the woman's peril, and run
ming into the house at No. 5, went &c
the fourth floor. Wagner was held by
the heels and made thrilling rescue
of the woman. The firemen managed
IN eonf;ne the fire in this house to the
third and fourth floors
Formal Invitation Received.