The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
THIRTEEN PEOPLE KILLED
Another Holocaust in
New York.
FEARFUL WORK OF FLAMES

wants go 90 Their Death I'm the Burn
ing Of n New York Residenee-Ffre.
brands Set Fire TO another House,
Where Death Again Yellowstone
Of the Victims Meet Death by Leapsng
From the Windows.
New York, April Fire early this
morning, destroyed the handsome resi-
dence of Wallace c. Andrews at No. 2
East S~ixty-seventh street, and twelve
persons sleeping in the house were
burned to death Fire brands carried
by the wind were blown into an open
window in the home Of Albert J.. Ad-
ans, No. 3 East S~ixty-ninth street, two
blocks distant, setting fire to the house
causing the death of a servant All of
the thirteen bodies have been recov-
cred.
The dead are: Wallace c. Andrews,
president of the New York Steam
heating Company. Mrs. Wallace C.
Andrews, wife af the above. Mrs.
Georgiana Boyton st. John, wife of
Mrs. Andrews brother. Camaliel G..
ST. John, an official Of the New York
S~teamheating Company. Orson St.
John, aged Z years. Wallace st. John,
aged 8 years. Frederick st. John, aged
Ii months. Nellie Boland, a servant.
Mary Flanagan, servant. Eva Peter
son, a servant. Kate Downing, a SER
want. Marie Roth, a servant. Annie
Neary, a servan Mrs. Mary Laugh
lin, aged SO years house keeper in the
Adams establishment, died from suffo-
cation and burns.
Two servants are in a serious cOndi-
ton in the Presbyterian hospital, and
one may die. These two, Alice White,
a cook, and Jenny Burns, laundress,
were the only intimates of the Andrews
house who escaped alive.
The list Of injured at the Adams fire
n mbers seven, among them being Mrs
Jabelle Adams, wife of Albert ]. Adj
ans, wounded in the back, burned, suf-
fering from shock.
Whether the fire started from an e
plosion of a lamp or of gas has not yet
been determined, but when it was first
discovered at 2 o'clock this morning
the fal.-es seemed to burst from al
parts of the house at once. Policeman
Mcknight, of the East Sixty-seventh
street station was at Fifth avenue and
Sixty-sixth street in front Of the Hav-
eymer home when he heard an explo-
sion and saw the glare of the 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
| oorncc tho ctroof Hn frio6 fn hrnoE
in the door and arouse the inmates Of
the house, but was driven back by The
flames. Not waiting any longer tt
arouse the family of the Rothschilds
in the adjoining house, No. 4, he SEN
in an alarm.
When the fremen arrived they saw
it vas impossible to try and gain al
entrance to the Andrews house by tht
front door, and they then made an at
tempt through the Rothschilds' house.
Fireman Charles Fey, of Engine No
80; Jacobs, of Hook and Ladder No. II
and John H.. Corr went up together
They managed to get in the rear room!
of the third floor and found Mrs. ST
John and her 3 year old son Wallace
unconscious on the floor, their nigh
clothes almost burned off. They wer'
quickly taken into the Rothschilds
house. Mrs. st. John died within a few
!, minutes. Her child died in the fire
) mans arms.
The firemen made repeated efforts II
get to the other rooms, but they nigh
as well have attacked a furnace. Th'
building, if saturated with oil, coult
, hardly have burned more fiercely. Lik'
most New York dwellings, it was higl
and narrow and encased IN two side'
by solid brick walls and the effect was
/ like a great chimney. The flames roar
ed and cracked and shot into the air
distance Of 100 feet or more, throwing
+ a great frey spray over the roofs OF thu
surrounding houses. Several time
t these caught fire but the firemen ant
servants were on the roofs with waite
E and chemicals and extinguished tn
flames.
/ All efforts to arouse the inmate II
time to save themselves were fruitles
and aside from Mrs. st. John, b oul,
other persons who got out of the hous
alive were the two servants, Jenn,
Burns and Alice White, who appeare'
at upper windows.
Before the firemen could raise lad
0 ders to reach them, the women climbe
t out upon the stills. With all thei
strength the iremen cried to the VIC
0 men not to jump, but the women wer
past needing warning. Jennie Burn
leaped out. She turned over and fel
almost directly upon her head. He
skull was fractured in several places
THE other woman, when she saw tn
fate OF her friend, hesitated for a INC
ment, then as the smoke thickened, sh
. too, jumped. She fell upon a rear ez
, tension of the building and vas pickle
/ UP unconscious and severely injured.
While the fire in the Andrews hous
, was raging, great clouds Of sparks weI
= carried with the wind and a brand fe'
into an open window Of the house {
? Albert ]. Adams. 1t caught in a cul
tain and instantly the room was ablaz
A. servant at the window is thought
have been Mary Laughlin, for her dea
body was found later at the foot of th
stairs leading from the fourth floor
the roof. Tightly clasped in her arm
was the family pet dog.
When the Adams house caught I'll
r a number of policemen, iremen an