Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-08

Of Alfred j. Adams, block away. Mr..
Adams house was burned through the
ignition of a lace curtain by q spark
! from the Andrews fire. The list of dead
follows:
Wallace c. Andrews. so years old,
president Of the New York Steam Heat
ing company. Body not positively iden-
titled.
Margaret Andrews, his wife. Body
not positively identified.
| Georgjna b. st. John, Mrs. Andrews
sister-in-law and wife of G. G. st. John,
treasurer of the New York Steam Heat
| ing company.
Austin d. st. John, 7 years old.
Wallace st. John, years old.
Frederick st. John, 13 months old
Mary Loughlin, 60 years old, a servant
in the Adams house.
Mary Boland, kitchen maid in the An
drews home. Not identified.
Mary Flanagan, parlor maid in the
Andrews home. Not identified
Ann Neary, a servant Not identified
Eva Peterson, servant.
Kate Downing, servant. Not iden.
titled.
Marie Ross, a servant. Not identified.
The Injured.
The following is list Of those who
were injured:
From the Andrews fire:
Alice White, 80 years old, servant;
burned about body and broken wrist.
Jennie Burns "a years old, servant;
burned and suffering from fracture at
'sse -base of the skull; her condition is
1e emas
Ie Univ the Adams fire:
A.ls. Isabelle Adams, As years old; in
cised wounds in back and shock
Miss Evelyn Adams, 90 years old
shock.
Mary Mallory. 81 years old. servant
fractured left leg.
Minnie Boigh 20 years old, servant;
shock.
Nellie Quinn, maid internal injuries.
Nellie Irwin, confusion of back and
burns.
Irwin BlaZius, a fireman, suffering
from fractured ribs, burned hands and
Commissions of the back.
The fire in the Andrews house was
discovered by Patrolman Mcknight and
by Waterman about the same time.
Mcknight says he stood at the corner
of Fifth avenue and Sixty-sixth street,
when he saw a great flash of light in
Sixty seventh street and heard sound
as of an explosion, and that when he
had run the distance of a block to the
house the flames We're shooting half
way across the street from the upper
windows. He tried to get in the house,
but he was driven off by the flames, It
appearing to him that he could do moth
ing to waken the inmates. he turned IN
an alarm and returned in all haste to
arouse the people in the neighboring
houses
Mr.. Andrews and his wife occupied an
interior room of the second floor. Mrs
st. John, her three children and two
servants, Kate Downing and Maria
Roth, were occupying the third floor.
Mr. st. John was off south on a bust.
ness trip. The other servants had their
rooms on the fourth floor.
Knew of Their Danger.
When the first fire engine arrived. fol-
lowed quickly by a hook and ladder
the servants We're aware of
their danger. but it appears the others
knew nothing of it then and possibly
not at all. Alice White, the cook. leaned
from fourth floor window to an extern
sion In the rear, which rose to the third
Hoor, and was found unconscious there
when the firemen made their way there
soon after. Jennie Burns, a servant.
made the same jump and fractured her
skull When the f1remen found her, she |
was alive, but it Is said at the hospital |
that she cannot recover.
The captain of the first engine COM
oany turned in a second and third alarm |
md set his men to rescue the inmates
# the house. Way was made through
he Rothschilds' house to the rear of |
he burning building and thence through
he windows to the inside. Charles Fay
# engine 80 and Jacobs of hook and lad
Ter 16 reached Mrs. st. Johns room to-
yether. They stumbled over the bodies
If Mrs. st. John and her 3.year-old
'hild Wallace. Mrs. St. John was gasp
ng.
Fey carried her out and climbed with
Ter into the Rothschild house, where
The died in few minutes. Jacobs
picked up Wallace. but the little fellow
lied In his arms. The two firemen clam
'ered up on the extension, where Jennie
Burns and Alice White were lying in
animate. few minutes after the wom-
N We're carried to a safe place, the roof
# the extension being ablaze. Several
bremen tried desperately to make their
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