El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
Eleven People Lose Their
Lives In a New
York Fire.
SPLENDID MANSIONS
Prove To Be VeritabIe Fire
~traps For the Family
Of a Million
aire.

NEW YORK, April 7.-Eleven per
sons lost their lives in two fires which
destroyed mansions in the million aire
section of Fifth avenue early this morn
ing.
The first blaze started in the re-
sidence of Wallace G. Andrews. the
millionaire president of the New York
Steam Heating company, No. e East
67th street. The magnificent palace
proved to be deathtrap, as nearly ev,
cry inmate perished, including the
millionaire and his wife, who were
found at o'clock this morning locked
in each others arms. Mrs. ST. John,
their daughter and three children
also met death, ss did four servants.
Two persons, servants, alone escaped
from the building by jumping. They
are in the hospital fatally hurt.
A spark blown two blocks th ro1gh an
open window. from which young wo-
man was watching the fire in the An
drews mansion, ignited the house of
Albert J. Adams, a we'll known real
estate and sporting man. ct No. 3 East
Goth street. The house keeper, Mrs.
Mary Loue him, who was asleep on the
top floor, persisted. Five other persons
were slightly injured in the fire.
The police, after a thorough investi-
cation of the ruins of the Andrews
mansion, concluded that the fire start
ed through gas explosion which oc-
Cured inr the basement of the house.
Those who perished in the Andrews
mansion, as so far known, are as fol-
lows: Wallace Andrews, father; Mrs.
Andrews, mother; Mrs. G. @. ST. John.
daughter: Austin ST. John, Z; Wallace
St John, 3; Fred ST. John. 13 months:
Mary Baldwin, servant; Mary Flanni-
gan, servant; Annie Neary, servant;
Eva Peterson, Servant.
The injured are Jennie Burns, laun.
dress; Alice White, cook.
The Andrews mansion was complete
ly gutted and it was three hours
before the fremen and police could be-
gin to search for the dead. Body after
body was carried out, laid on the side
walk, and then carried to a nearby |
police station.
While the fire was at it's height in |
the Andrews mansion, Miss Adams, !
daughter of Albert J, Adams, a real |
estate dealer, living three blocks away
at No. 3. East Goth street, opened win
low In the Adams house to get better
view of the fire. While watching the
ire a spark from the burning building
,wo blocks away set fire to the curtains
If her room.
Screaming she ran from the room
Ind alarmed her parents. All ran to
he street and an alarm was turned
n.
Miss Adams cries awakened Nellie
Quinn and Mary Mallory, two servants,
,ut by the time they reached the hall
Ways escape was cut off, so rapidly had
he fire spread. They jumped from the
ourth floor to the balcony extension
md were severely injured.
Mary Vogel, another servant, was
lso badly injured by fall. Isabella
md Evelyn Adams, daughters of the
wner of the house, were slightly in
ured by falling debris.
The fire in the Adams house was put
ut after causing $4,000 damage.
When the firemen searched the build !,
ng they found Mrs. Mary Loughlin,
ged 80, burned to death in her bed on
n upper floor. l.
NEW YORK, April There Is ,
Practically no doubt that thirteen lives r
7ere lost in the fires at the Andrews
nd Adams mansions this morning. r
late Downey and Marie Roth, Mrs.
t. Johns maids, are still missing.
Mrs ST. John was still alive when
AIKEN out of the building early this
1orning -py several policemen. They +
orced themselves into her room and
ound her kneeling oyer the baby's r
rib dying. Tenderly as possible she s.
7as carried from the room, through a tt
7indow and down the ladders. When u
hey reached the street they found is