Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-19
EIGHT PERSONS
BURNED TO DEATH
Several Others Injured in a New
York Blaze Today.
TENEMENT HOUSES BURNED
One Woman PerIshcd Trying 10 snvc
Her tbiid-rerribic sccncs-siay
be More Deaths.

New York. Dec. i0.-seven lives were
lost In two big tenement houses. which
were destroyed by FIRE In this city early
today. Five charrcd bodies were found
ON the upper floors Of burned tcnc-
mcnt at one Hundred and Second
street and Third Avenue. known M the
Mentor. and i've women and a little
girl. all badly burned. were carried
from tho blazing house TO nearby
hospitals. There Is thought to be but
slight chance OF any OF the six surviv-
Ing.
Several other persons only escaped
from the flames and dense smoke with
cuts and bruises.
Three members OF the family Of four
persisted. viz;
John Barrett. wife and daughter
Julia. the latter years old.
The other dead are; Mrs. Giles and
Miss Annie Farrcy. and Richard
Nlckorson. mechanic. OF Cincinnati.
The Injured are: Della O'connell. ?s;
Kate Farley, %: susan McAdcc, CO.,
Mary Bnrrctt. 0; Manic scary, 20: Kate
Farcy. 20.
Adolph Schneider one OF the tenants.
that his wife and daughter were MISS
ing.
4 few hours earlier fire attacked the
fve-story tenement on Tenth Avenue,
burning TO death Mrs Martin Fox and
her child, George, two and half years
The charrcd remains OF both were
found after the fire.
Mr.. Fox Ia n hackman and was not at
home.
The IRE at one Hundred and Second
street and Third Avenue Is supposed to
have started In the cellar. The air
shaft In tho building and stairs aided
the fire In gaining such rapid hetsiway
that there was no successful fighting OF
the flames. which had gained tremen-
dous Roadway when the iiremen ar
rived.
The building was occupied by llquor
store on the first floor Lnd ON the up
per noorH by families. When the IRE
was discovered by n man named Ward
the flames were coming out OF the hall
way, The man could not enter the hall
WY. hut he, ran INFO the H,rcrt and
threw stones at The building. There was
no FIRE escape In the front OF the build
Ing. Presently Ward saw at the fourth
floor window woman hanging on the
ledge. the fire already having Invaded
her rooms. She proved TO be Della o.
connor Her sister was also climbing
out Of the window and she had already
been severely burned and half sutfo-
Gated by smoke.
Both women were hanging on the
window when hook and ladder truck
came up. The men at once put up
scaling and extension ladders and fire.
men climbed up. At the fourth floor
another woman. Mrs. Susan McAdeo. co
years old. was found partly burned and
dazed by smoke. hanging out OF n
window. The flrcmen tied n rope
H. NIasA j.. a...I - l.. .
ly down. Thrf drcmen caught the
OConnoll woman In their arms not an
instant too soon. Both were badly
burned. ny this time many mon and
women were found nj the windows hav-
ing been driven out Of their rooms by
the flames
A few OF the people escaped by the
rear where there were fire escapes.
Hook ana Ladder Captain Turpenny
scaled n ladder 20 the top floor and
found little Mary Barrett, holding on
20 the window ledge A sheet OF
burning Nom out. Her father, mother
and my sister were burned TO death.
The doctors "a. she cannot live.
Mary sequrey was found at one OF the
upper floor wlndowH crouching In n
corner. too. suffocated by smoke and too
much burned TO be able TO hcln her.
self.
The loss on the building was 10000.
The other IRE In Tenth Avenue, nenr
Thirty eighth street, started In the
basement or first floor hallway and
when II wns discovered had such a
Roadway that II was impossible to en-
ter. The families on the upper part OF
the house fed TO the roof when they
easily reached the street. The fremen
or going through the house. after tho
fire had been subdued found two bodies
nj the foot Of the stairs on the third
floor Tho positions showed that the
woman had been trying to carry her
children up the stairs. The damage to
the building by the fire was compara-