Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-07
Flames Started in the Wealthy
Section
SPREAD FOR TWO BLOCKS
Heroic Rescue Was Made by Police
man--A List OF the Dead,
Injured and Missing

New York, April 1.-At o'clock this
| (Friday) morning fire broke cut in the
fve-stcry dwelling at No. 2 East Sixty
seventh street, the home Of Wallace
Andrews, president of the New York
Steam Heating company. The fire
spread very rapidly, and though the
iremen made desperate efforts to get
the inmates out of the house, they We're
only partially successful. for at least
two lives We're lost. The victims are ne-
lieved to be Mrs. ST. John, the daughter
Of Mr. Andrews, who with her husband
and several children, lived with Mt An
drews: Austin st. John, 10 years old, Mr..
Andrews grandson. Several members of
the family were carried out unconscious.
| The house is in the very heart Of the
district occupied by the homes of New
York's richest millonaires. The house
or the corner is occupied by H. O. AT
mour, the wealthy beef packer The
house at No 4 is occupied by Mr.. Roths-
child The firemen found it impossible to
save the Andrews house and devoted most
of their energies to saving the Armour
and Rothschild properties. Many times
both were on fire, but the vigilance OF the
firemen as often put out the flames.
$50 a. m-Six bodies have been taken
from the ruins Of the Andrews dwelling
and several other persons are reported 10
be missing.
A second alarm was turned in and the
firemen made desperate efforts to get out
the inmates of the house. They were only
partially successful. Several members
of the Andrews family were carried out
unconscious.
The iremen We're unable to get into the
Andrews house aR late as $3.50 O'clock The
roof caved in and the interior was a
lseethng cauldron of fire. Sparks shot
high into the air as from blast furnace
and several surrounding mansions were
ignited. but in most cases fi1emen or SER
wants, were on the roof with water and
put the fires out In their lncipiency.
| They were not successful in this, how
ever in the case of the handsome five
story stone house of Alfred Adams, at No.
3 East SiXty-ninth street. This house was
almost directly in line with the An
dreWs home, but two blocks north. 1t had
no sooner caught than the flames spread
with alarming speed. Fortunately the
family had been aroused by the other fire
and We're all taken out by the police eX-
tcept one unknown woman and Mary Ma
lone, 2S years old, a servant. The latter
was seriously burned and may die. She
was taken to the Presbyterian hospital.
In the case of the unknown woman, a
most heroic rescue was effected. The WO-
man appeared on the coping of fourth
floor window and was about to jump
when the crowd yelled to her to wait A
J policeman ran into the next house and
dashed up the stairs to the fourth floor on
a level with the imperilled woman. Lean
ing far over the coping he caught her by
the arm and with mighty effort he
swung her cut into space and then drew
J her into the room with him. The crowd
wildly applauded the poiceman's daring.
| MI TO hn sl,,-tl4l
ian hospital. The damage to Mr.. Adams
house is very heavy. The interior is pro-
bably destroyed.
Fireman c.. Jacobs. of truck 16 and
Fireman John Carr, of another company,
distinguished themselves during the
burning of the Andrews house. They
went into the flames repeatedly and
brought people out Alfred Adams, the
owner of the Sixty ninth street house, is
said to be the we'll known sporting man
CAP Adams.
At 4 o'clock there We're six women In all
at the Presbyterian hospital. In the eX-
ctement all of the inmates and the extent
of their injuries cannot be learned. 1t is
not impossible that the missing servants
and some of the six women are identical.
| There We're two reports as to the identi-
ty Of the body of child taken rom the
Andrews house. The first report had it
, that Austin, eight -yearS-Old. was the Nc
that the body was that of Wallace, thrnc
years-od All three children, Austin,
wears: Wallace. years old, and Freder-
ick years old, are missing and probably
D dead Mr. Andrews and his wife have not
. been found despite a thorough search of
, the neighborhoOd, They are both believ-
. ed to have been lost In the flames Mr..
D Andrews owned the house at S54 Fifth av-
enue which was connected with the house
D in which he lived by an "L'' extension.
, The firemen had to run their lines of hose
, through the Fifth avenue house and the
y water damage is considerable.
Mr. B. H. RCthschilds house was heav-
lily damaged by fire in the upper. floors
, and by water below. He was obliged to
move his family ont and save as much of
his effects as ne could in he excitement.
, | Deputy Chief Purroy was in charge of
the firemen and the police reserves of be
surrounding stations were on guard.
The neighborhood is one of the richest in
the world and the police were on the look
out for thieves who might take advantage
| of the disorder to ply their trade. Dep