Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-08
THIRTEEN PERISH
By an Early Morning Fire
in New York City.
Doomed Ones Penned in by Flames
Houses Burn Like finder.
Three Children Among Dead One Whole
Family Is Wiped Out.

YORK Steam Heating 90. NO. :, East
eth street, and l. persons. almost the
entire household, was burned or Suilo-
Gated to death. The residence Of Al
bort J. Adams at No. >. East 63th
street. caught fire from the sparks from
The Andrews house ana one woman
persisted in the flames. and number
If persons We're injured. This is not
far from the ruins Of the Windsor IIo-
tel which was burned. three weeks ago
All the bodies in the fire Of today have
been recovered. The dead:
Wallace &. Andrews. president Of the
New York Steam Heating co, owner
Of the house. burned.
Mrs. Wallace e. Andrews. his wife.
Mrs. Georgianna Royden st. John.
wife az Mrs Andrews brother.
Gamaliel St John. an official Of thu
New York Steam Heating 60.
Orson ST. John, aged : years.
Wallace st. John. aged 3 years.
Frederick St John, aged u months.
Nellie Roland servant.
Mary Flanagan, servant,
Eva Peterson. servant
Kate Downing servant.
Marie Roth, servant.
Annie NCary. servant.
In the ADAMS fire:
Mrs Mary Laughlin. aged 30 years,
house keeper, burned 81 death
At the present hour this Is the total
number Of victims of the FIRE. al
though two servants are i'm u serious
condition in the Presbyterian hospital,
and one may die. These two. Alice
White. cook aud jennie Burns. laun-
dress. were fhc only inmates IF the
Andrews house who escaped alive.
The list Of injured al the Adams fire
H.
Mrs isabelle Adams wife Of Albert
j. Adams. spine injured. burns. suffer
ing from shock. Taken to Presbyterian
hospital and afterwards to home or a
friend.
Nellie quinn. servant. jumped from
fourth floor to an extension. severe
bruises, taken to Presbyterian hos
pit4l.
Evelyn Adams, burned. shock. Pres
byteriau hospital.
Minnie Rogue, servant, sprained
ankle and bruises. Presbyterian hos
pital.
Jerry Elazina fireman, engine NJ. q.
commissions Of back. Presbyterian hos
pital and home.
Mary Malloy. leg fractured. shock.
Presbyterian hospital
VIM. Stephenson. bruises ana con
tuSions. Presbyterian hospital
Whether The fire. started from an eX-
plosion of lamp or Of gas has not yet
been determined. but when it was first
discovered. at o'clock this morning.
the flames seemed to burst from all
parts of the house at once \ police
man heard an explosion ana saw the
glare of flames in 9th street. He ran
to the spot and found tongues Of fire
leaping from the upper windows of the
Andrews house and half way across
the street He tried to break in the
door and arouse the inmates of the
house but was driven back by the
flames. Not waiting to arouse the fam
lily Of the Rothschilds. in the adjoining
house No. (. he sent in an alarm.
When the tiremen arrived they saw
il would be impossible to gain an en-
trance to the Andrews house by the
front door ana they made an attempt
through the Eothschilds house. Three
fremen managed to enter the rear
rooms on the third floor and found Mrs.
St John and her 3-year-old son Wal
lace on the floor their night clothes
almost burned off. They We're quickly
taken into the Eothschild house. where
Mrs st John died within a few min
utes. Her child died in the fireman s
arms.
The tiremen mad" repeated efforts to
enter the other rooms. but they might
as well have attacked Il furnace. The
heat was terrible. The building seem
ed thoroughly dried and if saturated
with oil it could hardly have more
fcrceIy burned. Like most large New
York dwellings, it was high and narrow
and is cncased on two sides bv solid
brick walls ana the effect was like a
great chimney The flames roarcd and
cracked ana shot I'm in the air a dis
lance Of i hundred feet or more. throw
ing Il great fiery spray over the roofs
IF the surrounding houses. Several
times these caught on fire but the fire
men aud servants were on the roofs
with water aud chemicals.
All efforts to arouse the inmates in
time to save themselves were frutlcSs
and aside from Mrs. ST. John. the only
other persons who got out of the house
alive We're til" two servants Jennie
Burns and Alice White. Before the
frcmcn could raise ladders 10 reach
thcm.S the women. in their frenzy,
climbed out on the silIs and stood. as
if determining which was the worst
fate, to DC burned to death or to jump
IL
out Of = 4-story window. At the same
momcut Alice White climbed out upon
the sill of an adjoining window on the
fourth floor.
The firemen cried to the women not
to jump. but the women were past
needing warning. Smoke was curling
above their heads and the next instant
Jennie Burns leaped. She turned over
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