The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-08
TWELVE PEOPLE ROASTED IN A
NEW YORK MANSION.
Flames Seemed to Burst From All Parts Of
the Building at Once-Vain Efforts
TO Save.

ablaze. A servant at the window is
thought to have been Mary Laughlip
for her dead body was found later ut
the foot of the stairs leading from the
fourth floor to the roof. Tightly clasped
in her arms was the family pet dog.
When the Adams house caught fire Il
number Of the policemen. firemen and
the large number of the people who were
at the other fire rushed around to Sixty
ninth street. The policemen knocked on
the doors and finally gained an entrance
into the Adams house, and got the family
out without serious injury. The ser
wants were frantic in their efforts to
escape, and Mary Malloy and Minnie
Bogue jumped from the rear of the
fourth floor to the extension from
which they were taken down.
Nellie Quinn was cut off on the fourth
floor and appeared at a front window
about to jump.
The crowd yelled to her to wait, but
there was no time as the flames were
licking her clothes. The desperate wo-
man put her hands over her eyes and
jumped, as she thought, to the ground,
but instead landed ON the roof of the
bow window one store below, and lay
there stunned.
Policemen Louis G. Wagner, McInery
and Hillman saw the woman's peril, and
running into the house at No >, went to
the fourth floor. Wagner was held by
the heels and he made a thrilling rescue
of the frantic woman
ool fa fif,ft hn
in this house to the third and fourth
floors The body of Mary l.aaghlin was
found at the foot of the stairs leading
to the roof.
About 6 o'clock the firemen had suffi-
GENTLY mastered he fire to perm.r i
search of the Andrew house. They
found the bodies OF the two remaining
st. John children ana the bodies of
what are Thought IL he the two SER
wants, Marie Roth AMI Kate Dcwn.Lg.
At 11:15 O'clock the iiremen fourd
Mr. Andrews body. 1t was badly
burned and parss of the legs were miss
ing. 1t was not recognizable, but was
identified later in the day by the filling
of the teeth.
At 3 o'clock the workers in the debris
found body of large stature, but badly
burned. 1t was identified later by IA
dentist as that of Mrs Andrews.
At various other times before O'Clock
the workers found the charred remains
of four more persons, probably the ser
wants.
The FIRE was in the wealthiest Part
of the city.
Rumors that the fire was of incendiary
origin were investigated during the day,
and found to have their basis in the fact
that there was Il quarrel among the ser
wants in Mr. Andrews country home
last summer, resulting in the discharge
of one of the servants One of the do
mestics received an anonymous letter
last week which she showed to the police.
but it contained no threats and was dis
missed as being trivial matter.
The amount of damage to property IS
estimated at about S220,00O. pretty well
covered by insurance.
Mr.. st. John arrived in New York at
o'clock this afternoon over the Pennsyl-
vana railroad. He went at once to his
home, perfectly ignorant of the reasons
which caused the SHdden summons for
him to New York, and when he saw
the ruins of his house and was told of
the horrible fate of his wife and three
children he bore up manfully. though it
was apparent that he had to summon all
his strength of will to do it,. 1t is eX-
pected that Mr.. st. John will take the
bodies of his wife and children, and those
of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews To WillOugh-
by. Ohio, tomorrow, for interment