The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-08

morning destroyed the handsome resi-
dence of Wallace c.. Andrews ut No Z
East Sixth Seventh street, and twelve
persons sleeping in the house were hlif-
ed to death. Fire brands carried by the
wind were blown into an open window
in the home of Albert J. Adams, No. :.
East Sixty-Ninth street, two blocks 1iS'
tant, setting fire to the house and ca,is-
ing the death of Il servant. All O. tbe
thirteen bodies have been recovered.
The dead are:
WALLACE G.. ANDREWS, pf, sIlpAt
of the New York Steam Hea9ins Com
pany.
MRS. WALLACE G. ANDREWS,
wife of the above.
MRS. GEORGIANA BOYDEN ST
JOHN, wife of Mrs. Andrews broth
G.ANIALIEL G.. ST. JOHN, an official
of the New York Steam Heating Com
pany.
ORSON ST JOHN, aged 7 years.
WALLACE ST. JOHN, aged years
FREDERICK ST. JONI, aged IS
months.
NELLIE BOLANjDS. servant.
MARY FLANAGAN, servant.
EVA PATTERSON, servant
KATE DOWNING, servant.
MARIE ROTH, servant
ANNIE NEARY, servant.
Mrs. Mary LaughIin, aged 80 years,
housekeeper in the Adams establishment,
died from suffocation and burns.
Two servants are in a serious condi-
ton III the Presbyterian Hospital aud
one may die. These two, Alice White,
"A cook. and Jenny Burns. Iaundress, were
the only inmates of the Andrews mouse
who escaped alive.
The list of injured at the Adams
fire numbers seven, among chem ICING
Mrs Isabelle Adams, wife of Albert T
Adams, wounded in the back, Larned.
suffering from shock.
Whether the fire started from an ex-
plosion of a lamp or of gas has not vet
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.
Policeman Mcknight, of the East
SiXty-seventh Street station was at Fifth
avenue and Sixty-sixth street in front
of the Havemeyer home, when he heard
an explosion and saw the glare of flames
in Sixty-seventh street. He ran with
all haste to the spot and found tongues
Of ire 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 any longer to arouse the family
of the Rothschilds. in the adjoining
house, No. 4, he sent in an alarm. When
the iiremen arrived they saw it was i'm
possible to try and gain an entrance
to the Andrews house by the front
door, and they then made an attempt
through the Rothschids house.
Fireman Charles Fay, of engine So;
Jacobs, of Hook and Ladder No. 16,
and John III. Corr went up together
They managed to get in the rear rooms
OF the third floor and found Mrs. St
John and her three year old son Wal
lace, unconscious on the floor, their night
clothes almost burned off. They were
quickly taken into the Rothschilds house.
Mrs. st. John died within a few min
utes. Her child died in the freman's
arms.
The fremen made repeated efforts to
get to the other rooms, but they might as
we'll have attacked Il furnace. The
building if saturated with oil could
hardly have burned more fiercely. Like
most New York dwellings, it was high
and narrow and encased ON two sides by
solid b:ick wall; and the effect was ike
il great chimney. The flames roared
and cracked and. shot into the air a dis
tance of Il hundred feet or more throw
ing II great fiery spray over the roots
Of the surroundings houses. Several
times these caught fire but the hremen
and servants were on the roofs with
water and chemicals and extinguished
the flames. 3S7IywI
AN efforts to arouse the inmates in
time to save themselves were fruitless
and aside from Mrs. 81, John the only
other persons who got out of the house
afive We're the two servants. Jennie
Burns and Alice White, who appeared
at upper windows.
Before the tiremen could raise ladders
to reach them the women climbed ol't
upon the sills With all their strength
the firemen cried to the women not to
jump. but the women We're past needing
warning. Jennie Burns leaped out. She
turned over and over and fell almost di
rectly upon her head. Her skull was
fractured in several places. The other
woman, when she saw the fate Of her
friend, hesitated for a moment, then,
as the smoke thickened, she, too, jumped.
She fell upon II rear extension of the
building and was picked up unconscious
and severely injured.
While the fire in the Andrews. house
was raging, great clouds Of sparks were
carried with the wind and brand flew
into an open upper window of the house
of Albert ]. Adams, 1t caught in
curtain and instantly the room was