Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-07
A FIRE HORROR
Twelve Lives Lost and Seven Peo-
pie Injured in Another New
York Fire.
A MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION
Is Heard by Policeman Who BUSHES to
the Scene to Find Fine 9th Street
Residence in Flames.

New York, April 7.--Twelve lives We're
lost by fire this morning which de-
stroyed the homes of Wallace G. An
drews Of East Sixty-seventh street, and
Alfred Adams of East Sixty-ninth
street. The injured number seven. The
following are the dead: Wallace G. An
drews, president of the New York
Steam heater company; Margaret An
drews, his wife; Mrs. Georgiana B. St.
John, sister-in-law of Mrs. Andrews and
wife of G. c. st. John; Austin B. st.
John, years old; Wallace St. John, 8
years old; Frederick st. John, 13 months
old; Jennie Burns, a servant; Mary
Loughlin, servant; Mary Boland, a
kitchen maid; Mary Flanagan, parlor
maid; Ann McNeary a servant, and
Eva Peterson, servant The injured
are: Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, from shock;
Evelyn Adams; Kate Downing, a serv-
ant, slight burns; Maria Roth, slightly
burned and asphyxiated; Alice White,
cook, confusion and slight burns;
Nellie Quinn, a servant, serious internal
injuries.
A policeman heard an explosion and
saw great flash of light on Sixty-sev-
enth street, and when he arrived the
flames were shooting out of the upper
floors of the Andrews house and leaping
half way across the street. The police
man tried to arouse the occupants, but
turned in the alarm, and returning got
the people out of V. H. Rothschild's
house close by. While some firemen
fought the flames with hose and chem
house and from there into the Andrews
home by rear windows. They were too
late. In the middle room on the third
floor the firemen stumbled over the
bodies of Mrs. st. John and Wallace,
her 3-year-old child. The child was
dead, but Mrs. st. John was still gasp
ing for breath. The firemen staggered
with her to Rothschild's house, where
she died. Mrs. st. John, her three chill
dren and two servants, Kate Downing
and Maria Roth, were all on the third
floor.
Mr. st. John, who is treasurer of the
New York Steamheating company, and
brother in-law of Mr.. Andrews, was not
at home during the fire. Mr.. Andrews
and wife occupied the middle room on
the second floor. There, two hours later
their bodies were found charred almost
beyond recognition. The servants of
the Andrews family We're on the top
floor. Alice White, cook, leaped from
a window to an extension which rose to
the third floor She was found there
unconscious by firemen. Jennie Burns
jumped from the same window to the
extension. She crushed her skull and
died four hours later Mary Holland,
kitchen maid; Mary Flanagan, par
lor maid; Ann McNeary and Eva Peter
son, the four remaining servants, were
found dead on the fourth floor this
morning.
A strong wind blowing from the
south swept the flames north. On the
north side of Sixty-ninth street was the
handsome home of Albert j. Adams, a
millionaire sporting man. better known
as CAP Adams. His family had been
aroused by the tumult, and a servant
opened front window "A gust of wind
swept the fire in through the open win
dow. Then the Adams house began to
blaze fiercely. The inmates were panic
stricken. Nellie Quinn and Mamie Vo-
gle, servants, tried to rush down the
stairway, but that avenue was already
cut off. Two jumped to the roof Of
bay window story below. A policeman
and several citizens ran into the ad-
joining house and UP to the third floor
on level with the women. While the
citizens held the policeman he leaned
far out of the window, and lifting the
women up one at time swung them
up into the room They were carried
down to the street. In an hour the fire
in the Adams house was put out. The
firemen found the body of Mary Laugh
lin, go years old, at the bottom of the
stairs leading to the roof. She had
been smothered by smoke. Until almost
dawn the firemen fought the fire in the
Andrews house.
The fire in the Andrews house is said
to have started from an explosion pos
sibly or the igniting of leakage Of gas.
Of the injured Nellie Quinn, servant
and Alice White, cook, are in critical
condition.
ANDREWS BUSINESS.
Youngstown, o., April 7.--Wallace c.
Andrews was brother of the late
Chauncey s. Andrews Of this city. The
brothers were largely instrumental in
developing the iron and coal industries
of the Mahoning valley. Andrews was
born at Paynes Corners in 1888. In 1878
he went to New York. His wife was a
sister of G.. c. st. John, his private Sec
retary. He was an uncle Of Mrs. Edith