The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-06-19
IN A tenement HOUSE
Ten Lives Lost and Seven People
Injured in a New York Fire.
Brave Efforts Made by the Police
men to Rescue the Families
A Mothers Sacrifice for
Her Babies.

New York, June 16.-Ten lives were
lost and seven people badly injured
during a fire which almost totally de-
stroyed a tenement house at "a Jack
son street early Friday morning.
The official list of the dead is: VIII
liam Cotter, 40 years old; Mrs. Kate
COtter, 50; Mamie Cotter, 13; Joseph
COtter, -; Kate Cotter, 9; John Cot
ter, 3; William Cotter, 1; Louis Ma
rion, 40; Mary Marion, 81; Elsie Ma
riOn, e.
The fire appears to have started in
the rear of the hallway on the second
floor. 1t had gained great Roadway
before the people in the house were
awakened to their peril.
The Cotter family lived on the
fourth floor. Cotter was a labOrer,
and, in addition to the children who
lost their lives, he had a son, George,
four months old.
The Marion family lived on the top
floor. Patrick Burns appears to have
been the first person in the house
who was appraised Uf the fire. He was
awakened by smoke and he gave the
alarm to others in Miss Mary Jor-
dams apartments, where he boarded.
All escaped except Burns, who was
severely injured by flames.
Policeman Knowles, after assisting
the Hartigan family to escape from
the third floor of the building, mount
eel one flight higher. Flames shot out
of the windows and set fire to his
coat. He looked into the windows of
the COtter apartments, but could not
see any signs of life there. The fam
lily had moved into the rooms only
a few days before, and the furniture
was so banked up in front of the
windows that the view was obscured.
The brave policeman, half suffocated
by the smoke, continued tc climb the
fire escape till he reached the top floor.
He heard screams coming from the
Mulhearn apartments, and locating
them, assisted the dazed people down
the fire escapes.
Louis Marion was killed by jump
ing from a window. When the fire.
men reached the apartment of the
family three of them were dead on
the floor and the others unconscious.
In the COtter rooms were found
Mrs. Cotter, while a few feet away
lay the body of Mr.. COtter, with a
dead child under him. In other parts
of the rooms were found the remain
ing members of the family. Only two
of them, Mamie and George, the lat
ter months old, were alive.
When Officer Knowles reached the
Marion apartments a confusion of
flame and smoke burst into his face.
In the midst of it all, with night
gowns ablaze and their hair blazing,
four of the children wre tearing about
the room shrieking in terrible agony.
Mrs. Marion huddled near the win
dow. With her bare arms wrapped
about her baby, she was gasping for
air.
Three rushes were made into the
flames by the terrified woman,
and Margory, Frank and Mamie were
brought TO Knowles after he had TAX
en- the baby. The blisters and scars
were swelling on his hands and arms,
but he conquered his agony and fin
ished his WORK on the floor by finally
carrying the fainting form of the
courageous mother down the fire es-
cape.
A few moments afterward the wOm-
an died; she had literally sacrificed
herself for her babies.