Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-02
FROM A CHRISTMAS TREE.
One Person Dead and Eleven Injured by a
Tenement House Fire.
Three Of the Injured MaJ Die-seenes
Of Terror-Heroism OF Hescuers
Fire Ragged Fiercely.

New York. Jan. IA baby's life was
lost and eleven persons were injured in
fire which destroyed a five story tene-
ment In First avenue shortly after
o'clock this morning, Three of the in.
jured may die. The dead child d. hor.s
eta Leonard, six months old, daughter
OF Edward Leonard.
The injured are:
Edward Leonard, hand lacerated
while sliding down rope from nth
floor to the street
Mrs. Edward Leonard, bruised.
Nancy Leonard, IA years old, lacera-
ton Of hands, caused by sliding down
rope to street.
Thomas Leonard, 70 years old, inhaled
smoke, unconscious.
William Leonard, 10 years old, Inhaled
smoke and flames. condition critical.
Joseph Leonard, 9 years old. uncon-
scious from inhaling smoke and flames.
Pauline Tischman and Philip Carroll.
jumped from second story window and
missed life net. Severe contuslons Of
body
Mrs. Kate Lane, face and hands
burned
Jas. Keleher, hands and face burned
while attempting to rescue tenants.
Inc IRE, which was one OF the fer
cest that the firemen have had to fight In
a tenement house for some time is
believed TO have started from a Christ
mas tree on the first floor. Candies had
been lighted about midnight and It Is
supposed that some Of them We're not
exlingushed. There We're 50 people
asleep IN the house when the fire start
ed.
The flames were pouring into the hall
way when discovered. When the alarm
was spread throughout the building the
frightened people attempted to get
down stairs but were driven back by
the smoke. James Keleher clasped his
hands over his mouth and succeeded
III settlhs UP the stairs TO render as
sistance.
Rupert Glove. who made an attempt
10 go to the rescue OF the tenants. was
driven back by flames and severely
burned.
On the third floor Kelleher found Til
lie Flowers. years old. The girl had
made her way down one flight Of stairs
and then fallen from exhaustion. KEEL
leher took her in his arms. and placing
his hands over her eyes and mouth TO
prevent her from lnhalng flames. leaped
down the stairway and ran through the
flaming hallway 20 the street. His pre-.
caution saved the child from injury, his
own hands receiving the burns she
would otherwise have suffered.
Meantime scenes Of terror were being
enacted on every floor Of the burning
tenement.
The fire escape was at the rear of the
building, but the inmates rushed 10 the
front windows and threw them open.
This gave impetus 10 the flames. which
were shooting up the airshafi, and were
showing twenty feet above the roof be-
fore any firemen had arrived. Mrs.
Pauline Tischman, an aged woman
who lived on the second floor Jumped
for the net which the flremen spread
but missed H. She struck the tagging
and was severely bruised
Philip Carroll, at a window on the
same floor, leaped out, and also missed
the net and was badly bruised. Mean
while the firemen had raised ladders 90
the windows on the fifth floor, where
Edward Leonard lived with his wife
and six children. The firemen found
Leonard struggling with his wife 10 pre-
vent her jumping with her elk months
old baby from the window. As the fire.
men appeared at the window, Mrs. Leon
ard dropped her baby to the floor. She
was carried down the ladder In faint |
Ing condition. Leonard went down a
rope, followed by his l4-year-old !
daughter Nancy and his l7-year-old son |
Edward. The hands OF all three were
cut TO the bone by the friction.
The two boys, William. II, and Joseph. |
2. We're found In bed unconscious. |
locked In each other's arms They had |
Inhaled smoke aud were In a critical |
condition.
The body OF the Leonard baby was |
found after the fire had been controlled. |
on the floor where i,s mother had |
dropped II. The child had been suffo-
Gated.
The loss from the flames 10 estimated
at about Sl6O0Q