The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-21

New York, Especial. Ten lives we're lost
and seven people badly injured during fire
which almost totally destroyed a tenement
house at "a jackson street. The official list
OF the dead is,
William Cotter, forty years old.
Mrs. Kate Cotter, thirty eight years old.
Joseph Cotter. twelve years old.
Kate Cotter, nine years old.
Elsie Marion, six years old.
John Cotter, three years old.
William Cotter, one year old.
Louis Marion, forty years old.
Mary Marion, thrty-seven years old.
Mamie Cotter, thirteen years old.
The injured are:
Albert Marion, nineteen years old
Mamie Marion, eighteen years old.
Margaret Marion fourteen years old.
Frank Marion, twelve years old.
Emma Marion, two years old.
Antoinette Marion. infant
Patrick Burns, twenty-three years old.
OF these Burns will surely die, it is said
The others suffered from inhaling smoke,
but are not in serious condition.
The fire appears to have started in the rear
OF the hallway on the second floor It had
the house were awakened to their peril
The Cotter family lived on the fourth floor.
Cotter was laborer, and in addition to the
children who lost their lives he had 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 apprised
OF the fire. He was awakened by smoke
and he gave the alarm to the others in Miss
Jordan's apartments, where he boarded. All
escaped except Burns, who was severely IL
jured by flames.
Policeman Knowles, after assisting the
Hartigan family to escape from the third
floor OF the building, mounted 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
see no signs OF life there. The family had
moved into the rooms only 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 to climb the fire escape
till he reached the top floor. He heard
screams coming from the Mulhearn apart
ments and, locating them, assisted the dazed
people down the fire escapes.
When Officer Knowles reached the Marion
apartments a confusion OF flame and smoke
burst into his face. In the midst Of 1t all,
with nightgowns ablaze and their hair blaz-
ing, four of the children were tearing about
the room shrieking in terrible agony.
Mrs. Marion huddled near the window.
With her bare arms wrapped about her
baby, she was gasping for air.
Three rushes were made into the flames by
the faFrinad usln Eror a.
and Mamie were brought to Knowles after
he had taken the baby. The blisters and
scars were swelling on his hands and arms,
but he conquered his agony and finished his
work on the floor by finally carrying the
fainting form OF the courageous mother
down the fire escape
few moments afterward the woman
died. She had literally sacrificed herself
for her babies.
Louis Marion was killed by jumping from
a window. When the firemen reached the
apartments Of the family three OF the family
were dead on the floor and the others un-
conscious.
| In the Cotter rooms were found Mrs. Cot
ter, while few feet away lay the body oi
Mr. Cotter, with a dead child under him.
In other parts OF the rooms were found the
two Of them, Mamie and George, the latter
four months old, were alive.
Policeman Peter Purified, who had fol-
lowed the other officers TO the fire, had
reached the top of the Arst flight Of stairs
when Patrick Burns, one Of Miss Jordan's
boarders, with his night shirt ablaziug
jumped over the banisters within few feet
OF the officers. He fell in a heap at the hot.
tom OF the stairs. Purified carried him tc
the street and tore his blazing garment from
him. Burns was blackened all over by the
fire and appeared to be delirious. He ebroke
from the policeman crying, II want to save
my pants" and rushed back into the burn.
ing house. Purified overlook him and
brought him out again, and the man ther
sank from pain and exhaustion on the side
walk. Purified re-entered the house and
made his way to the rear Of the hallway Oh
the first floor. Just as he was about to &c
into the yard Marion jumped from the Hftl
floor and fell at his feet.
| Mamie Cotter died as soon as she arrived
at the hospital.
The monetary loss caused by the fire /.
estimated at from $4,000 to $1,000.