Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-01-11
FATAL FIRE IN A TENEMENT
i Occurred Early Saturday on East
a Ninety-second Street, New York.
THREE DEAD AND SEVEN INJURED
Mrs. Mary Sutherly and Two
81 Sons Perished.
FIVE FlREMEN OVERCOME BY SMOKE

New York, Jan. GA tenement fire
on East Ninety second street, early TO.
day, resulted iE three deaths and seven
persons being injured.
The dead are: MIS-. Mary Sutherly,
a widow; Frank Sutherly, 8 wears old.
and james Sutherly, % months old,
two of her sons.
The injured are: Harry Sutheriy.
Mrs. Sutherly's 8 years-oid bow. who
is in critical condition. Ranhaei
PjtiSzo, who saved q family from
burning, ankle sprained and arms chi
and bruised; Fire Lieut.. Charles
Stone, and Fireman Michael E. Dean.
Michael Sullivan, Charles Mccarthy
and Martin O'Leary, who were over.
come by gas and smoke.
The fire.. which started in the cellar.
had gained much headwsy before the
tirsmen arrived, because of another firp
in tho same district, on which tbey
were engaged at the time the tenement
fire was discovered.
policeman, who had entered the
house, did good work in getting the
tenants out. Harry Sutherly was found
lying IN the hallway on the second
floor. This boy had made his way from
his mothers rooms, on the TOP floor.
but could get no further, and had
fallen unconscious. The policeman
cnrried him TO the street, but he mad
inhaled flames, and at the hospital IL
was said that there was small chance
Of saving his life.
Meantime, scaling and extension
ladders were raised by the firemep.
and q number of women and childI en-,
who had collected on the fire ESCAPE
on the front of the building. we're
safely carried down. The firemep.
under Lieut.. Stone, who had run a
hose into the cellar, had been at work
there but a short time when one of
them staggered to the street, and fell
to- the sidewalk. A number Of firemep
ran in, and assisted their suffoca ted
comrades to. the street, where they
were attended by ambulance surgeons.
Raphael Pitizzo, who lived on the
third hoor, took his family of three
children down the rear fire escape to
the second floor, where he was cut of
by flames. While ciinging to the fire
escape, he was compelled to pass the
ohildien over 12-foot fence sur
mounted with spikes, which separated
the tenement from the adjoining house.
his arms were cut by the spikes; and
when be saw his children. all in safety,
he lost his nerve and fell, spraining
his ankle.
When the firemen were able to enter
the building, they found the body of
Mrs. ,Sutherly, lying on her face, with
her baby dead in her arms. A few feet
from hei, on the floor, lay the body of
her boy Frank. 1t was Eurned on one
side.
The damage to the tenants property
is estimated BY the police at s6, 500.
ANOTHER FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK.
New York, Jan. S.-Miss johanna
Lynch, 2S years old, who lived with
her btother-in law, George Wilson, in
q three-room apartment on Madison
street. was burned to death there early
today.
Aroused by the explosion Of a lamp,
which set fire to the place, Miss Lynch
had gotten safely out of the apartment,
carrying In her arms her 6-years-oId
nephew; but in the mistaken belief
that her sisters baby had been left
bohind, she went back into the rooms
in which the fire was raging. Over.
come as she searched. she fell to the
floor, and was burned to death.
All other members of the family had
gotten to the roof of the building in
safety.