Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-15
NOW SEVENTEEN VICTIMS.
New York Tenement Disaster Worse Than
First Reported
Ten Dead, One More VIII Die, Six
Others Injured Brave work
OF the Hescuers

New York, June 15-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 today. The official list
Of the dead is:
VIM Cotter 40 years old Mrs. Kate
Cotter IS, Mamie Cotter, ls. jos Cot
ter 70; Kate Cotter, 3; John Cotter, g.
James Cotter, !, Louis Marion, 4O
Mary Marion, 81; Elsie Marion, 6.
The injured are, Mamie Marion, Is
years old; Margaret Marion, H. Frank
Marion, 80; - Marion, girl 2. A boy
baby ten months, supposed TO be Of
Mulhearn family, Patrick Burns, %;
unknown boy, H.
OF the injured. Burns will surely die
Il is said. The others suffered from in
haling smoke but are In a serious con-
dition.
The fire appears 10 have started In
the rear Of the hallway on the second
floor. II had gained great Roadway be-
fore the people Ia the house We're awak-
eued 90 their peril. The Cotter family
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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 10 learn
OF the fire. He was awakened by
smoke and gave the alarm 20 the 9TH
ers In Miss Mary Jordans apartments,
where he boarded All escaped except
Burns. who was severely Injured by the
flames
Policeman Knowles after assisting
the Hartigan family 10 escape from the
third floor Of the building. mounted one
OF the flight higher. Flames shot out
Of the windows and set fire TO his coat.
He looked into the windows Of the Cot
ter apartments but could see no signs
OF life there. The family 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
obstructed. The brave policeman. half
suffocated by the smoke. continued 20
climb the FIRE escape I'll he reached the
top floor He heard screams coming
from the Mulhearn apartments and To-
eating them assisted the dazed people
down the fire escapes.
When officer Knowles reached the
Marion apartments, confusion Of
flame and smoke burst mo his face. In
the midst of II ALL with night gowns
ablaze. and their hair blazing, four OF
the children were tearing about the
room shrioklng 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 terrified woman, and
Margtry. Frank and Mamie were
brought 20 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 form OF the courageous mother
down the fire escape.
A few moments later the woman
died. She had literally sacrificed her
self for her babies.
Louis Marion was killed by jumping
from a window. When the fremen
reached the apartments Of the family,
three Of the family were dead on the
hooor and the others unconscious.
In the COtter rooms We're found Mrs.
Cotter. while a few feet away lay the
body Of Mir. C0tter with a dead child
under him. In other parts Of the room
were found the remaining members OF
the family only two OF them. Mamie
and George. the latter four months old,
were alive.
Policeman Peter Purified. who had
followed the other officers 20 the fire.
had reached the top OF the first flight
Of stairs when Patrick Burns, one OF
Miss Jordan's boarders. with his night
shirt blazing, jumped over the hanls-
tiers within a few feet OF the officers
He fell IN a heap at the bottom Of the
stairs. Purified carried him TO the |
street and tore his blazing garment |
from him. Burns was blackened All |
over by the fire and appeared 10 be de- |
llrious He broke from the policeman |
crying u want 20 save my pants" and /
rushed back into the burning house. |
Purified overlook him and brought him /
out again and the man then sank from /
pain and exhaustion on the sidewalk
Purified re-entered the house and |
made his way to the rear Of the hallway /
on the first floor. Just as he was about |