The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-03

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Heroic work q Flrsmsn and vol-
unteSr Rsscuet
NEW YORK. Jan. 2.-A little baby's
life was lOat and eleven persons were
injured ina nrs which destroyed q i've
story tenement in First ayenpe' short
~ after i o'clock this morning. Three
Of the injured may die. The dead child
is Loretta Leonard nix months old.
daughter Of EDWARD Leonard.
The following persona were injured:
Edward Leonard, hand severely
lacerated while sliding down q rope
from nth door to the street.
Mrs.. Margaret Leonard. his wife,
bruises and shock.
Nancy Leonard, fourteen years old,
Iaceration Of hands, caused by sliding
down rope to street
Thomas Leonard, twelve years old
unconscious from inhalation of smoke.
William Leonard, ten years DID, un-
conscious from inhaling smoke and
danes; condition critical,
Joseph Leonard, nine years old; UNI
conscious from inhallnG smoke and
flames.
Pauline Tischman and Philip Carroll,
Jumped from second story window and
missed life net; severe conclusions Of
body.
Nh. Kate Lane, face and hands
burned.
James Kelleber. hands and face
slightly burned while rescping q little
girl.
Rupert Glove, hands and face burn
ed, while attempting to rescue tenants.
The fire, which was one Of the tiercest
that the firemen have had to fight in q
tenement house for some time, is be-
Neyed to have started from Christi
mas tree on the hrst floor. Candles on
the tree had been lighted about mid
night and 1t Is supposed that some Of
these candles were overlooked and re-
mained lighted after they were thought
70 have been extinguished, and set the
tree ahre.
2 There were over nifty people sleeping
in the house when the IRE started. The
flames were pouring into the hallway
from the room in which the IRE started
when 1t was discovered.
When the alarm was spread through
the building, the frightened people att
tempted to get down the stairs, but
were driven back BY the smoke.
James Kelleher clasped his hands
over his mouth and succeeded in get
ting up the stairs to render assistance.
Rupert Glove, who made an attempt
to 60 to the rescue Of the tenants, was
driven back to the street by flames, se-
verely burned.
on the third floor Selleher found TIL
lie Powers, I'VE years old. The girl had
made her way down one flight Of stairs
and then fallen from exhaustion, Kel-
leher took her in his arms and placing
his hands over her eyes and mouth to
prevent her from lnhallng flames or be-
ing injured thereby. leaped down the
stairway and ran through the flaming
hallway to the street. HIS precaution
saved the child from injury. his own
hands receiving the burns she would
otherwise have suffered.
Meantime scenes Of terror and ex-
element were being enacted on every
floor Of the buring tenement. Instead
Of running to the rear Of the building
where the fire escape was, the inmates
of the house rushed to the front wins
dows and threw them open.
This gave impetus to the flames,
which were shooting up the air shaft,
and were showing twenty feet above
the roof, before any hremen had ar
rived. Mrs. Pauline Tlschman, an aged
woman, who lived on the second floor,
Jumped for the net which the flremen
spread, but missed It. She struck the
tagging, her right ankle being spralned
and her body severely bruised. She
had scarcely struck the walk before
Philip Carroll. at a window on the same
door. leap9d out. He, too. missed the
net Both his ankles were sprained
and be was badly bruised.
Meanwhile the flremen had raised
ladders to the windows on the nth
moor. where Edward Leonard lived
with his wife and six children. The
fremeR found Leonard struggling with
his wife 10 prevent her jumping WITS
her SIX months old babe, Loretta, from
the window. AS the iremen appeared
at the window Mrs. Leonard dropped
her baby to the floor. She was seized
by the firemen and taken down the lad
der in a faintlng condition. Leonard
slid down rope. followed by his four
teen year Old daughter. Nancy. and his
seventeen year old son. Edward. The
hands Of all three were cut to the bone
by the friction. The two boys, William,
eleven. and Joseph, nine, were found in
bed unconscious, locked in each others
arms. They had inhaled smoke and
were in critical condition.
The body Of Loretta, the little Leon
ard baby was found by the fremen at
ter the are bad been controlled, on the
door where It's mother had dropped 1t.
The child had been sufEocated.
The loss from the danes is estimated
ct $4,000.
Volcanic EruptlonS.