The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-01-06

| NEW YORK. Jan. G.-By the time the
hremen had extingulshed the destructive
/ fire in the tenement house. 305 East Nine
/ ty-second Street at O'Clock this morning
three persons were dead and four we're in
the hospital with critical injuries.
! The dead are.
Mary Southerly. forty years Old. a widow.
sunocated.
James Southeriy, twenty months old. son
Of Mrs souJherIy, also sufocated.
Frank Suotherly. nine years ola. a son OF
Mrs. Southeriy, burned to death, probably
after being overcome by smoke.
The bodies Of these we're taken TO the
East Eighty-eighth Street police station.
The injured are:
Harry SOutherly, five years old. son OF
Mrs Southerly, badly burned about hands.
feet, and body, and inhaled smoke, taken
70 me Presbyterian Hospital He viii
I probably die
haiaeilo PettiZO. thirty years cd. sprain-
Cd an ankle and cut wrist while rescuing
his family; token 70 the Presbyterian Hos
| piJaI.
Charles Stone. lieutenant OF engine corn-
p2ny -, ana Michael Dean. fireman of
engine company p. both overcome by
smoke. and taken TO the Presbyterian
Hospital
Firemen Michael Sullivan. Charles Nc
| Carthy. and Martin O'Leary. all OF enClre
company %. we're overcome by smoke FOR
time. but returned 70 their post before
the FIRE was under control. Fire Marshal
d Maligu0n declares his belief that the
/ holocaust was the work OF f-e-u-s
-Four fires were blazing in the ueighbo--
/ mood ot Ninety-secoud Street and Second
Avenue about the same time Marshal
d Malignon IS investigating each OF he
hTes closely. Tney we're ali Of unknown
( buE suspicious causes.
The FIRST blaze was seen soon after mid
night by William Zoaler, night watchunaa
al some unfinished buildings opposite.
When be got 10 the corner, a few yards
away, The b.aZe. which was barely noticea-
bic when he first saw it, had hared VI in
the lower halls Of the tenement so that
great sheet Of fame shot out with the roar
Of blast furnace. When the fremen came
they, too, ran through the building. They
say they pounded vigorously on the South
erlys' door on the fifth floor. but got no re-
spOuse and supposed the family had got
safely out
Fireman Evans found Ms Gordon a
tenant OF the fat, groping bIindly about o.
the nlJh nOCr with her three Children He
piloJed them down 10 the street. Fireman
Murtha helped Mrs LOmbardO and her four
children down the dre-escape from the
fourth floor without accident
After the FIRE was under control a search
OF the house was made in the hall on The
fifth floor Just outside the door Of their
rooms the Gremeu found Frank and little
Joe Sou-he-ly, huddIed up together, Frank
charred and burned fearfully. and Joe black
from suhocarion. Half across the thresh-
old. with her arms OUtstretched toward her
boys. lay Mrs SouthCrly where she had fall
len while trying TO push them out OF reach
OF the sudOcatiug fumes that had stran-
Sled all three She lay on her face half
shrOUded by her long hair the fingers OF
one hand touching the body OF her young
est boy. Down in the hail. on the third
foor, Policeman Frank found Harry South
erly unconscious He had been badly
burned about tee face, body. and arms and
had probably inhaled the flames