The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-08
A FA4ALPIRB In new YORK
Two Women Burned to Death and
Several Persons Injured.
One of Those Killed said to Have
Been Miss Mary Brown, of Wash
inEton Many Apartment House
Inmates Saved by fhc Life Net

In mates saved D[ the ELitS NEA
NEW YORK. May 6.-Two women,
Miss Mary Brown, of Washington, D.
G, and Mrs Jennie McSorley- We're
burned to death in a fire which started
in the apartment house at the south
west corner Of Lexington Avenue and
Sixtieth Street, shortly after midnight
this morning.
Several people were injured by jump
ing from windows and fre-escapes and
a score were saved by Ieaping into life
nets or by being carried down ladders
by the fremen.
One man and his wife, driven from
the fre-escape by the flames, jumped
from the fourth floor while fremen
were struggling to save them. Though
they fell with a crash on the sidewalk
While Clasped in each others arms, they
were not killed and viii probably re
cover
The work of the firemen was cheered
by hundreds of citizens who watched
the first actual tests Of the new life-net
and who saw the dremen bring scream
| ing women and frightened men down
! swaying ladders around which the
flames were whirIing. The fire-escapes
were filed with frightened tenants who
were unable to climb down because of
the fire and smoke and they could only
cling to them and await the raising of
the long ladders and the ascent of the
fiTemen. Several tenants were taken
from the windows as the flames cut oil
Z ? hi 70.
The building which was burned was
formerly known as the Hotel Del
Monte. but year or more ago it was
| turned into an apartment house, Occu-
pied by seven families The building
is a five-story, brown stone structure
a number Of stores occupy the ground
floor
The fire started in butter and egg
store candle used III testing eggs
and which was left lighted IS believed
to have started the flames.
The two women, who were burned 10
death, made no outcry. The crowd be
low saw the figure of one of them sill
houetted against a background Of fame
for an instant as she vainly tried to es-
cape by her window Nothing more
was seen of either of-them until the
fire was over and the fremen found the
two dead on their beds Miss Brown
boarded with Mrs. McSorIey- The in
ju1ed are:
Miss Eliza NJ Wolton, thirty-nine
years old. seriously Injured about the
neck and internally; taken to the Pres
! byterian Hospital Miss Wolton lived
/ IN Mrs McSorley's apartment on the
fifth floor from which she jumped.
Almond W Young, OF Chicago, inj9r-
! ed by jumping from the fourth floor 10
/ life net and take ! to the Presbyterian
Hospital
Mrs. Young, twenty-four years old.
also injured by jumping from the
fourth floor, and taken to the Presby-
terian Hospital
| James c. Conway. thirty-three years
old. Of 1923 Madison Avenue, injured
about TIE thighs by falling while trying
10 catch Miss Wolton. Conway was at
tended by an ambulance surgeon and
sent home.
I Miss Lucy BeauIieu. bruised while
/ being carried down the ladder.
James Sweeney, hair singed off
swerrey escaped from the apartments
in which the two women were burned
to death.
Patrick ROgan, fireman, was Sc
vereIy cut by falling glass