The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-23
PEATS MANSION GUTIED.
$1OO,OOO RESIDENCE NEAR
 GREENWICH DESTROYED.
Little Daughter of Alfred Peats, the Owner, Probably Fatally Burned and Mrs. Peats SeriousIy-n1Rnsson Situ. Iy Occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.

Greenwich, June 22.-As a result of burns received in a fire in the mansion of Alfred Peats on Electric Hill tonight little Genevieve, the eight-year-old daughter of MT. Peats, will probably
 die and her mother, who was also se verely burned in an attempt to save the child, is in a serious condition. Mr. Peats, who has been an invalid for some time, was carried from the house by servants. The mansion, which was purchased six years ago for $lOOOOO, was burned to the ground.
 The fire was caused by the explosion of kerosene lamp. The electric lights, with which the house is usually lighted, were out of order and when Miss Genevieve was ready to retire for the night she carried lighted kerosene lamp to her room. In some unknown manner the lamp exploded and the flames quickly ignited the clothing of the child. Her screams aroused Mrs. Peats and she hurried to the room and made heroic effort to extinguish the flames which enveloped her daughter. She was so absorbed in her work that her own clothing was mass of flames before she was aware of the fact. It was not until servants, attracted by the cries of Mrs. Peats and her child, ar rived on the scene that the flames which enveloped the two were smoth- cred. They did not arrive, however, until Miss Genevieve was so badly burned that her recovery is doubtful. The child's mother, suffering severely from the burns she herself received and almost prostrated because of her child's fate, is in a serious condition.
 In their efforts to save Mrs. Peats and her daughter the servants neglect ed to telephone to the Greenwich fire department, three miles away. and the upper part of the house was soon burn ing fiercely. Mrs. Peats and Genevieve were removed to the home of William C. Johnston near by and the servants turned their attention to the removal of MT. Peats. He was also taken to MT. Johnston's house and a physician was called in to take care of the two suffer- CTS.
 The fire department was then sum- moned, but when it arrived it was dis covered that there were no l1ydrants to which the firemen could attach their hose, and they turned their attention to saving the furniture on the first floor of the building. Electric Hill is the high est point of land between New York and Boston, and this made the forma- tion of bucket brigade impossible, and the steep hill was also the cause of con- siderable delay in the arrival of the fire department.
 With the exception of two pianos nearly everything of value was remov- ed from the first floor, but the flames soon became so hot that further work in this direction was impossible and the firemen were obliged to stand aside and see the mansion burn to the ground A number of neighbors of MT. and Mrs. Peats hurried to the scene to offer their homes as a temporary residence, but MT. Johnston and his wife had already provided for the unfortunate family in this respect.
 MT. Peats bought the mansion, which was known as Alta Crest, six years ago at a cost of $100,0O0 The furnishings which were destroyed will bring the loss up to nearly $150G00. The building was formerly occupied by Andrew Car negie and his wife, and it was in this building that his daughter was born.