The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-31
FROM FIERY DEATH
A MANGLNG LEAP
Priests Building at Nazareth Quilted by Fire and
Three Jump From Roof Forty-FWe Feet
to Ground Below.

in the smoke and fire, and safety
was sought by fearful jumps from
second and third story windows. It
was not until those on the lower floor
were out that the men on the sloping
roof of the brick building were dis
| covered. and despite every effort to
aid them they had to leap. 1t was
an awful sight as the bodies dashed
through the air and lay helpless and
mangled on the ground below
About were the younger students and
nuns, while young men from the A.
and M. College had come to assist il
possible
The Raleigh Fire Department sent
out the Rescue hose wagon, with lad
ders and chemical fire extinguishers
but these came too late to be of help
as the big fire in Raleigh had kept
the fire department busy. In the
party that went were Fire Chief Mag
mum, Assistant Chief Fred Mailer,
Mr.. E. B. Balm of the Water Works
Company Mr.. Capers White and the
paid men of the Rescue Company.
These, with others from Raleigh, rem
dered all the assistance possible.
The building destroyed was COM
pleted about five years ago, and was
brick building four stories high, be-
ing used as the residence of a num-
Der of the priests and the more ma
ture of the young men at Nazareth
Orphanage. a boys orphanage sup
ported by the Catholics of North
Carolina. The fire is supposed to
have started near the library on the
second floor, this from a defective
flue. The money loss is estimated at
about $4,000, the building being
valued at $4,000 to $4,000 and the
furniture at from $4,000 to $4,000.
In the building were all the effects
used in publishing Truth" a maya
zine valued at about $4,000, the
papers and mailing list of this, and
of an orphans paper being also de-
stroyed. All the medicine for the
orphanage was kept in this building
and all of this was lost, as the loss
of all the property in the building is
entire, nothing being saved and only
There is some fire insurance, but the
amount is not large.
Nazareth Orphanage is situated two
and a half miles to the west of Raj
eigh and is an institution, for boys.
There are now there some seventy
here people, these being priests,
nuns, young men preparing for the
ministry and orphan boys. The build
ings of which there is one other be-
sides the church, are situated on a
beautiful eminence, this overlooking
the city of Raleigh. The institution
is the pride of the Catholics of North
Carolina and this heavy loss of prop
erty will come as terrible blow.
while the terrible injuries suffered.
as we'll as the possibility of death to
come, will carry grief to many hearts.
The Hero of the Night
Since the foregoing was written
other information has been obtained
of the terrible affair. Timothy Wal
lace, of New York, proves to be the
hero of the fire. He had escaped
from the building and seeing that two
boys were on the fourth story he
climbed the buttresses of the build
ing to aid them and was not able to
return Then it was that he jumped
with the boys from the roof to which
they had climbed. mattresses being
used to catch the bodies. Wallace
has a right ankle broken and a left
foot crushed. John Gladish, in adj
dition to his other injuries, is badly
burned.
At half-past 5 o'clock this morning
a telephone message from Nazareth
says that all the injured are doing
well and that without present know
ledge of internal complications all
may yet live. This is gratifying in
view of the terrible leap that was
taken.