Fire In Dublin.
The Times, 1824-07-23T00:00:00

Alderman ICYvTOiOrEsRY held an inqntest yesterday (lUondaya 19th instant), at No. 19, Abbey-street, on the reinjins of Mary Kelly, a young iemale serv-nt, who fell a vietim to her hamuuaitv and medesty en the previous nigiLt. It appeared that the deceaseid lhadt lived int the family of Mlir. Higgs, corkLcut:er, at 19, Abb6y- stree' ant that the house took fire at about a quarter past twelve ,'doc o . Sunday niht. - She was at that time in bed with tvro, young children. The fire broke out in the under story, and, peodhlv communicated with the first floor, where a quantity of cork-wood was stored. The wlhole was quickly in a blaze, and all the regelar means of egre.s cut offby the flames. Thegirl, with great prescpce of mrind, caught the children in her arns, anti ran with them to the front drawing4room windows, out of which she threw ihom ta persons in tcne crowd, who had assembled in the street in front of the house. Thiey were received below, and escaped withoat the smallest injiiry. She also rendered prompt anti effectual as- sistance to the other in mates of the house, all of whom weresavrd. She *w as then pressed to think of het own safety, which she was told she might secutre by leaping from the window into the arms of some men below, wl.o waited to receive her; she was then wvithout covering. just as she had risen from bed on the first alarm * and, re- luctant to descend in that condition, and hoping to have tine to snatch something to wvrap about her, she, fatay, turned front the' window for a moment for chat purpose. She had scarcelv done *,s however, when, dreadful to relate, the floer own-hich she was stand- iog fell in with great suddenness, and she was precipitated inLto the burning mass below ! She is supposed to have thert made her :r v into the coa'uvalt, wvhich she probabl,y imagined would prove 5 place of safety, bitt where her body was found YesterJay momning but ned to a cinder. The juty, after hearing the evidence, zettareed a Yerdict of"'Accidental beath." 'rhe calaunity is understood to have been occnsioned by some clothes beingi put to air on a wooden horse, in the ki cher, too ne-r t1e tire. r They caught the blaze, and comnmunicated it to the floor above, where 'it spread rapiuly. The housSe was burned to she ground, and the adjoininlg oms very mutbch injured.-Dablia2 Pree. It was most pitiable to witness the distracted state of the mother of the deceased Mary Kelly, a very old woman, who wasto be seen anmid the crowd shriekihg and wvringing her hands. The body was found in an erect posture, half-consurmcd, in a back part of the house; the head had separated from it. Wh(i the fire broke oDt, it seems titere were nine persons in the house, namxely, M r. Hipgs (the owner), his wife, four children, two aporentices, and the ternale servant wose nneLaincholv fate we havs stated. T'he fire was first discovered hy an ublican in the neighbourhood, who gave the alarm by knoc;ing at tOe door: the proprietor of the L.ouse roused the other inmates from their beds. Ani apprentice,whosenanmewe urderstand is t11ichtacl !loey,i;nmediate1v it niped in his srirt from the front wia,dow. lie then procarcd a lamplighter's lvdder, ad,.d brought two of' tbe cti idren into the street. Al rs. Higgs afterwards g-t on tbe ladder, when it broke; her hasb3nd h;ndedi tiown the other'chlldren front thc wvindowi and then fbllowved himself, having. previously draggel the un.forturate servant.maid out of her bed. 1 is said slie appearetd at onie of the front windows witiout any clothing, and it is presumed that she returned back from motive, of delieaey to get some, and thus fell a victir'. The lituse vwas only one storv above the shop, wvith two windows in front on the roof. The owner of the house was c-,asidfretd in the neighbouubootl to be itn good Ibusiness. lehad effected insturatces on the hotse, stock. &cG, to the ameunt of LSOe1., wvith the P.oyal Irisi anoil National Insurance Companie".-Dnblin, jtorviong PiSt. l fRE IAl- 1DUINRv.