Show 0 TO DEATH live persons perish in the flames AT A fake IN NEW firemen could not the koom in time to hie nates NEW jan 31 during the early hours of today two fires occurred which resulted in the loss of many elivea many people were made homeless and even had narrow escapes for their lives the farea occurred in different parta of the chiy and one of them at least is believed to have been of incendiary origin the first fire started in the three story frame building at newark street there a mother and five dren lost their lives at the othar fire girl was burned to death dead nellie 40 years old wife of charles her children henry H kata 3 maggie 7 john 3 willie 3 months mabel mangles aba second fire was at fourteenth street it was there that mabel mangles perished her sister florence was seriously burned but is expected to recover it was about midnight when the fire was discovered in the ramshackle building at newark street several families lived in the building the lower floors of which were used as a blacksmith and carpenter shop te dera lived on the top floor charles schroeder Soh roeder who is a barkeeper out of work was not at home when r e started hie wife and children v re in their rooms it took but a c ment for the flames to ret complete c nirol of the building all but th schroeder family among the tenants managed to mabre their escape a number ot them getting to the ground from the windows after the firemen had was discovered that the schroeder family waa and eveia effort was made to reach the top of the blazing structure flames and amako brovo back and tint until the building was almost comi gutted tatt the firemen were able to get to the schroeder abart ments this was about an hour after the blaze began mrs Seh was anund lying on the bed which was partly with her infant on her breast two ot the other children chil dien lay on tho bed and one on the floor there was a flicker of life in the woman and she was quickly borne down to the stairway and through the still burning hall she died a few later the tour children all dead were brought down also but the body of the fifth could not be found by the then almost asphyxiated asphyxia ted rescuers an hour later however when the fire was almost extinguished a more thorough search was made and the body of the fitta child was found under the bed meanwhile schroeder himself who had been playing cards in a nearby saloon had appeared upon the scene but the calamity did not seem to affect him as much as had been hardly had the fira been put out than the men were compelled to hasten to fourteenth street where fire had got control of the building at no 1751 a few minutes after the outbreak the entire house was a mass ot flames and men women and children appeared at the windows in their night clothes and called frantically for help all except the family of henry G mangles on the top floor were got out in safety mantles his wife and family tried to escape by the stairway they were met by a of fl ame and driven back into their rooms eventually by the use of ladders all were taken out except the child mabel she had been lifted to the roof but on taking hold of the edge of the hole she found it hot and let go her graso she fell to the landing at the bead of the stairs and rolled down into the fire beneath one of the other caits chits dren waa severely burned |