| Show CATHOLIC T LIL P PRIEST Pt PERISHES I tS I IN fl FLAMES Thought He lIe Tried to Save Sarc Lives Of 01 Two Domestics Ics and Lost His llis Own On THEY WERE BOTH BURNED Fire Destroyed St Patricks Church And nd Adjoining Rectory Hector In Iti Long tong Island City CIt New Ness ew York March GOne One priest t and two servants were killed blued anti and two other priests were veto severely Injured In n II lire fire that destroyed St AI Patricks Homan floman Catholic church anti and tho time adjoining rec rectory rector rectory tory tor In Long Iong Ion Island l City today Those killed hilled were the He Father Ernest Kinest and Mary I r ant Brady domestics Those Thu o Injured are time the Ite Joseph and the He Father gall gail The money mone loss by b the tire lire was estimated nt lit 3 FilthIer Father 1 I is III believed to have lost his hili life lire while to trying Ing to save the two to ft omen The rectory was a n three story brick building build In with nn sti attic The rho two wo woo women men slept In the thu th attic tittle and the priests hull had apartments on the second and third floors The fire which started III In time tha connecting the tho church nail the rectory spread to both structure with wills great Krent rapidity and by tho the time the thc firemen reached time tile scene tho the whole rec tory ory ablaze lIther Father j Kearney Cearney mule his hlA way vay down Iowa stairs through the tite blind lug ng smoke and reaped escaped Into tho th street ile Ho wits wan n Injured about time the taco face lands hands having been cut and bruised rul while groping Ills his hl way wn through the rather Father who Is la the rector reNor of oC time the church waved saved himself by slidIng down u II plank which was wall raised ral cd to the time second story window by some workmen work mOil who vho ran to 10 the tho scene acetic to give 10 assistance His HIli hands were cut by b tho the augh edges of the plank plunk timid his legs loge were bruised brul oel Ho lie Is IA suffering stuttering severely from front shook shock and ami exposure Margaret and Mary Brady BrAd who are aro sisters sinters appeared at lit a n window of ot tho the attic little just nH as the tho first tire lire company ar arI dyed Ived I A 11 ladder was hoisted but It was too oo short to reach them und amid before a n longer lOMeI ono one could be le raised they timey fell tell back Into Inlo the flames 11 II Nothing has hAA been seen peen of ot Father and It Is believed he ho had tried to make makl his hla way to the to save the tho women and was wall over overcome oVercome come como by smoke before ho lie could teach reach then hem Ho Ito sas 27 years ears of ot age ng ageSt Ht St Patricks church was the Ih largest In n Long Island City |
