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Show I . lelerHaiin. TERUIFIC TRAGEDY. tLtXCH FERSONS BURNED TO DEATH Draux of laic Is becoming famous for wagtdies .m which "tho heart-strings of bWMiiity ore Btraloctl," and people in 7 condition nnd Unto of life ure madu' ooutaers. Only ono short week since' Miiunity was placed iu mourning" by i we erthe oiot. lamoutoble cataslroiAys1 JtaUtcan fullio the lot of journulinf Mrtcordacutaiitrophc in which six hu-! man beingg ract their dcatli in an otnfit-in otnfit-in tba lock of a canal, In nil but the ?.B.,Cf.7( a prowdeO cltjr. Men, women,' MOchtWren wero beginning to forget thu i ltaSvln nd to look upon it us tvl wribie accidcut, when a more terrific I mutton became known to ererjbody in " fact that eleven liumon bcinjfs were, PMiIrely otul without exdSKeratiou, i "ted todeth in n !,, in tho very! ewter of thu city tn which theylircd, nnd Uxcs for presartins their lives and F"pertle$. f i i!f."4 ,,l001, t)eiufi death1 ?'1P1urtl6or service, iu one of the! f VhJ8u,Warvs of vty. comnnra-' W . "rtjr Pour of tLo "W't. 1 fact! 1 iiiPM w!t' terriblo force to all;1 4tE Pkl 'onBu nnnjtroui reasons wero os-f IW lll-!ttal dUaster, all came 1 yfcs'Jf0. V'lMiwlMdoD that the want iCtleBittWi't upi'lj' of water; W rJ0t7jr Uiornlng watt lugs" of fedmnteratlou. for tho infferer; o'ud, poliif it o'nt ni h cantlori to those wlio i Speculate, pit .th6 security ,pf. lifo iu . thls city, as they tell of the, sad fate of it whole family', i:e,of ;nboni wkVto Be married on the'dayihij met tcr featful death t 3lary (Anii itei)Iyr fine girl of ,18 year's of. xv.was to, have becit wethled yestcnlajr,. ller clmrrcd'nnd cindered ;ro-, ;ro-, raainj lio with those of liter poor mother, her sister Agries, and her brothers Jame, John'iiud' Jlatihcwj ort a heap of straw in nu ouihoiijo. of a litery stable In Cross JCetfn Strcct.)v I . JVloiig tli) streets a wretched nnd di. tressed lunnlsc WftV to, be seen, the father of that family, wandcrlnpfi last night, homeless nnd. friendless. The firo that consnmcd nil he loved was liuming In his dry and tearless eyes? and such was the greatness of.hlssorrrJw that ho wandered far and wlds amongst the awc-strickctt crowd, and none attempted to cflcr-blnt comfort llo was a brand from, the burning, burn-ing, and' many said he wonld hare suffered less had ,hd shared the fate of' hhf housed hold. II is sorrow was held sacred by all, and as he wandered, .as It were, In search of .thing ho.cauld notjiu, he excitedthe teari nrid tho heart sympathies or those whp sat lttro. But twjtnty.four hanrs bcfora this poor wan. was rich in the affec-,tlon affec-,tlon of all lies ipved but uow wife, sans, ijdaughtersalt were snatched from hirutn ;one ''felt swoop," and he stood as lonely it the front of his desolated and once jlmppy homo as'if lu? ncrer had kindred' of ;ft soul lit this wide world that he. could tjdvo and cherih? Arrangements wcrci ;being made for the marritigo bf his firstborn, first-born, atid he and her mother blessed her as, shei retired fo rest, and the poor old couple, pcrchancc.rouemlereiituo night before they were, wod, and the. young folk looked forward to a, gal UuyA and retired to their beds fuvcrislrwith thehope of ihc morrow's fotirltiiyl . lleitly, thai Is the name of the poor fcl-law( fcl-law( und. hit family were only part occupant occu-pant of the houHf, us w"vci ramilies; numbenng thiny.-two :iidridnals, lircd under the saiiiu rwT. All had retired to rest al .So, p l'atrick Street, on Saturday; night fires had been extinguished mid lights put vat, save Iu the fwu pair front, occupied by a mutt named Barker and W wife.. These ltcopltj urrtvtd home at about Uelvo Vclucfcj und, In a short time after, No. U falrids Btrt-et npieared at quiet and as uuworlhy of lurticular notice as any other hou&e in tlut deiitely-jwumiated neighborhood. The a'hup and ' fu wcr pru rinses were occniitl by ilessrs. Summer t Co , us a provision shop, and thu upper isectiuui were set in tenements to the tami llics of operative trudesmeii, At. tWchty-Uvtf minutes pait twelte o'clock yesterday mornlug, the fire was jdiieorercd by jmlice constable, and without with-out loss of tiuic they entered the burning premises ly the hall door. The second pair frout, hi which the hQ seems to have originated,, was enveloped. In flames, and could' nqt be approached, The terror and confusion within thu burning premies are more easily to bo fmugiucd, thmi described describ-ed llulf-uokcd Bolncii, aud.cliildrea half dclfrioits,justttWnkencd from their.slccp, were to bo seen rushing wildly through the smoke aud flume calling for tho absent; ab-sent; others ran Into the midst of the danger, dan-ger, iu their anxiety to escape, and amidst, the scene of horror and confusion amoiher was to bo observed coining out of the dense smoke blackened with goot, blister cd and bleeding, beurfng two of her children child-ren under her arms and one in her mouth!! Gafping nud fainting site fongbt her way to tho street where she fell exhausted with her precious charge. Barker, in whose room tho fire broke out, was next seen bearing out his three cbildren, one of them fearfully burned and mutilated j and as each poor creature, shivering shiv-ering and fentful issued to the street, a twrson would be led to suppose that the house on Arc was a lunatic asylum, and those who hud escaped had been its demented de-mented inmates. This opinion would be regarded us true If the random muster-rolls muster-rolls of tho missing, as they were called out bv distracted men and women, could bo heard amidst the roar of the flames through the c,rnckliug timbers and the sympathising shouts of "anxious but unavailing una-vailing Wurelcuco that sought to do every Ihiug, but nothing could be done. It now became known that the majority majori-ty of the iumatcj were within the burniog houc, and cut off by Walls offlnma from any assistance, The cry Was ''water! wnter" everywhere but not a drop was to be iud to save eleven of God's crcntures standing half naked iu front of the flames that, glutton-like, were licking up all before be-fore them. Every moment wub an hour of painful suspense, und us thu night stroller strol-ler uud Uie tavern Sybarite cuuiu up to gratify an idiociiriojiiy.jicople asked tiiiui Teheuicnily did they see the engines, coming. com-ing. These inquiries were answered in the negative, and moment a(:er moment a human lilo was sucnliced iu the burning lazar house. Flaine-hunted, a half dozen poor creatures rau for their lives to the roof of an adjoining house, where they crunched naked uud shivering iu the thin morning air, rendered more cold aud biting by the reeking atmosphere of smokp und flame from which they hud escaped. Before j theur was the lurid blazu which every iuo- merit gair.ed uiion their temporary refuge, . and as they gated with strained und wistful wist-ful eye on their upproaching and terrible death succour came to them through the agency of four men of the Policu Fire Brigude. They contrived by passing ladders lad-ders from I'luuket Street across the roofs of several houses, over which the brave fellows pussed with the agility of cats, to render help at the imminent risk of their own lives to the poor despairing creatures OH the roof. They rescued a. Mrs. Ji'G w ry oa3 ter tvb children from cert&Jb eSlpenS, ; f fly "quite out of bearing; a u 1 "' . J r , ' ' -, . " death, arid did hot tcate their w.drk until they, bdf9,ofT all ,the, poor 'expectants1 In safely. Jrotn. the roof. ITiese mch'nrto wot thy of the highest reward,, their 'iuperjofs of tho fmtnu'tiity'rean .bestow upon thenti TlnVflrst engine wn'51 hot'on the grba'nd uul.il half an lour after the fire waV dlsV covered, and the last wait, not rfrcscrif for nit honr and fifteen milmtcs subseqnc"tt to the alarm havfng-bcen giving. No, i Ore cseapo, arrived at IM and 011 biug placed agftiust tho walls Of the bujrnln house ft caught fire, and bad tb be rcraor cd without rendering ntiy rtsslstaricc. No; i firc-cscapo, camo , up nt 2.6p-jaiid was.jitafced agnjnst the adjoining' hodso to the .one on tire, Tho conductor got on tha roof, where he remained, for about ten tnirintcs, nnd returned by the .hall door of the tiuf nlng houscj without being able to rcatUthe cloven poor creatures who were iioiy pastall liumartnld, The water came elowly to life, cngiives, lmtvwheo t 4dld come it soon told, on the flanics, and got ihfern;cotnpIeleiy. under at a, btiarter'. past three o'clock. It was rnost, heartrending to see" those Wh,6 hdd J,9cntjed",fronj the burning fookjng for iho "mlssiriff members of thelr'faaillleswho'were now-ly ing.char-red ing.char-red and cindered In a smouldering, heap, iuidsf pools itf water, in which their red hot bonei were steaming. Ten 'human beings lay huddled to-gclhcr on the drawing-room floor as they" had' fallen when the ubper floor gave way. , ;ln all the. chapter? of horrors tbera was noth-, Irigmore horrible then' this. The flesh, contracted by the heat was torn Irom Its 1'1'ieo, aud hnng-ltt burned wafses on tho bhiekeued holies. Spldtebes of skin were, to be seen on portions of a face,- and a partially uninjured arm or leg contrasted horrible 'With the burned members adjota ing them, which, we're nothing more than musses ol dark, Wet ushe3. Trie bodies; or rather what remained of them, ,wrc ttlnveyed td Yorke'4 Livery Stables,, Cross Kevin; Street,, and wcru phued in im outhouse to. liwait.an Inquest. The deceased' werc-v.I'rs tteiliv and hur live t-htldfcn, namely, filtfry. Ailiie Reilly uged 18, the intended bride; Agnes Retily, uged H, lames, lMlly, aged 1C; John JU'illy, flged ?; Matthew ll'eilly aged 5: Johu At'Gurry, Bgtdt Rose M'Gvt'ry,, trgtd .3; Win. Forsytlic, aged 2; and :JanFrsythe, aged 4. ' Another iumatc of tha fnted bauMs ts .mUsifig, and tbere appears (q botio doubt tliat he hits' been ctn.sututd to asha, Thousands upon thousands visited the! scene, of. the diat?r jc.tertbjy, and . tho! tettihte calamity was spoken of with feel-,, bigs of awe and terror by then as theyf pajit'd the house within vhieh a few honrs' before one of the most terrific of horrors ! was enacted. Dultin J'rttman'i Journal, :Apritlfi. |