Show DREADFUL DETAILS of the fatal conflagration of the brooklyn orphan asylum by n w tarn asad press I 1 r ibe she mei 11 eald ald KEW new december 19 brook lyns latest h horrors hor 0 roris another evidence of the sad truth that no amount of good intention can atone for the lack of proper precaution and vigilance hundreds of children in the asylum were tenderly protected a against g a A all harm except that which co could ul d have been the most easily guarded against ore fire there was a very er largo large water hydrant in the yard w with yah four butts butt but hero there was no hoss hose about the building bra oiny ny other mca means i ns to extinguish fire so what began as a trivial accident ended in an awful awful 1 tragedy at the time themire the fire began the I 1 larger irger boys in the institution wore were employed in the courtyard making elides slides on the newly fallen enow snow or snowballing it was visiting day and n d many parents of children had I 1 ad come to see them about twenty five flye children wore were inthe in the infirmary on the second floor under the care of sister anthony their little avau wa U faces were peering at the windows windom 9 it is absolutely impossible to tell wh where ere the inin inmate tel of the institution can be found I 1 id d the station houses car stables and private homes the waits found shelter late this afternoon a list of children was wag made up and were unaccounted for while mile itlay turn out thai that not one of these is is among the ruins the fact remains that tolia of burned timber warped iron and fAl fallen leif bricks which have not yet been removed m may entomb many more corp corpses ses than have ve been recovered th the home have save hired a force of men to continue the search until jt it is settled beyond question thai that there are no more inore bodies in the wreck of the building in the room of the saved portion of the asylum proper are the bodies of those who have been found they are tied up in sheets any effort to identify them would bo be perfectly useless in in that room is the only story of loss of life so far fair as known it is also now known that the little litt lepa pas were ao ijo situated as to be almost completely cut off from escape and the flames ate site rapidly upward thus preventing egress by the lower parts of the hou house e eddie maurath Mu Urath rath one of the kitchen boys 12 years of age was going in to wash cups when the fire broke out ont lie ran on and saved liis his little 7 year ola brother who was nn on the second floor speaking to a union reporter mcgah ald there were seven boys in uio infirmary on the third floor flo or afflicted with sore eyes and about 23 sick ick with malarial fever lie ile said seven aeto unable to leave their beds and suggested tho the probability that they were the first victims vic titus the children were received at the home on various conditions most of them were orphans and half orphans in addition to these a few bad had been committed by the police magistrates when their parents were cither either incapable or unwilling lo 10 properly rare are fort for them heni the boys forming the last named class were in greater part un uns willing inmates and these it is believed compose mainly tile missing one hundred and twenty three having been set free by the fire they prefer to remain at large identity of the remains of the woman found in the ruins may bo be helped by the statement of sister ve ronica she eaid paid 1 I let tw two 0 visitors into the infirmary who went upstairs they were airs mrs mccarron and mrs malloran Ual loran I 1 think they got out bull buti am not eure sure she continued there were not more than 12 chil children drenon ion the upper floor of the infirmary cheh the fire broke out this place was used for a dispensary w here the child childrens teas ailments were treated and were not for occupancy except at such periods sister veronica was in the infirmary when the fire was discovered she aard it seemed to originate ansome in some dish towels that hung on the ho haack arack ack sister clementina was FELS there thil e top and ran upstairs td get jet water to throw on oh the flames she pot back the firo fire bad had gained such headway that it was useless to try to check it and their efforts were directed to paving raving the children mrs fee feeney ney who ia is a la undress in ahe institution was found in n the farm house of the asylum at it thelast the east end of tha grounds and from frow her statement there seem no doubt the firt fire originated in tho engine room which was in in the basement annex 1 I was wa in in the laundry said isaid mra feeney with Sister clementina and the as BIB distant tant lati la undress whose whoso name I 1 do d not know it was M recitation hour and I 1 was making some remark to t sister clementina about the boya boys ir in tub yard when suddenly I 1 saw a flame in the drying press priss I 1 turned and saw the towels were ina in a blare blaze a and d before we could hardly move tin the place lace was in a blaze there mua must eave have been at least thirty five boya boys in h up P r s care of feister sister A mary ry A anthony 1 h ony I 1 cabi an not imagine how many got out mrs feeney was prevented from making Jakin gany any further statement by a sister who drew her aEl Jeand v warned her iser not ta talk the dead recovered until a late hour this afternoon numbered thirteen it is said worth wirt of statues have been caved saved with a picture of mother baptists Batis ts who died two years cars ago this constituted about all in tho the building not burned flie walls alla of one wing of the asylum having been bated tho the pecuniary loss will be as heavy as ai first reported total insurance the Tho coroner today to ta day Im paneled a jury and then adjourned the inquest |