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King’s, he moment 1, under the3 bridge, onand the en-SENSATIONAL BLAZE.Fir* in a Sew York Flat Causes Great Ei*. eitement, but Slight Damage, ,Special to the Commercial Gazette.New York, September 7.—Flames were discovered breaking through the roof of the rowof handsome brick and gray stone buildingsit3 an area of he midst of igand send-light pine ?d on theirried over bad begun a small er, and be-less of the 1 the flames |cfi stream je lanes or iniDossiblely but the ns of the started wasin from thet would not it was so in-beyond the tontrol. By itd 4, andjfttne larger, and less ef-s time some st complete-froin burn-cted against » wet down, iu fort, rue impassa-i going by ces could athe Varietvknown as the Stuyvesant Flats, on EighteenthThe flatsstreet, at 4:30 o’clock this morning, are four stpries high, and each floor contains three complete suites of rooms leading into a common hall. The first house in the row wasoccupied by the millinery store of Airs. W. H. Wynne, who lived on th% top floor with herfamily.; Li * I ^ ^ A 1 * • * '■ | - mn..The second floor was occupied by Airs. Geo.A. Custer, widow of the late General Custer, with her sister, Airs. Afargaret Custer Calhoun, widow of Lieutenant CaHioun, who was killed in the same battle in which General Custer losthis life. Airs. Custer was awakened by herservant, Alary Lynch, whose room adjoined the light shaft through which the flames were roaring to the roof. Hastily arousing her sister, Airs. Custer fled to the stairs, and to her cries of alarm tnany of tlie occupants owetheir escape from the building. Mr. AlcOann was aroused by Airs. Cutter and Airs. Calhoun, and gave the key of a neighboring alarm box to Geo. Greene, one of his assistants, who sentis an alarm* j ■ i *- ••In the meantime the greatest consternation reigned in the burning flat and the adjoining buildings. Lightly clad and barefooted women and excited men, in their night shirts, ran out of the building into the street, not knowingwhere the lire was burning,—one man clambered over the roof in hi* night-shirt, with histrowsers over his arms;\another darted out with his arms filled with prized household goods, in the same airy costume,—and gathered in knob* on the sidewklk, dazed and confused. The lire was burning at its fiercest on the topfloor, in the apartments of the Wynnes, in which were sleeping at the time of the outbreak of the fire Mr. W’ynne, bis wife, their two children, aged respectfully two and nine yeais, Aliss Lena Cahill, a visitor, and Elien Dunn, their servant. Ellen was the first to discover the fire, and her screams aroused the familyw* . : vThe fire was then blazing through the dumb waiter and air shaft windows into the private hallway, and presented a furnace-like barrier to the family. Mr. Wvnne, with his two children in his arrns, and followed by his wife, dashed underneath the mass of flames that came in through the window's, and made for the flight of stairs leading to the roof.The department responded quickly to the alarm, and the fire was extinguished without great difficulty. The losses were not more than $5,000 in all. , I] .. [ “ . ’ ' [ [When Mrs. Custer returned to her apartments, which are filled with many souvenirs of her husband, Including, two handsome busts and the Mexican pouches which the General used in his campaign, she missed her cket-book. ‘‘There was very little money n it,” Airs. Custer said afterward, “but what we regret most is a gold watch belonging to Airs. Calhoun. It was a gentleman’s watch,and belonged to her brother. Captain Tom Custer. He gave it to her before nc went onhis last campaign.”The same engine companies which responded on the first amrm at the St. George flat fire,during which Miss Kate Forsyth was robbed of her diamonds, assisted in extinguishing theflames at the Stuyvesanti4: j -Pensacola, September 7,—The Molino lumber mills, twenty-three miles from Pensacola, burned to-day. They belong to the estate of D. F. Sullivan, except one-quarter willed by Sullivan to M. L. Davis. The latter had $t0.u00 insurance. There was no other insurance. The loss is about 8100,000. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad furnished a special to carry a steam iinrengine to save millions of feet of lumber stacked in the vard.’s lucky for him that 8b wratch over his life until hanj It wouldn’t do for him to t grating and curse a Woodsto has done here to-night, With little Ella Watson fresh upo had better be careful; it is some one to finish him. Sal shoot true.’ *Notwithstanding all this t nothing more than to walk a ‘‘On the 25th of August, after the murder had been cutor Slope, after the consul Plummer, decided to emplo tective Agency to ferret out Coles and Detective Wm.had t.heu secured considerablSullivan. Both officials w To Carney belongs the cr cured Sullivan’s knife, w nicks in its blade, aud wh operative took hold of thlt; where the local Vidocq had no more clues to work upon ton man, under instruct! Linden, adopted an enti action. While Sullivan wa dow’n in his lonely cell he w strangers, who sympathized when about to leave, casuail would be well for bim to sec negro, ignorant as he is, grastion eagerly.‘‘On the next day he was well-spoken gentleman, win out any hope of mitigatio heard with apparent inctiffe the crime. Sullivan told of village of Yorktown from Jlt; ning factory with Wm. t lated with great attention to emotions that agitated himWatson tripping along th basket full of poultry, h Elwell’s store and start on h ney, and then lecherous th ing through his brutish brai made up quickly. Quitting sneaked through the corn railroad, and emerging aboc the village. Crossing the wagon road, he made his w brush, and cut the chestni concealing himself in the br for his victim. When Ella wfhere he was concealed he s of her. She started to run 1 her mind ran forward. S club and struck her on head. She pitched forwa then the negrp attempted to the struggle that followed, I he was recognized. Alar me of discovery and punishmei sesses moral sense—he drew weapon supposed to be the per, and struck her in the fc ‘‘Then the body, still wrii the bru-ih. With the idea o der look like one committed robbery, or excited by cupi little store of silver from th kerchief, and then throwing bit of linen into the bush* home. There he changed hi; shirt and coat, and realizing called upon to account for h to Yorktown and bought i part of the murdered girl’s i ‘‘This was the story pot gentleman’s ears. Had any gentleman he would have train for Philadelphia and p the Pinkerton Detective Ae later the inhabitants of handbills about the town ca of a negro said to be wante for murder. A very com pic given, and when a coloredCREAMERY BURNED BY AN INCENDIARY.Special to the Commercial Gazette.f TN■kaexactly appeared, he was sc over to Sheriff’ Coles. The jin the same cell with Sullivj “Inside of forty-eight hou crime was repeated to the “Yesterday morning a 1 eyed man walked into Sheri an order from Prosecutor 81 release of the prisoner arre and the nair walked out toi
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 08, 1884
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