Providence, Rhode Island
Tenement
House Fire
January 3, 1899
Fatal Fire
Tenement House in Providence Having Eight
Families is Destroyed
Providence, R. I., Jan. 3 – A fire broke out
in the house 6 Lime Street early this morning
and before all the eight families who were
tenants in the house could be rescued
Frank
McDermott, 24 years of age, had received fatal
injuries from suffocation, and
Mr. And Mrs. John
O'Brien had been overcome. McDermott was sent to
the hospital, but died on the way, and Mrs.
O'Brien is in a serious condition. Mr. O'Brien
was sick in bed, and he with his wife were moved
to an adjoining house. The fire broke out at 2
o'clock.
The cause of the fire is unknown. It stared
[sic] in the attic in the front part of the
building, probably from a lamp.
Mr. McDermott,
who boarded with his aunt, was
overcome by the heavy fumes of the burning
woodwork and was with difficulty taken
from the building. In a short space of time the
fire was under control
The flames did not reach
McDermott, and, in
fact, none of the people in the house were
actually burned. It was the dense smoke which
brought about the fatality.
John O'Brien and Thomas Brophy, who took
McDermott out, were slightly burned.
The
financial loss is small.
Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth, NH 4 Jan 1899
Transcribed by
Ann.
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