People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK.

, oh'i Kurtz aid Tony Ketefauaa Are the Victim*. New' York, March 20. —Two men lost their lives in a fire which broke out at 2:45 o’clock this morning in the fourstory flat, building 168 West 25th street. The dead men are: John Kurtz, Tony Ketchum. Kurtz was proprietor of the Chimney Corner saloon, 6th avenue and 26th street, and was burned to death while trying to save the members of his family.. Ketchum was an insurance agent and jumped from the third-story window. He was so badly injured that he died an hour later. Five others who jumped escaped without serious injuries. Miss R. Scamp was severely burned about the neck and shoulder by attempting to descend by a ladder from the third story. She fell, but was caught in a net and escaped without serious injury. When the fire was extinguished the dead body of Kurtz was found in the hall. The loss by the fire is about $4,000.