Santa Fe Daily New Mexican

FOUR PERISHED.
A Disastrous Blaze in Which Four Children Lose Their Lives.

Nyack, N. Y., Oct. 22.-Four grandchildren of the Rev. William Taylor, a Methodist missionary and bishop of Africa, perished in a fire at the elegant house of their father, Ross Taylor, in South Nyack early to-day, and in addition one man was so badly burned that he can scarcely recover and two others are seriously injured.

It was a little after 4 o'clock when Mrs. Taylor was awakened by the smell of smoke. She aroused her husband, Rev. Ross Taylor. He found the halls filled with smoke. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor groped through the suffocating smoke to get to open air without having been able to extend a helping hand to their six children and others of the household. As Mr. and Mrs. Taylor emerged from the building the fire department arrived. The energies of all were directed toward the rescue of those who still remained in the doomed structure. The two eldest Taylor children, Stewart and William, were aroused in time and jumping from the window of their chamber were caught without being seriously injured. Harriet, aged 11; Ada, aged 9; Arthur, aged 6, and Schultz, aged 5, perished. Their bodies were recovered three hours later by Michael Mulady, a laborer.