At five o'clock yesterday morn., James GALLANT living near the Baptist Church on Brussells St. (St. John) discovered flames issuing from the rear of a house nearly opposite and running into the street he gave the alarm from box 14. ... An old man John BEATTEAY with his wife and daughter were in the attic of the lower house ... The daughter says that she was awakened by the noise of the fire and was nearly suffocated. She caught hold of her mother with one hand and her father with the other and was dragging both to the stairs when her father slipped from her grasp. She then went on with her mother and getting her to a place of safety, she was returning for her father, when she fell down and was thus found by George BAIRD of Co. 2 who carried her out doors. Her mother was rescued by BAIRD's brother... At the request of Beatteay's son, Wm REED and Mr. QUIGLEY ascended a ladder to the top story of the building where they found his lifeless body nearly doubled against the chimney ... The mother and daughter were removed to the hospital and not expected to live. At 4 o'clock Coroner Earle began an inquest. Evidences given by Wm REED, George BAIRD, John BEATTEAY, son of the deceased, John BOYCE (see original)