| Show t six lives were lost nearly a score of per sons injured and lives of a hundred endangered in an early morning tenement house fire in new york new york oct 17 six lives were lost nearly a score 0 were injured and the lives of more than a hundred others were endangered in an early morning tenement bouse fire in the section of brooklyn today with one exception all the dead are children and ot eight who were so badly hurt that they were removed to a hospital the oldest is a 14 year old girl incendiaries are thought to hare been responsible for the fatal alre and this theory is strengthened by the fad that while the firemen were at work on the blazo alaimo were turned in for two other fires in tho neighborhood the dead bella glass 0 years henry glass 2 years ida six years ben War kolsky 11 years gussio War kolsky charles ar kolsky twelve families comprising persons were asleep in the big five story double tenement house when the firmes were discovered when the alarm was through the house the men and women somo of the latter with babies in arms others with little boys and girls clinging to the night clothes of their mothers ran to tho hallway thero they wore met with great clouds of choking smoke while the alamea were rapidly closing in about them before the firemen arrived police reserves from a nearby station had rescued many persons from the massing building when the firemen came human lines were formed the escapes and the screaming women and children were lowered to tho pavement the flames burst from windows all about strem and tho clothes of many of them were burned from their bodies at mhd same time firemen with scaling ladders had reached the root and were carrying down to safety the frenzied women and children who had been driven from the blazing rooms many persons unable to reach cither root or alre escape were taken from windows through which the flames already were to pour tho five War kolsky children were found huddled in a blazing room by a fireman their night clothes were burning their hair burned from their heads and their bodies blistered they were taken to a hospital in a serious condit loUt their rescuers suffered severely from the smoke and heat A few moments later thred more children all of them unconscious were found in the upper part ot the building and carried out by the firemen As the rescuers rushed to the street three other firemen each bearing the dead body of a child came down the alro escape from the fifth floor the body of mrs glass was recovered soon afterwards while the fire was at its height fires were discovered in a hardware store in graham avenue and in a grand street tailor shop within a few blocks of the tenement house alre these were quickly subdued without serious loss if you want to vote you must register tomorrow ONE MORE NAME ADDED TO LIST OF DEAD new york oct 17 one name lias been added to the list of dead in the alre which gutted a anve story tenement at 15 moore street early today it was that of may delsel five years old and made tho total ot known dead alve the injured were mostly women and children including six members of ono family eleven are in a serious condition and it is likely many of them will die tharo were persons living in the building five fa millea on the top floor suffered the greatest loss scarcely a single cue escaping uninjured |
