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Show yjyj IN j Hi Chicago Tenement House the Scene of Incendiary Blaze Chicago, Sept. 25. Four persona wero killed and a score Injured today when fire broke out In a double four- j story brick tenement house at 133G South Sangamon street. The dead are: Harry Eglovitch, his 'ife and Infant In-fant daughter and Samuof Alport. All wore burned and suffocated". The fire, which Is believed by tho police to have been of incendiary ori' gin, started in the basement and rap-Idly rap-Idly spread to the upper floors occupied occu-pied by eleven families. Excitement followed tho discovery of the flames and dozens of women and children wero rescued with difficulty. dif-ficulty. Two babies were thrown -from an upper window by tholr frantic fran-tic mothers and woro caught In tho arms of pedestrians. -v. . J -' 0"nc"womnTi'wTior,llvocr on the top floor weighed 354 .pounds apd was carried downstairs by her husband and four firemen, after several unsuccessful un-successful attempts had Jbeon made to rescue her by means of n, ladder. Diamond Brodsky, a 12-year-old boy. who lived on the first floor of one of the buildings, discovered tho fire, and, after running through the structure rousing the sleeping occupants, turned In an alarm of fire |