Show DEATH I IN I FIE FIRE TRAP TRAPI Fourteen People Perish In I New Newark Newark ark aik Tenement Building I 1 NOT MAKE ESCAPE M NARROW OW JAMMED WITH WiTti N H JA FRIGHTENED ITALIANS I S SI I I I II I II Firemen Free Have a Hard Hd Task Tk Effecting Rescues Prom From the te Roaring Boar Caul Cauldron dron One Man M Is I Arrested on o aCha a Charge Cha ge of Setting Fire Fr to t the Structure 4 Newark N J March 12 Fourteen persons a a majority of whom were chil children chi children dren perished at a tenement house hous fire are areat at Morris and ad Fourteenth avenue about 5 this morning Thirteen bodies were recovered within three thre hours hour af at after atter ter tee the he flames had h been bee extinguished Following Is a list of those whose bodies have been recovered Antonio Bastiano his wife wie Guiseppe 7 years old Par 1 year ea old Angelo Anelo 9 Casino old Tony Dev into Casino 4 years old ld Frank Casino 2 y ya years ars old Carrine Carrne Casino CaIno daugh daughter ter 1 l year old Mrs Guiseppe Barto Mrs 1 Nunziato Barto Bato his hs wife Thereso Theresa Barto his daughter The building was wa a frame fre structure formerly used as a a church but transformed into a tenement house hous with wih small saU rooms scarcely feet in dimensions opening into narrow marrow hallways on both the second and ad third floors fors forming veritable a fire trap Itis It 13 is in the heart of the Italian district excitement prevailed and great gat 1 Wild Wid With Excitement When We it I became known that the fire was of ot incendiary origin men and I women crazed by grief ran r tearing around the streets street looking for forthe forthe forthe the man who wan waa Wa responsible foe fon fo the frightful vengeance tragedy and threatening dire Three or four minutes after this morning moring the fire was discovered but long before the fire apparatus reached rached the scene wild wid Italians were running hither and thither in the build building building ing unable to find means mens of escape espe Every Eyel room emptied empted its It occupants occupant into the narrow narow halls haUs from which there was wag no escape escape because of ot the jam There were at least twelve families in the place sixty persons in all al of whom perhaps fifty were children un ua unable unable able to care car for themselves Four men jumped from a front win window flow dow Several were hurt hurt The flames spread with wih frightful rapidity and the wind sent the sparks southeast threat threatening ening alt all the frame tenements in that I direction The place was like a roar roarIng lag Ing ng cauldron when the firemen arrived Ladders were quickly put in position poston and then began the work of ot rescue The Te Work of Rescue One after ater another the women and then the men were taken down while other firemen devoted their attention to t drowning the flames This they suc sue succeeded cede in doing in less lean than hour but during that hour a frightful sacrifice had been offered ofed Nearly every room In tn the house con contained its victim Few were really burned Dured to death ceth most of or them were smothered The Te bodies bodie were carried out by the firemen Two victims have been beca bee taken taen to the hospital One o of them is severely burned The other was Ivan wa injured by jumping j from the see sec second ond nd story stor of the burned tenement Vito Vio is locked up on sus ens suspicion IS icon or ct having set st fire to the build building buld lag ing with his wife and two children occupied the rear real portion porton of one of ot the upper stories stories He was ar arrested rested on a statement made by Vir Virginia Virginia ginia ginta ginia dl di who was was a boarder Inthe in inthe inthe the house hous Dl DI Fruta told Captain Ed Edwards Edward Edwards wards that hat when he was awakened by bythe bythe bythe the ward smoke he found and his family fully dressed dr and ready to leave leaveta the burning building became burng ta much excited but denied that he had any fire knowledge as a to the origin orgin of or the I I |