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Show FIVE LIVES LOST IN TENEMENT FIRE Trapped By Flames, Family Suffocates Before Aid Can Arrive. NEW YOEK, Dec. 24..va members of a family occupying an apartment on tne top floor of a five-story tenement iiouee at 3113 West Forty-ninth street, were trapped in a fire early today that parted in the basement and spread rapidly rap-idly up the elevator shafts. Four members mem-bers of the family were suffocated bo-tore bo-tore aid could reacli them, the fifth dying soon after being takon to a hospital. hos-pital. The dead are Mrs. Marv Corso 48 years old: her three sons, Charles j...,,, cum xiarry, , and ner niece, Grace Anadale, S years old. The only surviving member of the family, Arthur Corso, a telephone operator op-erator at the Polyclinic hospital was on duty when the fire started.' and ordered out ambulances to the scene He dul not learn of the death of his relatives nntll his mother was brought Into the hospital, where sh.- died ' Scores of other tenants in the hiiiltl- mff suffered from inhaling smoke and minor injuries in rseapiij, from the building. Patrolmen and "firemen performed per-formed many thrilling rescues from the windows on the fourth and fifth floor's The money loss was only t.yion. |