Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-16 | Page 5 | Fire Kills 6 in N. Y. Tenement

FIRE KILLS 6 IN INN N N. N Y Y TENEMENT Bronx Blaze Traps Four in Family Two Tv Children Burned Fatally B Br Be Associated Press Pres NEW YORK April Apri 16 Fire 16 Fire sweeping sweep sweep- sweeping sweep ing through a Bronx tenement in which many families slept killed two adults adult and ad four children today It I was vas the second tragic ragie tenement fire lre of the week A mother and five live children died when fire fre trapped them in their fifth floor foor quarters Wednes Wednesday Wednesday Wednes day evening Those burned to t death today were Mr and Mrs Samuel their ld old year twin sons Jacob and ad Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- Jo seph Edith Weinstein 7 and Philip WeInstein 10 The Dombris were fighting to escape es cs' c. c cape when death overtook them Their Ther bodies bodie were found in the third floor Hoor hallway halwAy of the story four structure turc Three other children inthe inthe in inthe the family escaped without Injury The two Weinstein children were trapped in their apartment after ate their father Benjamin Weinstein had led his wife wie and two other children to safety through smoke choked halls hall Rescued by firemen fremen and by patrolmen pa patrolmen who suffered severe burns burs in dragging them out the little girl girland girland gir and boy succumbed several se cral hours later in a hospitaL Benjamin Siegel a painter who lived next door to the burned tenement tene tone ment house was arrested on a charge of homicide after ater detectives and ad an assistant fire marshal marhal conducted an investigation Police said they learned that Siegel had been permitted permit permit- ted to store ropes and tackle of his trade in the ground floor foor locker of the burned building and it was believed that spontaneous combustion among oi oily fire lre rags in Siegel's locker caused the