Show EIGHT EIGHT ARE ARETO BURNED I TO MATH DEATH BY BV BYThe NEW NEWYORK YORK BLACKMAILERS The BlacK Blach Hand So Society ety Spreads Kerosene in 1 r Tenement Halls 1 NEW YORK YanK April 30 Eight Eight persons person five n of or them children were wt-ro burned to death and an fourteen Courteen others injured In ht an incendiary fire In a story five tenement tenement tene tene- ment house at 37 Spring street occupied d by twenty families early carly today Tho The blaze blazo followed a demand b by members of or the tho Black Dlack Hand Haud society for the payment of ot blackmail The flames spread through the building with Willi startling rapidity as time till hallways were cro soaked 1 with It kerosene oil b by the blackmailers In a panic which followed tol the tho alarm the tho tenants fought rought their Wet way down n tho fire escapes or jumped from Crom the tho windows s while ba babies leB were thrown from Crom windows Into the arms of or policemen I Among tho rho injured three children are aro not expected to recover pr Jacob proprietor of ot tho grocery store on the main floor of or tho the build building Ins Ins- re received rc no on oft April IS a letter readings reading Wo We demand 1000 or death Bring It In to Mott Iott street treet is dead deal but the tho Blick laud Hand Jives hives lv s. s Signed BLACK BAK Al IIA HAND AND D SOCIETY On Monday last Bruck r received another I letter lter written In III n a similar l strain lie turned both l letters over O to the police |