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Show PANIC IN A TENEMENT Women Hurl Children From Burning Building to Crowd Below. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. Sixteen Italian families, with many small children, were thrown into panic by a fire early today in a five-story tenement house at 2057 First avenue In Harlem. The flames, starting in the cellar, worked their way into the four upper stories of the building before they were discovered, cutting- off all means of exit ex-it for the tenants except they took the fire escapes. Descending to the second story several sev-eral panic-stricken women hurled their youngest children to the crowds on the ground. Policemen caught many of the youngsters and carried them to a place' of safety. t More than 150 persons were made homeless and the tenement was ruined. One woman was reported miss-ins. |