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Show WOFJHN BURNED TO DEATH SND MRNY DRIVEN FROM HOME BY INCENDIARIES NEW YOHK, Nov. 9. One woman is dead, a man isin a hospital suffering from severe burns, 2000 persons fled from tbeir homes in panic, and thousands thou-sands more passed a sleepless night as a result of a aeries of incendiary fires in the two blocks bounded by Sixtieth apd Sixty-first streets and "Columbus and West End avenues early today. Scores of persons whose lives were endangered by the conflagration were rescued by firemen. In all. there were five fires, everyone every-one of them incendiary, between midnight mid-night and 3 o'clock this morning. The woman who lost her Life was Mrs. Caroline Swain, 70 years old, whose home adjoins one of the buildings build-ings which was fired. She died of heart failure induced by fright. Adrian Tompkins, in a hospital with his hands and feet severely burned as a result of climbing down a red hot fire escape, is seriously injured. The rapidly succeeding fires, the crowds of excited tenants and the terrifying ter-rifying rumors spread through the neighborhood, with the constant appearance ap-pearance and reappearance of the fire engines and the big squads of police, raised the people throughout the vicinity vi-cinity to a high piteh of excitement which did not lessen until daylight brought a measure, of assurance that the incendiarism was stopped for a while. In each case the firemen quicklv stopped the progress of the flames. The loss was about $20,000. Frank Morris, a Boston vaudeville performer, was arrested on suspicion of setting the fires. The police allege that in each of the fires tenants reported re-ported that when they fled from their apartments Morris was the first person tney met. |