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Show WOMAN AND DAUGHTER LOSE THEIR LIVES IN A TENEMENT-HOUSE FIRE NEW YORK, March 5. Ellen Vail, 55 years old. and daughter, , Elizabeth Vail, 22 years old, met death In a fire in East Seventieth street today. The older woman was suffocated and the younger Jumped from the fourth floor. Property Prop-erty loss by the fire was small. James Vail, the son, was the only one of the family who escaped. He had tried to rescue his mother and sister, but was cut off by the flames and forced to run to the rear fire escapes to save his own life. The ten families in the house, numbering 100 people, became panic stricken from the fire. . |