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Show FIRE IN A TENEMENT IS FATAL TO FOURTEEN Escape. From the Rooms Is Soon Crit Off and ttc Occupants Oc-cupants Perish Miserably. NEW TORI& Sept. 5. Fourteen person per-son were killed and pearly a score injured in-jured In a fire In a flve-atory double tenement In Attorney street yesterday morning. The dead include four women, wo-men, one man and, nine children ranging rang-ing In age from S month to 12 years. Many of the Injured were taken to hospitals, and it la thought that several sev-eral of these will die. Among the injured in-jured were Ave firemen, who were In a fourth floor balcony when it fell with them. The1 smal number of men among the killed and injurell was due to the fact that most of the men, who lived in the building, following the Attorney street custom In hot weather, were asleep on the root, while but few of the women , and children were there. Those on the roof were unable to escape by descend- j Iny through the burning building, and .made their way to safety over neighboring neigh-boring roofs. 'Meanwhile the members of their families who had remained In their rooms found escape cut oft. and panle reigned throughout the structure. The fire started about t o'clock In the morning, and there was much delay in sending In an alarm, although the district dis-trict Is one of the most thickly populated popu-lated In the crowded East Side of New Tork. When the firemen reached the scene some of the tenants were Jumping Jump-ing from the .windows and from the ends of fire-escape that reached nly to the second floors. Others Were crouching In the smoke in h small room and narrow halls. ' The fire Is- supposed to have been i caused by the explosion of a lamp that had been left t? light th hall on the second floor, and the sleeping tenants were not aroused until the hallway was ablaze and escape through the building cut off. The fire was soon extinguished and the search for the dead began. Most of the dead were found oa the two upper floors. While the search of the building was going on four firemen were at work on a fourth-floor balcony, when IV- gave way. Another fireman on the balcony on the floor below was also carried down and was probably fatally injured. I The other four were badly hurt, but j will recover. Two of them fell upon a pile of bedding In the courtyard, and i their injuries were caused -chiefly by the ironwork of the balcony falling upon them. Leon Sober, owner of the building. Morris Levine, the agent, and Henry Breitman, the superintendent, were arrested ar-rested last niffht and were charged with criminal negligence. |