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Show LOSE LIVES IN AFIRE Old Man and Two Grand-' daughters Arc Burned to Death. . . NEW YORK, Nov. 10. Three persons were burned to death, half a dozen others oth-ers were overcome by smoke and saved only with the greatest difficulty by the firemen, and more than thirty others, after a thrilling experience on a narrow and crowded fire escape, were taken to the street in their night clothes, in a Are that practically destroyed, a five-Story five-Story apartment house on the Upper East Side today. Of the three victims two were young girls, Blanche and Lillian Uhlan, IS and 18 years old, and the other was their grandfather, Frederick Webber, 69 years old. Webber was a helpless paralytic, yet under the excitement of the terrible-fate terrible-fate threatening him, he. arose from his bed and made his way to the hall, where his body, burned to a crisp, was found. - The fire is believed to have been Incendiary In-cendiary In its origin. It started in a mass of boxes, barrels and broken furniture fur-niture that lay piled underneath the 1 stairway leading to the basement. This rubbivh is Paid to be part of a quantity gathered by some of the boys, in the house for an election bonfire, but taken away from them by their elders. Most of it was kerosene-soaked. More than a score of women and chll- dren today were overcome by pmoke, and nearly five families were driven from their apartments in a big tenement tene-ment on Boston road, in the northeastern northeast-ern part of the city, by a fire that started start-ed near the heating apparatus in the " basement. Smoke pouring up from- the basement filled the halls, and when the frightened tenants rushed frosa thtir-. thtir-. rooms many were overcome. Seven persons were found lying sj ft heap In one dark hallway and were carried car-ried out by firemen. On every floor tnV conscious women and children were found, but all recovered as soon as taken in the outer air. The loss was small. |