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Show FORTY-EIGHT FAMILIES NARROWLY ESCAPE IN TENEMENT-HOUSE FIRE ROCHESTER. N. T., April 23. Evidence Evi-dence of Incendiarism, Involving the live of forty-eight families in a crowded tenement tene-ment building, were discovered today in an Investigation of a fire which broke out early today. On the ground floor of the burned building Is a cigar factory. At the rear of the factory the chief found a broken window under which the incendiary incen-diary had dragged a hogshead of dry tobacco. In this a Are had been started which later burst into flames, which menaced men-aced the lives of the famine sleeping In the crowded rooms over the factory. The tenants were all hustled out of tbe upper rooms unharmed. |