Show ELEVEN DIE J Il N FIRES Hotel Blaze Victim Clings to Window and Drops to His Death I I When Flames Reach Fingers Bankers Banker's Home Burns Bums in Brooklyn I I l s i eu u e t NEW V YORK Feb 4 Six Six women lost their lives in a a fire which destroyed the home of Mrs Casimir Tag at Hancock street Brooklyn early today Mrs Tag widow of the the president of the German Savings bank escaped i but two of her daughters were Vere among I II those who perished I I The dead I II MISS CAROLINE TAG and MISS HELEN TAG the daughters daughters daugh daugh- of the late bank president HANNAH E. E 68 years old a cousin of Mrs Tag JENNIE a nurse ANNA CAIN and LIZZIE CAIN servants The fire rire Is attributed to defective Insulation of wires Miss 1 Caroline Tag was awakened by smoke and discovered discovered dis dis- dis covered the fire about 3 o'clock this morning Hastening to the telephone she notified her brother who lived Inan Inan in inan an adjoining house and then telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned to the fire tIre department As I she gave the address of her home to the operator at fire headquarters she said I l am being overcome by smoke Miss Shies Tag awakened her mother who is 60 years old and aided her herto herto herto to escape through a third story window window win win- dow to the roof root of an extension in ill inthe the rear tear of the tho house Apparently Miss Tag then went to the rooms of her sister and the other occupants to awaken them and she with the I others was trap trapped ed by the flames and smoke which filled the he hall bali and stairways stairways stair stair- ways ays cutting off ocr their means Deans of exit There was as no fire escape on the I building and the firemen were delayed de de- de- de laed ayed in reaching the house by heavy j I snow now I When the firemen reached the house house it t was blazing furiously Mrs Tag was taken down from the roof of the extension to safety but it wa vas 8 1 not until after the fire tire was extinguished that hat the bodies of or the six victims were discovered lying in Jn the rooms and anti hall hallways ways of oC the third and fourth floors Miss I Caroline Tag Taj was en enraged engaged aged to tobe tobe tobo be bo married on February 15 Her lIer father was prominent in the tobacco industry as well as in Ia banking hankin and left lert an estate e estimated Im led at t |