Deseret Evening News | 1908-03-16 | Page 8 | Sixty Lives in Danger in Queer Tenement Fire

SIXTY LIVES IN DANGER IN QUEER TENEMENT FIRE FIREL L New York March 16 The lives hives o or of 60 persons In hut a tenement housa at 69 6 9 Madison avenue were wre endangered carl early today Ilda by h what III IB believed to have been boon an hull attempt 0 of an Incendiary to burn bun the thi building Fortunately time the flames llamas discovered aunt and extinguished be hc before before fore they had spread from the base basement ment and all the tho occupants of ot the tho house wore were able to make their escape e pe peIn In safety Whon When the tho firemen went ent Into dim he basement ba they found seven separate fires In progress and amid tho the whole filled with smoke moke and naptha fumes who was IlS seen Men to toelt leave elt the building a few tew minutes be bc before before fore tore tic the fires were vera discovered was WI S ar 11 arrested rested rc ted