Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-27 | Page 1 | Four Fersons Suffocated to Death

FOUR PERSONS SUFFOCATED SUFFOCATED TO DEATH New Nt York May 27 Four persons pers na were 1110 tn to 0 death and an 1 two others to so 0 badly burned that It Is III fear feared ed ld they will die In a n Ore fire early today lO In the apartment house bous at atM M led West One and Thirty fifth street The Ore fire Is I said wd to have been Jeen of or incendiary origin TUB TilE DEAD D AD Mrs Urs Julia and her three Jeorge aged aed 6 Helene Hel 4 luniett 9 Those bell believed td to have hao been blon fatally tabU burned are arc George and lind Vic Victor tar tor Johnson Johnson discovered dl the tho tin fire and avers to have seen IJen the tho mail muon who is II Mid hi to have started It Johnson wild sold he saw A man nan lighting seine shavings and waste at the Ule f to rp t of ot the tIte Ut stairs claim The Th stairs had b k n M caked with Kerosene and som some of tho the oil dripped fIl on Johnsons clothing With his 1115 clothes burning Johnson as IlS asserts assorts sorts he lie chaW chased the Incendiary for sot M seal eral blocks before he be fell tell exhausted Other Othu persons say Bay they saw w the tho man till thin from th the hou house e pursued by John Jolin Johnson I son lOll Mrs was III found dead with her children on the tho top tOil floor door where they lived