Show mi PERISH sleepers caughe in F ery furnace ath no chance of escape many being injure by jump ng from windows new york eleven persons were killed more than a dozen injured and thirty more escaped death by the narrowest margain in an incendiary alre which wrecked a tenement house early monday that a deliberate at tempt was made to destroy the house and its occupants as well the police and firemen do not doubt three barrels stuffed with rubbish soaked with oil were blazing fiercely in the lower hall cutting off the escape of the fifty or more persons who were leeping on the upper floors some of these died in their beds overcome smoke and then caught by the flames others who had been aroused loo late fell unconscious before they could reach a window and were burned to death scarcely an arm s length from safety many were injured by lumping from upper windows to the street or by being crushed as they fought for positions of safety on the choked alre escapes mothers and fathers with children in their arms and the smoke pouring out of the windows behind them and the cracking of the flames in their cars became panic stricken and tossed their children to friends in the street fully a dozen children were tossed aiom the second and third floors and were caught by men stand ng in the street the men and women were later carried down by fireman on ladders |