Eureka Reporter | 1904-09-09 | Page 7 | Terrible Tenement Fire

TERRIBLE TENEMENT FIRE fourteen persons burned to death IP new york city fourteen persons were killed and nearly a score injured in a fire in a five story double tenement in attorney street new york city early sunday morning the dead include four wo men one man and nine children rang ing in age from 3 months to 12 years many of the injured were taken tc hospitals and it Is thought that sev eral of these will die among the in lured were five freman who were ir a fourth floor balcony when it belf with them the small number of men among the killed and injured was due to the tact that most of the men who lived in the building following the actor ney street custom in hot weather were asleep on the roof while bul few of the women and children were there those on the roof were un able to escape by dencen ling through the burning building and made theli way to safety over neighboring roots