Show FIRE IN A FLAT SEVERAL PERSONS IN A BLAZE IN NEW YORK new york jan 2 three alarms have been sent in for a fire in a five story flat house first avenue the flames which suddenly belched from the building were discovered by men working in the united dress com banys plant they carried out half a dozen women while many persons got to tho street by means of fire escapes it is feared that the suddenness of the are has cut off the escape of some of the tenants on the top floor six months old loretta lennert was found in bed dead she had been smothered by the the childs father edward lennert a butcher was taken to flower hospital burned about the bands and face the childs mother margaret was carried down a ladder and taken to bellevue hospital suffering from shock joseph lennert brother of the dead child jumped from a window of one of the lower floors he was seriously injured and taken to bellevue Bell evua hospital joseph kelleher 19 years of age a bell boy rushed into the building before the arrival of the firemen he rescued lillie powers a child carrying her through the fire and smoke he was burned nebout the hands and face and was taken to bellevue hospital robert lowe aged 18 a companion of kelleher who also went into the burning building was burned about the hands pauline ilchman 3 years old who boarded with a family on the first floor jumped from her window her back was injured she was taken to flower hospital wild rumors got around from minute to minute of missing persons but each in turn turned up at the fire was out and everybody had been accounted for the house was gutted entailing a loss of ten families were made homeless |