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Show EIGHT PERSONS LOSE LIVES Fire in Tenement House Causes Death of Men, Women and Children. New York, Dec. 31 Eight persons, five men and three women, were killed kill-ed in a tenement house fire at 96 Monroe street, In the crowded east-side east-side district today Fifteen persons were Injured, four serlouslv, by jumping jump-ing from fire escapes. The fire started on the ground floor, cutting off escape by the stairway. stair-way. An hour before dawn tho tenants in the house were aroused by cries of persons in the street. Finding escape es-cape by way of the stairway shut off, i hey crowded on the fire escape plat forms The calmer one waited for the firemen to raise ladders A few made their escape over the roofs of adjoining tenement house. All indications were that the fire was started b an Incendiary and an Investigation was begun |