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Show TEN PERSONS LOSE THEIR LIVES IN TENEMENT . HOUSE FIRE Victims Are AH Italians and Range in Age From Sixty to Four Years They Are Cut Off From Escape by Burning StairwayMany Thrilling RescuesTwo Firemen Take Three Babies From Fourth Floor at a Perilous Risk that she died a few minutes after she had been taken to a hospital. Miss Relnhold lingered In agony until un-til almost midnight when death re-, re-, llevcd hor. New York, March 3. Cut off from escape by a burning stairway, ten persons perished early today in a fivc-Btory fivc-Btory tenement house at 372-4 Seventh nvenue. The victims who wore all Italians, with one exception, ranged in age from 60years to a girl of Tour. Five persons, Including a fireman, were injured or overcome by smoke. It was at first believed that the blazo vas incendiary, following a "black-hand" "black-hand" mailing notice, which an occupant occu-pant of the building recolved several months ago, but the Are marshals and police, after investigating, reported that the firo wa not of incendiary origin. or-igin. The Dead. , Roeallo FlIlbGrtl, 60 years old. Contanzo Gruppl, 58 years old, sister sis-ter of Rosalio Flllberti. Proveuzio Placla, 13 years old. Rosa riacla, Filibertl's nloce. Carolina Sansone, aged 8. Mrs. Josephine Travisano. aged 50. Lena Travisano, aged 20. Joseph Travisano, 17. Evelyn Paslfo, aged 4. Unidentified Frenchman, about 30 yenr6 old. There were about thirty families in the tenement house and policemen and firemen rescued many of them by ladders, and by swinging them across from windows to neighboring buildings. build-ings. Several babies wore thrown from the windows and caught by firemen fire-men who were standing on the extension ex-tension ladders. The lire started In the bottom of an airshaft and was discovered by Patrick Monks, a watchman, watch-man, who ran through the burning building", spreading the alarm. Most of the occupants were asleep, when the fire began, and many of them were overcome before awakening. Policemen Po-licemen Rellly and Gallagher obtained access to the upper floors of the burning burn-ing building by climbing to the root and creeping along the cornice to tho rooms occupied by Paslfo, who with his wife and son Louis, aged 7. were taken out of the window and carried to the adjoining building, when the firemen took them to the street. . Three babies were taken from the rooms on the fourth floor by thrilling work of two firemen. Standing on an extension ladder outside the windows, win-dows, Robert Nelson, one of the firemen, fire-men, caught two of the children as they were thrown to him by another fireman from the window. As Nelson started down tho ladder, the man again appeared at the window and called out: "I've got another baby here; catch it." Before Nelson could reply, ho man threw the child oat of the window and Nelson, with two babies already In his arms, managed to catch the third and carried them all down the ladder to the street. All lnit two of those who perished In the fire were occupants of the upper up-per floor. The belief that the fire was the work of blackmailers arose Trom the statement of Antonio Urso, a barber, who said he had received a blackhand letter two months ago demanding 5-00. Urso said he paid no attention to the letter. |