Show fire in a new york tenement seven people smothered to death the only means of escape a narrow stairway fatal jump of mrs lena ls ew york oct SO seven people were to death by moke in 6 tenement louse fire at slowest thirty street this morning they were georae friedmann Fried mani 4 fars old lev friedmann aged 3 annie appleblatt Apple blat 22 lena mitchell 24 mrs margaret 70 jacob Killia ii lier eon 40 george 1 evl mrs brandson pr andson 20 lena the mot berof the dead children jumped from a third atory window she wua fatally injured the hooee Is a five story brick tenement there were seven fe milies tho only means of escape was by a narrow stairway th fire was discovered at 3 by a passerby there was not a sign of life to enter the bouse meant death the only bobo bopo for those within was by arousing them by sli onte in a few there was not a window in the front of the house that did not contain a wild and frightened fice a rin woman or child framed in by the smoke which poured forth in volumna volu mca by the fire escapes twenty tenants reached descending in the of name and smoke before the ladder trucks arrived ou the third atory they spread over the entire rear portion there lived nathan Prid mann his wife lana thre young children iwo boarder annie Appie blat and lena mitchell nathan was aroused by the enicke and noise cauti hing the baby in hi arm be sprang to a window and by the fire escape mrs bad rushed to a window but not where the fire escape wag she leaped from ilie window add fell into the basement area children and two boarders slept in an inner apartment the fire had not reached then but the moke filled the room Georrea nd alvy and lena were still in bed when found and the peaceful expression on their faces showed they had no knowledge of the death that them so suddenly aaflie Apple klat was lying dead on the floor evidently she bad been aroused and had stopped to don her and died before he had aln islieb ori the fourth mrs killian and were in bed her grandson was on the floor half way to a rear window alip damage to the house will not exceed 2000 |