Show CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH IN NEW YORK t tenement house supposed to have been set on fire by incendiary heroic work of a policeman I 1 kaw york june leive lF ive persons were horned to death early today in a y flat building at east one hundred F and fifteenth treet it is l fire wa of incendiary origin r tiie dead s thereal decicco aged 4 p camillo dericco aged 2 decicco aged 4 months I 1 francisca ran cisca aged 8 yearb ciprano aged 24 years it is claimed acy the police that the hallways of th building had been covered oil and that bundles of rugs maturated with the same substance alo 0 were found scattered about alie place the fire was discovered by lilio ue cicco who lives on the third floor of the building he was cahng for a kick j child ahen he led smoke and look t ing into the hall found it filled with eineke and llan ipg ilia cries aroused alio other tenants most of whom es decicco his wife and one child were taken down a fire escape by a po alicc aran atho tred to return for others but wa surrounded ty names at the bird floor ariy 1 ab preparing to jump when the firemen arrived thae building at thia time wa burning fiercely but the firemen were bent up the ladders in an effort to rescue others ciprano wag found on the top floor still alive but unconscious lie was to the hospital where he died halt an hour later acain the firemen started up the ladder but they were forced back by the blaze and further sparcle of the building wao impossible until the fire wai extinguished the bodies f the three decicco children were on the third floor ciprano is thought to have asia ted members of the estetana family to the street and was overcome han he returned to make further rescues the police are of the opinion thit the fire was of incendiary origin there hava been a number of incendiary birc t in tenement houses in this locality aad a number oi lives baie been lost |