Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-03-13
SET A DEATH TRAP.
Angry Italian Accused OF Fir
ing a Tenement.
THE VICTIMS NUMBER FOURTEEN.
Mysterious Blaze Followed Quarrel
Over Game of Cards In Newark, n.
J.-some Persons Escaped Almost Nude.
Great Excitement.

NEW York, March 13.-Fourteen per-
sons lost their lives, two persons We're
seriously injured and many others
slightly burned in fire in tene-
ment house IN Newark, n. J. The fire.
men, after the flames had been subdued,
took 10 bodies from the ruins and, while
they were thus engaged, another victim
of the fire died in the city hospital. One
family was wiped ont completely and of
another only the father lives, ac1 he is
IN the city hospital, where 4 is b alieved
he will die.
The police are confident that the fire
was Of incendiary origin, and they have
arrested Vito Credanza on suspicion.
The list Of dead and injured follows:
The Killed.
Bold, Nnnziata, 45 years old, wife of
Boldi, Teresa, years old, daughter Of
Salvatore Bold.
castillo, Angela, % years old, wife Of
Uggenio castillo.
castillo, Benninita, years old, daugh-
ter Of Uggenio castillo.
castillo, Antonio, 8 years old, son of
Uggenio castillo.
castillo, Frank, 21a years old, son of
Uggenio castillo.
castillo, Carmina, / year old, daughter
of Uggenio castillo.
Palmisano, Antonio, IS years old
Palmisano, Sebastiana, wife of Anto-
MO Palmisano.
Palmisano, Guiseppa, years old,
daughter Of Atomic Palmisano.
Palmisano, Nunziata, l year old,
daughter Of Antonio Palmisano.
Rosso, Angelo, unmarried, died at
City hospital of fractured skull.
Unidentified body of child, about 4
years old.
Seriously Injured.
Bold, Salvatore, burned about the
hands III escaping from the building
castillo, Uggenio, at City hospital, suf-
ferlng from Commissions sustained in
jumping from window.
There was a disorderly card game in
one of the rooms that lasted well into
the morning. Credanza was a partici-
pant and is said to have made violent
threats against his fellow players. A
few minutes before O'Clock every one
in the building wa awakened by the
flames. They found the fire burning at
the foot of the stair leading from the
first to the second sto. les. The hallway
and the stairs were burning fiereely.
cutting off the only egress from the
upper floor, on which TX families lived
1t also cut off the escape by the door for
those who lived in the rear part of the
first floor Those who could made for
the windows. Froga these they leaped
or dropped
The wEc5e neighborhood was awake
in an instant, and from the burning
building came agonized screams and
calls for help. From the basement and
ground floor the inmates of the building
poured naked, or almost SO. From the
upper story men and women leaped to
sidewalks By the time the fremen
reached the scene the building was
wrapped i'll flames, and those who had
not escaped We're dead or doomed They
must have died within few minutes,
for the fire rushed through every room
in the frail building within ten min
utes.
The fire lasted only few minutes
The search for the dead began within 20
minutes after the alarm sounded, So
quickly was the fire conquered.
While the search was going on Resso
died at the city hospital, where he had
been taken after the fremen arrived and
found him lying on the sidewalk. He
had leaped from the second story and his
skull was crushed in.