Evening journal., 1903-11-02
THE EVENING JoURNA- MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1903
CHEAT Loss Of LIFE
AND DAMAGE BY FIRE
Continued from First Pase)

10 naye oe.s OF incondiary origin.
Some OF the peculiar features Of the
disaster. in addition to the STARTLING
loss Of life. are that the fire was prac
ticaily extingushed in 20 minutes
that the police could learn Of but one
person being injured. other than those
who lost their lives, and that the
property loss was only $1,000. The
dead arc mostly Italians.
The only person injured, SO far as
can be learned, is Mary Quinn, AZ
years old, who was burned about the
face and hands and severely bruised
by leaDing from the second-story IRE
escaped to the ground.
In several apartments IN the tene.
meat Halloween parties were Ia pro
gress and the guests at these added
greatly to the number of persons in
the house. and made the crush and
jam TO escape more than It ordinarily
would have been. Although pentifully
provided with fire escapes, front and
rear, escape here was cut off few
minutes after the fire started by the
bodies OF the dead becoming wedged
in the openings leading to the ladders,
The FIRE had been burning for some
minutes before it was discovered. II
had started in the basement and. rush
ing upward. had attacked the stAirwaN
leading TO the apartments. IN a shor
space Of tine the flames had so en-
velopcd the stairway that egress fror
the building by 1T was impossible. Th'
house from the third to the fifth flooi
was entirely destroyed.
At the windows. front and rear
bodies Of men and women wer
iammed, showing that desperate
struggle to get free resulted in the
complete choking up Of these exits to
the FIRE escapes and had been tn.
cause of a numbvr OF the inmates BE-
Ing suhocated. Lying on a bed alon
side a window at the rear Of the fourtl
floor the fremep found the bodies O.
iive men. EaGl had clutched the ono
next TO him in an endeavor to pust
him away ~. order to get 70 the fir
escape ouVside. The features of th
men were distorted, some with rage
others With agony, and in two il
stances the men had grlpped eac
ether 10 hard that blood had been
drawp and had run over their hands.
On the third floor were found the
hodf as of Maculeta Vingiguerro ani
hey baby The mother had crawled e.
lh'l Front window and had succeeded
y grasping the sill when she was SUI
ocated. In her arms ley the body OF
her child.
Whom the fremen reached the scene
there was a mass Of flame bursting
hrouch the middle Of the roof, while
lhe air was filed with heartrcndiue
screams OF the women and the curses
Of the men. Many daring regcues were
made by the flremen. who at times had
to use violence in their attempts tc
di1entangle the mass Of wreathin'
human beings struggling in vain efforts
to reach safety from the crowded fire
escapes One fireman climbed to tn
fourth door, where q window was lllo'
with q mass Of people, iammed in ant
fighting to get out. Tie struck tn
heads Of all the men he could see wit
his fist and they fell back. lie thei
handed down to the fremen on ladder
below three women and a : w. An
other fireman performed a similar fea
and rescued two girls from the fourtl
noor
Lie nets played a prominent par
in the work of rescue The firemer
dropped men and women, dead an,
alive, from one floor to another ant
finally the men standing on ladders
on the hrst floor let them fall into tn,
nets held by policemen and firemen IL
the street.
The building was known as "Th'
House Of An Nations" because of thu
different nationalities of it's tenants.