The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-02
TWENTY-FIVE Lose LIVES.
CAUGHT IN An INCENDIART
TENEMENT FIRE.

i'm Exits to the Ffre Escapes Being
Choked with Dead Bodies-FIre of
Very short Duration.
New York, Nov. Twenty men,
three women and a ten-months' old
babe were burned to death or suffocat-
ed in fire that started early this
morning in the five-story tenement
house at 426 Eleventh avenue and which
the police and coroner believe to have
been of incendiary origin.
Some of the peculiar features of the
disaster, in addition to the startling
loss of life. are that the fire was prac-
tically extinguished in twenty minutes,
that the police could learn of but one
person being injured, other than those
who lost ther lives. and that the prop
erty loss was only $1,000. The dead,
who are mostly Italians. are: .
GuiseDpi Rossi. eighteen years old;
Antonio Rossi, twenty years old; Justi-
no Rossi, twenty-one years old; Mich
olas aNogal, twenty-five years old;
Pietro Deresi, twenty-six years old;
Antonio Brocero, thirty-four years old;
Maculeta Vngiguerro. twenty-seven
years old. wife of Deresi; Philomena
Deresi. a babe: Antonio villno. twen-
ty-seven years old; Frances Villno, his
| wife, twenty-seven years old; Sarah
| O'Toole, forty-eight years old; Antonio
D'Angelo. forty years old; Pasquale
| Marotto, forty-one years old; Frank
Mastrenio. twenty-four years old; Mat
tio vandrano. forty years old; Jose
Mustrim of Mustilio, twenty years old;
Pietro Donyski. thirty years old: Jo-
seph Zorowitch, tWenty-four years old;
Frank Delmonio. twenty years old;
Antonio Berolich, seventeen years old;
Antonio Ucilini, twenty-five years old;
| Giuseppi Cappelli, thirty-five years
old; three unidentified Italian labor
ers.
/ The only person injured. so far as
can be learned, is Mary Jane Quinn,
4 forty-years old, who was burned about
4 the face and hands and severely bruis-
i ed by leaping from second floor fire es-
cape to the ground. #s
\ In several apartments in the tene-
ment Halloween parties We're in pro-
gress and the guests at these added
Il greatly to the number of persons in
/ the house and made the crush and Jam
to escape more than tt ordinarily would
have been. Although plentifully pro
i vided with fire escapes, front and rear
/ escape here was cut off in a few min
! utes after the fire started by the bodies
of the dead being wedged in the open.
ings leading to the ladders. The fire
had been burning for some minutes be.
fore it was discovered. It had started
i in the basement and, rushing upward
had attacked the stairway leading Il
the apartments. In a short space o.
time the flames had so enveloped tn,
i stairway that egress from the build
ings by it was impossible The houst
from the third to the fifth floor wal
8 entirely destroyed. AT the windows
front and rear, bodies of men and wo
men were jammed, showing that des
perate struggle to get free had resulted
in the complete choking of these exit.
to the fire escapes and had been th
cause Of a number of the inmates be
/ ing suffocated. Perhaps the most tragi
sight was that which the firemen say
on bed alongside window at tn
rear Of the fourth floor, where wer
the bodies Of five men. Each hat
clutched the one next to him in an en-
. deavor to push him away in order t
get to the fire escape outside. The feat
ures of the men. were distorted, som
with rage, others with agony, and il
two instances the men had gripped eacl
other SO hard that blood had beel
drawn and had run over their hands.
On the third floor were found tn
bodies of Maculeta Vingigurro and he
baby. The mother had crawled to TIL
front window and had succeeded Il
| grasping the sill when she was suffo
Gated. In her arms lay the body of he
child. i