The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-02
AWFUL LOSS OF
LIFE RESULTED
twenty-five Victims Of New York
Tenement House Horror.
ACCOUNTING DEATH STRUGGLE
FIRE SUPPOSED TO BE OF INcEN.
DIARY ORIGIN.
DEATH STRUGGLE

NEW YORK, Nov. I-Twenty-ons
/ N men. three women and a 10
month-old baby were burned TO
death or suhocated in a fire that
started early this morning i'm the
House Of All Nations" a fve-story
| tenement house, at 426 Eleventh ave
nue., 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-
I tically eNuuguished I'm twenty mia
utes; that the police could learn Of but
one person being injured. other than
those who lost their lives. and thar
the property loss was only $1,000 The
dead are mostly Italians
List Of Victims.
Giuseppe Rossi. Antonio Rossi Jus
GnO Rossi. Nicholas NogaI. PIetro
DTeSsi. Antonio ErOSara. NucuInta Vim
giguerro Doresi. Phi0mana Doresf.
baby. Antonio Nfllmo Frances Viii
mo, Sarah O'Tocle. Antonio D'AnecI0.
Pasqualo Narcotic, Frank Nastrenio.
Mattio Nendrano Jose NIUstrim Pietro
Donysld- Joseph Zorowits Frank Del
mOniO. Antonio BerIoich. Antonio UcU-
lini. Giuseppe CappeIH. three unidenti-
fed Italian laborers.
Only One Injured.
The only person injured. so Tar as
can be learned. is Mary Jane Quinn.
who was burned about the face and
hands and severely bruised by leaping
from d second floor fire escape to che
ground.
I'm several anartu7orl+s in tia faDa-
meut Halloween parties were iu prog
ress. and the guests at these added
greatly to the number of persons i'm
the house and made the crush and jam
10 escape more than Oh ordinarily
would have been. Although ulentitullv
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 wedEed
In the openings leading to the ladders
The fire had been burning for some
minutes before it was discovered. It
had started i'm the basement and. rush
ing upward. had attacked the stairway
leading to the apartments. In a short
space Of time the flames had so en-
velOped the stairway that egress from
the building by IL was impossible. The
house from the third 20 the fifth floor
was entirely destroyed.
At the windows. front and rear.
bodies of men and women were
damned. showing that a desperate
struggle 20 get free had resulted IN
the complete choking Of these exits tn
the fire escape and had been the cause
Of a number Of the inmates being sur
located. Lying on bed alongside a
window at the rear OF the fourth floor
the fremen found the bodies Of Eve
men
Agonizing Struggles.
him in an eudeavOr ia push him away
i'm order TO get to the fire escape out
side. The features of the men were
distorted. some with rage. others with
agony. and i'm two Instances the men
had gripped each other so hard thar
blood had been drawn and had run
over their hands
on the third floor were found the
bodies of NUCUleta NinEiEUerrO DOre-
81 and her baby. The mother had
craWled to the front window and had
succeeded i'm grasping the sill when
she WAS sUfoCated- In her arms lay
the body of her child
on the third floor, i'm an apartment
where a Halloween party was being
held. John O'Toole. one Of the OCcu-
pants, started to so TO the street. He
was met by a volume OF smoke as he
opened the door. He ran to the fire
escape followed by all those I'm the
flat with the exception OF his mother
whose cnarred body later was found
lying at the entrance TO the apartment
O'TOOle and the others escaped.
Screams and Curses.
When the fremen reached the scene
there was a mass OF flame bursting
through the middle of the roof. while
the air was filled with the hearTending
screams of the women and the curses
OF the men. Many daring rescues were
made by the fTemeu. who nj times
had to use violence i'm their attempts
to disentangle the mass of writhing
human beings struggling i1 vain eff
forts To reach safety from the crowded
fire escapes.
One fireman climbed To- the fourth
floor where a window was filled vita
a mass of people. damned in and fight
ing TO get out. He struck the heads or
all the men he could see with his FIST,
and they fell back. He then handed
down to the firemeu ON ladders below
three women and a baby. Another
fireman performed a similar feat and
rescued two girls from the fourth floor.
Life nets played a prominent part i'm
the work of rescue. The hremen
dropped men and women. dead and
alive. from one floor to another, ana
finally the men standing on ladders on
the first floor let them fan into the
nets held by policemen and iremen In
the street.
The building was known as the
House Of All Nations" because of the
1fera~ar7r r1a+fona1ftfau 0r ffe tenants