Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-02
twenty-five People Burned to
Death or Sui1ocated in New
York Building.
SOME PECULIAR FEATURES.
Fire Pat Out Ia Twenty Minutes, but
Police Could Learn Of Only One
Person Ia the Fire.

New York, Nov. 1,--Twenty-
men. three women ana 10-month-old
baby we're burned to death or suffocat-
cd I'm fire that started early this
morning in the House OF All Nations"
a flve-story tenement house, at i26
Eleventh avenue, and which the police
and coroner believe to have been OF i'm
oendiary origin.
Some Of the peculiar features of the
disaster In addition to the startling
loss OF life, are that the fire was prac-
,ically extlnguished In 20 minutes;
that the police could learn Of but on,
nerson being injured, other than those
who lost their lives, and that the prop
erty loss was only $1,000. The deed
are mostly Italians.
THE DEAD.
Giuseppe RoSsi,
Antonio Rossi.
mstino Rossi,
Nicholas Nogal.
Pietro Dressi.
Antonio Brosera.
Nuculeta Vingiguerro Doresi,
Phiwomena Doresi, baby
Antonio Villmo.
Frances Villmo.
Sarah OToole.
Antonio DAngelo.
Pasqualo Marotto.
Frank Mastrenlo.
Motto Nendrano.
Jose Mustrim.
pletro Donyski.
Joseph Zorowitz.
Frank Delmonio,
Antonio Berloich.
Antonio Uclilini
Giuseppe Cappelli.
Three unidentified Italian laborers
The only person injured. so far as
,an be learned, is Mary Jane Quinn
who was burned about the face and
hands and severely bruised by leaping
from a second floor fire escape TO the
ground,
In several apartments In the tene-
ment Halloween parties were In Frog
ress and the guests at these added
greatly to the number OF persons In
the house and made the crush and lam
10 escape more than II ordinarily
would have been. Although plentfully
provided with fire escapes, front and
rear escape here was cut of 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 II was discovered. II
had started I'm the basement and. rush
ing upward had attacked the stairway
leading TO the apartments. In short
space OF time the flames had so en-
yeoped the stairway that egress from
the building by il was impossible. The
house from the third to the fifth floor
was entirely destroyed
At the windows front and rear,
bodies OF men and women were
TANNED. showing that desperate
struggle to get free had resulted In
the complete choking of these exits to
the fire escape and had been the cause
of number OF the inmates being suf
located Lying on a bed alongside
window at the rear OF the fourth floor
the fremen found the bodies of Ave
men.
Each had clutched the one next to
him In an endeavor to push him away
in order to get to the FIRE escape out
side. The features OF the men wre
distorted some with rage. others with
agony and i'm two instances tho men
had grIpped each other 30 hard that
blood had been drawn and had run
over their hand
On the third floor were found the
bodies OF Nuculeta Vnglguerro Dore-
81 and her baby. The mother had
crawled TO the front window and had
succeeded in grasping the sill when
she was suffooated. In her arms lay
the body Of her child
on the third floor In an apartment
where Halloween party was being
held, John O"Toole, one OF the occu-
pants started TO 90 to the street. He
was met by n volume of smoke as he
opened the door He ran to the fire
escape. followed by all those In the
fiat with the oYcenIlnn Of his InnIhnr