New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-21
HOUSE WAS A FIRE TRAP
NO ESCAPES IN FRONT.
Suspicious Flames That Killed
TrceLve in Brooklyn.

Ere Marshal Beers will make a rigid investiga-
tio determine. If possible the cause OF the hFe
which resulted in the death OF six women, four
children end men in the frame tenement mouse
st No 1856 Troutrnan-st- Brooklyn. at early hour
yesterday. Acting Battalion Chief Wood, who was
the first the that the fire apparently
started in the woodshed in the cellar. When he
arrived there IL burning fercey up through the
house. He see why there should
have been a fire in the woodshed az that hour In
the morning. O'Clock. There was no furnace there.
Inspector James H. Flynn of Marshal Beerss
stan. WAS busy on the case all day yesterday Be
OF the fact that the tenants the house were
all Italians. he found 1t difficult to get much In
formation but subpenaed several witnesses for the
hearing be held in Fire Headquarters. There
have been many supposed incendiary the
Eastern District in the last three weeks
All OF the dead were sufocated. most Of them
the third top floor Apparently some had made
effort 10 escape. four bodies found in
bed.
THE DEAD.
The list. OF dead is as follows:
cILAGoNI. Mary. 20 years old.
GUIsEPPI Louisa so years old.
AoRELLI. Frances mother &c years old
NoRELII. Catherine daughter, years old
FoDoGoNIA. August. SO years old.
PoLOGONIA. Catherine. Is years old
PoLOGOSIA. Mary. years old.
POLoGONIA. Michael. 6 years old.
PoLOGoNiA. unnamed months old.
TRIOI-I-A, Joseph years old
TTIoI1I-A Maria SO years old
TFtIoII-A. Lille IL years old.
Those who the early part OF the fire say IL
spread through the building with such rRpidity
that those the top floor had little chance to
OF those taken the German Hospital all
were able TO leave the institution yesterday.
cept Tony TrtoIa. thirteen years old, and Charles
Patagonia, thirty-three years old. Both ter
rbly burned all the body. and the chance for
their recovery is slight.
The tenement house where the fire started
one of five. all three story and frame buildings. No
1s2 100 Troutman-st. The fire spread from No
1856 which completely destroyed inside, to the
other four. along the rear part of the roof For
that the tenants in the other houses
able 10 make their escape. although of them
were nearly overcome by the thick smoke, which
spread through the street and chung like heavy
pail. Scores OF people driven from their
homes. Had there been any wind the entire row
doubtless would have gone up like finder, with
much greater loss OF life
The neighborhood is largely filed with Germans.
The other tenement houses IN the burned were
occupied by families of that nationality. The
Italians. who filed No. 1856 of the more thrifty
kind. On the ground floor Antonio Gaimbaloo kept
a grocery store and meat shop. above which he
lived. The fire had good before it was dis
covered by member of the grocers family. who
into the street and gave the alarm
NO FIRE ESCAPES ON FRONT WALL.
There We're fire escapes in the of the build
ings. but in the front All who escaped did
by way of the fire escapes, the stairs
and Railways were a raging furnace by the time
the tenants were aroused. Several persons jumped
the yard. but escaped injury 1t being i'm
possible TO get No. 1856 the fremen devoted
their energies TO getting the tenants out OF the
adjoining houses. Patrolman Conrad Lohr. Of the
Hamburg-ave. station. distinguished himself in
making rescues.
Three alarms brought out force of fremen, who
were able to keep the flames from spreading
other frame houses in the block. hour and
half after the fire started the hremen able TO
get into the burned house.
On The second floor two bodies were found. On
the third the other bodies. Some OF the
bodies were found the door. The women had
10 get out All had met death by suffocation. but
the flames
The friends and relatives of the dead persons
made distressing scene as the bodies were car
Ted and placed in patrol wagons TO be taken TO
various undertskers shops. All but two of the
Patagonia family Of seven were killed and OF
the is IN the hospital. Three of the Triola
family killed and one IS IN the hospital. 4
sick in of the adjoining houses, who had
10 be carried TO the home of friend a block away.
IS in critical condition the result OF exposure
The damage 10 the buildings and furniture is placed
$4,000.
Coroner WIliams who attends to the Eastern
District OF town, but Coroner Flaherty
was called il known there was
great loss of life He lives No. 301 Ocean Park
way. about eight miles from the the fire
ne ~lsheo 10 IedCb tne hpot as sooH as possible
but the cars were not running near his home. A
clerk in the COroner's Office offered 10 send coach
for him, but he rejected the offer, considering it
Of public 10 hire coach. The patrol
dered out and Coroner Flahefty driven the
eight miles that. When he through his work
at the FIRE il was after daylight, and he went down
10 MS Office in a car