Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-17
FIRE IN A BROOKLYN TENEMENT FLAT TO-DAY
 SNAPS OUT SIX LIVES
Twelve Families Asleep in Building When Fire Started Thought to be the Work of an Incendiary- Other Fires Were Discovered at Same Time in the Neighborhood.

New York. Oct 17.-SiX lives were lost. nearly score of persons were injured and the lives of more than q hundred others were endangered in an early morning tenement house fire in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn to-day. With one exception all the dead are children, and of eight who were so badly hurt that they were re moved to a hospital the oldest is fourteen-year-old girl Incendiaries are thought to have been responsible for the fire and this theory is strength ened by the fact that while the firemen were at work on the blaze alarms were turned in for two other fires in the i'm mediate neighborhood.
 The dead are:
 Bella Glass, aged % years of age. Henry Glass, 2 years.
 Ida Saltofsky, 6 years.
 Benjamin Warkolsky, II years. Harry Glass, 6 years.
 Gussie Warkolsky, IA years. d The seriously injured:
 Abraham warkolsky, 9 years. Minnie Warkolsky, ' years. Annie Warkolsy, 5 years. Charles Warkolsky, 3 years. Max Rabinowitz, 6 years. Sarah Rabinowitz, years Twelve families, comprising 120 per- sons were asleep in the fye-story uble-tenement house when the flames were discovered. When the alarm was sounded through the house the men and women, some of the latter with babies in arms, others with chil- dren clinging to the night clothes of their mother ran to the hallway. There they were met with great clouds of choking smoke, while the flames were rapidly closing in about them. Some of the tenants took to the fire escapes. Others fled to the roof before the on- rushing flames, and stood there screaming for help Before the firemefi arrived police re- srves had rescued many persons from the blazing building When the fire men came human lines were formed from the fire escapes and the scream ing women and children were lowered to the pavement. The flames burst from windows all about them, and the clothes of many of them were burned from their bodies. Their hair was singed and their bodies burned. At the same time firemen with scai- ing ladders had reached the ro0E and were carrying down to safety the frenzied lx9nisii q .ed children Elso had t{t<teAt aAAf Ell
 MHny persons unable to reach either
 roof or fire escapes were taken from windows through which the flames already were beginning to pour While the fire was atits height the i've War kolskY children were found huddled in
 d blazing room by 8 fireman. Their night clothes were burning, their hair
 burned from their heads and their
 bodies bIistered. They were carried
 to the street and taken to hospital
 in q serious condition. Their rescuers
 suffered severely from the smoke and
 intense heat. A few minutes later
 three more children, all of them uncon-
 scious, were found in the upper part
 of the building and carried out by the
 firemen. As the rescuers rushed to
 the street, three other firemen. each
 bearing the dead body of child, came down the fire escape from the fifth floor. The body of Mrs Glass was re-. covered soon afterwards.
 While the fire was at it's height fires were discovered in a hardware store in Graham avenue and in Grand street tailor shop, within few blocks Of the tenement .'house fire. These
 were quickly subdued without serious loss.