Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-03-15
10 WERE CAUGHT in
GOTHAM FIRE TRAP
Tenement Burned Like finder
and Fire Escapes We're Clog
ged With Rubbisf,
DEATH HID high cAsNlvAl.

n:v Associated Press,

fI;v Associated Press.)
NEW YORK. Marcel: 1l-Ninetcci:
persons We're burned TO death iii a fire.
which destroyed the five story tenc-
inert house at 1O5 Allen street, early
today. Mere than forty were in;ure.
and only 8, .cw Of the slecl,n. inmates
ESCAPED ,n'u,rt
SeNcl"i CT lhosetwho persisted wrrc
roasted to death il plain view OF tl,ous.
ands in the streets.
Coroner GCllenkrarZe declared, az
,c,. an investigator. that he has rssa-
son TO believe the blaze was the work
Of a.. inceneiary
Re issued subpcenas for The fire mar
shall tenement house and building IN
sp"ctors and health and nalice officials
to appear before him N; the inquest.
The fire started ir the basement and
spread With frightfnl rapi.lt;s 70 tic
roof
Halls and Exits impassahle.
Tho victims were caught in traps t.f
flames. the halls and '2Sits being rem
delod impossible in few minutes az.
ter the blaze started.
The building was ohe of the usual
crowded tenements,. and the disastc:.
was The worst in the hist6cy az tho,
East Side. The district attorneys or
fee has begun an Investigation in an
effort to. place the blame for the great
loss OF life
Chief Croker. Of the ire department
asserts 1h"' the police ard tho tc7.c-
nent house departments are to ,.ama'
for the violations of The fire ascape
laws
Tying to Shift Blame.
me tenement house department Of
'icials. however. say that tie Blame Is
on the Shoulders Of the fire co.nmis-
sicncr or the nineteen dead. three
bodies those of a boy a:d two GIRLS re-
main unidentified
he Identified dead are:
RACHEL. SOL ONION. as years.
JACOB SOLOMON. 1G years.
ISAAC SOLOMON, Is years.
JESSE COHEN, Is wears.
GERsHoNs FUCHS. 80 wears.
ROSE WIENER, % years.
SANDER WIENER, 4 years.
SARAH KILN, so wears.
BELLA. ZEIDLER. 80 years.
HARRY tzEIDLER, II years.
RACHEL ZEIDLER, - years.
HARRIS lEIDLER. 40 years.
IDA MUsKOWITZ. 10 years.
HARRY KAUFMAN. 10 years.
ROSE MILLER, 4 years.
MORRIS MILLER s. months Old.
Five at First Unidentified.
Or The five unidentified bodies on..
was recognized this afternoon as hat
}of Harris Zeidler. 40. ant: another is
thought to be that Of Rachel Zeidle:.
aged u. 1t is possible that the other
| TIN &c bodies never will be identified.
apparently every, person known tc
have been il. the house when the .i:e.
started has been accounted for and it
rs believed that these three victims
were visitors with some cf the FAINT.
lies who afveas there.
The bodies were. SO badly burned
that they arc practically unrecosniz-
able The crowded condition Of th,
mrs escanes in the rear in the tene.,
mrnt house was largely responsible.
Tor scme of the deaths and injuries
among its population, Which appeared
Ito be 200 Souls. "
Scene Heart Reneine.
helscenes were heart pending The,
/ ire started in the basement occupied
icy isaac Davis. his wife ind three CHI,
|dren. When Davis reached his home
)earrly this morning and went into his
store On the same iicor he + say -
! kerosene lamp in51he rear explode. He
alWoke his wife and beth tried 10 put.
Icut the flaming amp. but without s,,c-
less 4 policeman who heard the cay
!! OF alarm I, n rushed to the scern ana evnry
! eficrt was made 10 rouse the slccpin:.
tpeople.
Meantime the flames had spread
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