Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-11-27
ia PERSONS PERISH
Fatal Tenement HOnSe Fire Takes
Place In New York.
ALL DEAD WERE ITALIANS

- er on Top Floor Where Terror-S9rick'
en- People Had Been Driven by the
FIames--Revenee Of eurssrA.
New York, Nov %. Thirteen per
sons lost their lives ana several others
were Injured early Monday in a tene-
ment house fire al One Hundred and
Niath street and Second avenue.
All the dead were, Italians. Sever
\ al OF the thirteen were children.
The bodies were found huddIcd to-
4 gether III rooms on the top floor Of
the building where The tcrrOr.stricken
\ people had been driven by the flames
which rushed up from the lower floors.
They had succumbcd before they could
reach windows which led 10 the fire
escapes. Some mad been enyeloped
|H IN the flames and burned alive, Others,
overcome by sHCko, were spared the
ngonies Of death In the flames.
Work Of Incendlaries.
That the ia al fire was the work of
Hncendlarles VINO sought revenge, Is
the opinion OF the police and fremen
who made the first hasty examination.
Three weeks ago three Italians were
cnught In the act Of attempting to
sob safe In the saloon OF Giuseppe
CudauO, on the ground floor. The
safe contained Soyer 81, 900. which the
ealoonkeepers friends had withdrawn
from banks during the money panic,
The wOuld-be robbers were arrest
cd, and are now awaiting trial.
Tile FIRE OF Monday started In Gu
aano's saloon, and the police believe
That Il may have been the work of
t Friends OF the prisoners, who took
ehis means OF sQuarng the account
NTH the saloonkeeper.
En- Fled for Their Lives.
Cudano discovered The fire when he
went down to open his place OF bus.
iness early Monday morning. As he
opened the door, he was met by a
rush OF flames aud without waiting II
moment 10 investigate, dashed up the
stairs to the tenements above, cry.
ing out for tho occupants OF the build.
Ans 10 run for their lives.
When ne reached the rooms oCcu.
pied by his own family. he burst in
aho door and selling his young son.
Domonio In his arms, told Mrs Gu
dano and other members Of tho family
20 follow him.
Cudano and the boy managed TO find
their way down The stairs TO the
alreet. but before the women could get
Through, the flames had cut on exit
by that avenue II is supposed that
Mrs Cudano and the other Children
seousht safety In the upper part Of the
Building.
Just what happened In the burning
building before the fire was checked
never will be known.
Fire Spread Rapidly.
{ Subsequently tho danes spread. and
almost before the men arrived the
whole building was furnace and II
was impossible for any one 10 enter.
anyen the cries Of The REonlued women
and children were drowned by the
Goar OF and crackle Of the flames,
Not = single person was seen to.RlN
pear nj any 81 the windows OF the
hla1ing building with the exception OF
Ahose ou the second door from which
eeyeral persons reached are escapes
and were rescued The reason 70,
ahls was explained when, after the
alAmes had bccu pa ly checked, fire
men fought their Nay through thu
smoke 10 the upper hoors There
they came upon pie ~ dead where
fhey had fallen Victims 80 No rush
nj flames Or smoke, even before they
\. had a chance % attempt 10 save
khemselyes
Heroic MctNtr.
m one 81 we leaps ,tc n.. i's
eoVerea = wt.e3a who had made ony
aas desperate effort 60 save The hi,
~ her baby even whcn she knew taa.
ehe herself was doonied 10 a horrioi,
aealh. she had folded her arms usat
a. around the little one and then hut
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eas s leg lAsi 4 taeealsa; Ihs
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