Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-25
Died Before They Could Make
Way to Windows Leading
To Fire Escapes.
WAS WORK OF lNCENDlARIEs.
New York Police and Firemcn Believe
lt Case of Revenge, Victims MI
Being Italians

New York. Nov. 25.-Thirtecn persons
lost their lives and several others were
injured early today In a tenement house
fire at 100 Eighth street and Second
avenue. All the dead were Italians.
Seven OF the 10 were children. The
bodies were found huddlcd together IN
rooms on tho top floor OF the four-story
building. where the tcrror-stricken peo-
pie had been driven by the flames.
which rushed up from the lower floors.
They died before they could reach vim
dows which led to FIRE escapes Some
had been enveloped en- the flames and
burned alive. Others. overcome by
smoke. were spared the agoulcs OF
death by the names
WAS FOR REVENGE.
That the fatal fire was the work OF
incendiaries who sought revenge is the
opinion Of the police and nremen, who
mako the first hasty examination. Three
weeks ago three Italians were caught
IN the act Of trying 20 rob safe in the
saloon Of Giuseppe CudanO, on the
ground noor The safe contained over
S2ooe. which the saloonkeeper' friends
had Withdrawn from banks during the
money panic.
Tho would-be robbers were arrested
and are now awaiting trial
The fire Of today started in CudanO's
saloen. and the police believe IL may
have been the work OF the friends OF
the prisoners, who took this means of
squarius the account with the soloon-
keeper.
Cudono discovered tho fire when he
went down 90 open his place OF business
aNa HH.H. O.
door nc was mot by rush OF flames.
He dashed up the stairs to the tene-
mcnts above. crying out for the Occu-
pants of the building TO run Tor their
lives. When he reached the rooms oc-
cupied by his own family he burst ia
the door and seizing his young Son hi
monio On hts arms told Mrs. CudanO
and other members Of the family 20 fol-
low. Cudouo and the boy managed 20
find their way down stairs TO the street.
but before the woman could get
through the flames had cut OF the exit
by that avenue. Ii Is supposed that
Mrs Cudano and the other children
sought safety In the upper part OF the
building
WHAT HAPPENED UNKNOWN.
Just What happened IN the burning
building before the fire was checked
never viii be known. So quickly did
the IlAlnHN NINFdQ NAtAA hIiiNNHN UfiN'A"
tho hremen arrived the whole building
was a furnace and g was impossible
for anyone 10 enter. Even the cries
OF tho agonized women and children
were drowned by the roar and crackle
OF the flames the Kissing engines and
the frantic habbling crowd which press
ed as closely a. possible 10 the fire
lines. Not a single person was sees
10 appear at any OF the windows at
tho blazing building with the exception
OF those on the second floor. from
which several persons reached the hre
escape and were rescued. The reason
for this was explained when. after
the flames had been partially controll-
ed. drcmen fought their way through
the smoke 10 the upper hoor
There they came on piles or dead, I
where they had fallen victims to the /
rush OF flames and smoke even before /
they had a chance 90 attempt 20 save,
themselves. In one Of the heaps the f.
hremcn found a woman who had made I
one last desperate effort to save the life /.
Of hor baby even when she knew that /
she herself was doomed Co "a horrible I
death. She had folded her arms tightly 1
around the little one and then huddled /
down close % the floor. her own body /
protecting that Of the child. The moths /
er's oody was badly burned. that 81 the /
child bore scarcely a mark but Il was /
dead or suffocation. on every side % /
the mother and child the bodies OF VIC
TINS were found