New-York tribune., 1908-10-05
NINE FOUND DEAD
In BURNED TENEMENT
OF FIVE DIE IN
ROOM TOGETHER.

Police Suspect Incendiary Work at
Early Morning Blaze IN
Mulberry Street.
Nine persons burned to death and SIX
others were injured in fire which started in
tenement house at No II Mulberry street early
this morning One Of the men who was in
jured in the wild panic which followed the dis
covery Of the blaze viii probably die num-
Der Of the tenants in the building over
come by smoke IN the upper floors Of the struct-
ure destroyed
IDENTIFIED DEAD
BARROTTI. Dominic. twenty years old
FTCCELLI Pietro. thirty years old
FUCCELLI Marie twenty-seven years old.
FUCCELLL --. boy. years old
FJCCELLL --. girl. Eve years old
FUCCELLI . boy. three years
UNIDENTIFIED DEAD
Man. thirty-hvs years old
Man. twenty years old.
Boy fifteen years old
Ffremen found TIE bodies Of Mr. and Mrs
Dominic FucceIH and their three children on
Of three unknown men were found in another
room that floor
Only one alarm was turned in for the fire.
and it was under control after an hours work
by the fremen. The cause Of the blaze is un-
known but the police and the FIRE marshal sIls-
pect that it was Of incendiary origin and are
investigating.
hor ar7%fr Of H.
covered the fire while passing the place. and
rushed through the hall arousing the sleeping
tenants. He was overcome by the dense sr1oks
after he had succeeded in getting TO the second
floor.
His cries. however. brought the excited ItaI
ians from their beds and wild rush was MAIDS
for the fire escapes and the lower hall.
Several women jumped from the fire escapes
without being hurt seriously. an improvised
life net had been made Of a blanket. Several
children were also dropped into it as bystanders
held 1t taut.
Frank Maguccio. eighteen years old, was
found unconscious and badly burned in one
Of the rooms on che third floor. He was taken
to St Gregory's Hospital. where it was said
that he would probably die His bpotfer Je-.
seph twenty-five years old. was hurt by Jump
ing from window. and Mrs Masliccio. their
mother jumped from window on the second
floor and broke her legs
AnniIis Scatino a year-oId baby. was found
in the hallway by TIE fremen unconscious and
burned about the head and body.
His parents. it is believed. were burned to
death in the fire.
Ambulances from st. Gregory's and the Hud-
son Street hospitals were called. and the
geons dressed the wounds Of those injured
Some Of the injured tenants were treated BY
private physicians in the neighborhood. The
reserves from the Mulberry street station were
at the fire almost quickly the iremen. and
they had difficulty in preventing some of the
excited tenants from rushing back into the
building
The fremen found the fire escapes OF the
burned building Uttered with household mate
rails and in many cases the windows had been
partly boarded up by the tenants to prevent
their small children from climbing out en- the
fire escapes
The Railways OF the building were IN dark
ness and several other violations OF the build
ing laws made the place a fire trap.
The Italians in the adjoining houses took
various parts of their household furniture with
them into the street and the widest sort OF sx-
citement prevailed when the police ordered
tbar, outside og +ba lines
For the first few moments the IRE was most
spectacular Joseph Racconi. OF No. 90 Baxter
street. was with Lentina, and he told the police
that the odor of burning kerosene in the hallway
was strong
Breaking in the door Of the front apartment
on the second floor. RacconI got to the fire ss-
cape. The halls and stairways were 4blaze and
filed with smoke making escape impossible.
Both men got into the rooms and got many
people out They passed number Of women
and children down the fire escapes TO the street
COLD HUNTERS TOO LITE.