The Irish standard., 1909-03-06
TEN DIE IN A FIRE
Tenement House Blaze H.
New York.
FIREMEN IN DARING RESCUEs
Policemen Also Aid In Cutting Down
Death Toll Of Conflagration-onIy
One Member Of italian Family
Spared by Flames.

oPdVSO ny TIdHSSs
New York, Mar. 4.-Cut off from
escape by burning stairway. ten per.
sons persisted yesterday in a five-story
tenement house at 372-4 Seventh ave.
nue.. The victims, who were all Ital
ians, with the exception of an uniden'
titled Frenchman, ranged IN age from
60 years to an infant girl of five. Five
persons. including policeman. who
was cut by flying glass. and a male
child about year old. were injured
and taken to hospitals. 1t was at first
believed that the blaze was incendiary,
following black hand" Matchmaking
letter which an occupant of the build.
ing received several months ago.
The fire marshals and police after
Investigating reported that the fire
was not of incendiary origin. -
Only Ono Of Family Spared.
The only member of the Travisano
family who survived the fire was Min.
ME. aged Is, who left home to visit
friends.
There we're about 80 families, most.
ly Italians. In the tenement house, and
the policemen and flremen rescued
many of them by ladders and by
swinging them across from windows
to neighboring buildings. Several ba.
bies were thrown from the windows
and caught by f1remen who were
standing on the extension ladders.
The street floor of the building was
occupied by the undertaking rooms OF
Patrick Mcdonald and the Lincoln res.
taurant. while Antonio Urso barber,
occupied the basement
Flames Start In Air.0haft. .s.
The fire started in the bottom of an
air-shaft and was discovered by Pat.
rick Monks. a Waterman in tho under.
taking rooms. Monks ran upstairs
and awakened the Mcdonald family
and Mr. and Mrs. Mcdonald and their
four children we're passed across,
narrow alleyway to the windows of an
adjoining building, whence they es.
capped. Monks then returned to the
burning building, the Railways OF
which were then blazing and filled
with smoke. He raped on the doors
of the apartments up to the third floor,
awakened the occupants, and then
turned In fire alarm.
Policemen Are Heroes. If"
Most of the occupants of the tene.
ment were asleep when tho fire began
and many of them were overcome be.
fore awakening.
Policemen Reilly and Gallagher OBJ.
tanned access to the upper floors of
the burning building by climbing to
the roof Of an adjoining structure and
creeping along a cornice to the rooms
Of an apartment occupied by Attila
Pasifo, who, with his wife and SON
Louis, aged seven. were taken out OF
the window and carried along the cor.
nice to the adjoining building. whence
the firemen took them to the street.
FIremen Rescue Two Babes.
Two other children of Pasifo were
found unconscious on the floor but
we're rescued by firemen. Evelyn Pas.
ITO. aged four years, attempted to run
down the stairs and later her ciarred
body was found on the stairway. A
fireman found Mrs. Mulana Aranot I'm.
conscious in her rooms on the fourth
floor and attempted to carry her down
a ladder to window. but was him.
self overcome. Other flremen saved
them both. .t
Three babies we're taken from the
rooms on the fourth floor by thrilling
work Of two f1remen Fl.
Catches Children In Arms. =.
Standing on an extension ladder out.
side the windows, Robert Nelson, one
OF the flremen, caught two Of the chill.
dren as they were thrown to him by
another fireman from the windows.
AS Nelson started down the ladder
with the two babies in his arms the
man again appeared at the window
and called out: II have got another
baby here; catch it," Before Nelson
could reply the man threw the baby
out of the window. and Nelson, with
two babies already in his arms, man.
aged to catch the third, and carried
them all down the ladder to the street.
Rescue Work Delayed.
All but two of those who persisted
in the fire were occupants of tene.
ments on the upper floor of the burned
building. Apparently they we're over.
come by smoke before they could
escape to the windows in the front
of the house. The flames, passing up
the Railways, burned out the rear OF
the building, but the apartments in
the front were not badly damaged.
The work of rescue was delayed by
the falling of three flremen from the
second and third floors when their
scaling ladders slipped off the sill OF
q window.
Sixty Trapped by Blaze. ="
Chicago, Mar. 4.-One man barely
escaped suffocation, more than go per.
sons were hemmed in by smoke but
later we're driven to the street in
panic, and traffic in Randolph street
was temporarily stopped yesterday
during fire in the Adelphia hotel, 81
and 60 Rando1Dh street H