The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-04
Unidentified man about 30 years of

Unidentified man about 30 years of age.
 The injured:.
 Robert Sampson, a fireman, was out by glass about the head and taken to hospital.
 HuIada Momad and Nicholas Bar dalio were overcome by smoke and suffered severe burns.
 An unidentified girl four years of age was overcome by smoke.
 Dominick Filiberti suffered frac- lures of several ribs.
 The only member of the Travisano family who survived was Minnie. aged fifteen, who left home last night to visit
 There were about thirty families. mostly Italians, in the tenement and policemen and fremen rescued many by ladders and by swinging them across from windows to neighboring buildings. . Several babies were thrown from windows and caught by hremen who were standing on the extension ladders.
 The street floor of the building was occupied by undertaking rooms and a restaurant, while a barber occupied the basement. The fire started in the bottom of an air shaft and was dis covered by Patrick Monks, . watch man in the undertaking rooms. Monks ran up stairs and awakened MT. ana Mra Mcdonald and their four children who escaped. Monks then while the railways were blazing and filled with smoke, rapped on the doors of the apartments up to the third floor. awak- sned the occupants and then turned in . Ire alarm.
 Most of the occupants of the tene- ment were asleep when the fire be- gan and many of them were overcome before awakening. Policemen Riley and Gallagher obtained access to the upper floors by climbing to the roof of an adjoining structure and creep ing along a cornice to the rooms of an apartment occupied by Attila Pasifo who, with his wife and son. Louis, aged 2, were taken out of the window and carried along the cornice to the adjoining building thence to the street.
 Two other children of Pasifo were found unconscious on the floor. but were rescued by hremen. Evelyn Pas down the stairs and later her charred body was found on the stairway. A fireman found Miss Mulanna Aranol unconscious in her rooms on the fourth l floor and attempted to carry her down | ladder to q window. but was himself | overcome. Other fremen saved them both.
 Three babies were taken from the rooms on the fourth floor by thrilling | work of two dremen. Standing on ar | extension ladder outside the windows
 Robert Nelson. one of the fremen | caught two of the children as they | were thrown to him by other fremer | from the windows As Nelson started | down the ladder with the two babies l In his arms, the man again appeared l at the window and called out: T havt | got another baby here; catch it." Be- | fore Nelson could reply the man threw the baby out of the window and Mel. | son. with two babies already in his arms. managed to catch the third and carried them all down the ladder tc l the street.
 The work of rescue was delayed by | the falling of three fremen from the second and third floors when theil sealing ladders slipped off the win dow sIlls. Bremen say the fire escape in the rear was clogged with refuse which had to be cleared on before | they could mount.
 The Travisano family evidently were | trapped in their rooms on the top floor. The bodies of the parents were | found lying on a couch, while the son and daughter were kneeling on the floor with their faces in their moth CTS lap and seemed to have sufrocatet while praying. The members of the Filberti, Gruppi and Placia families were found in their beds on the fifth 1 floor where they had been overcome by smoke while asleep. l The belief that the Ire was the wori | of a group of blackmailers arose from the statement of a barber. who said he had received a black hand letter about | two months ago. demanding the pay. ment of about $200.