The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-03
Many Thrilling Rescues Made During a Tenement House Blaze Early
 This Morning.
len Lives We're Lost and Many Others
 Fatally Burned.
Prompt and Effective Work by Police and Firemen Saved at Least 50 Others Ten Bremen and Six Policemen Badly Injured Blaze Was Incendiary and is AScribed to the YiEdictiveneSS of the Black Hand - Property Loss is Only About S5,090.
Special from United Press.)

1 Special from United Press) | New York, March 3.-The depreda. | tiors of the so-called Black Hand. the | Italian Terrorist Society. that stops al nothing to enforce it's bIackmail. reach. | ed a climax to-day when members fired a big double decked tenement al
 314 Seventh avenue. causing the death of ten persons and the probable fatal injury of half a dozen more But for heroic work on the part of the New
 York firemen and police the death list must have reached fifty.
 Not in years has this city witnessed rescues of so sensational a character as those that marked to-day's fire po1ce and hremen -vieing with each
 other in risking their own lives to res
 cue other from the flames. The prop
 erty loss by the fire will hardly exceed
 S5,0OO. The dead include Joseph Ire
 daughter. Lena. 21: Rosalie Filadetti
 50; Constance Gruppi. 5S: Preside and
 Rosa ProvenZia: Mary Pisoppi, 5 and
 an unidentified Frenchman and woman
 The fire started in the basement of
 the structure which is twelve stories
 in height and spread up the air-shaft
 which had been flooded with oil On
 the ground floor of the building is Mo
 Donald'S undertaking establishment
 while in the apartments overhead lived
 thirty families. Patrick Monks. care
 taker in the undertaker's was awaken ed by the crackle of the burning wood
 ana gave the alarm He then started
 up through the building to arouse the
 sleeping families. only to be driven
 back by the fire and smoke. He had to take to the windows and made his escape across a four inch cornice to an
 adjoining building.
 In the meanwhile someone had turn ed in an alarm of fire and notified the police station just around the corner. A relief platoon was lined up on the .noor Of the station and under com mand of Lieutenant Day they were hurried to the scene and started in getting the frightened occupants out The firemen were delayed in reaching the scene and it was some minutes be- fore truck was at hand. Every win dow in the building was filled with frightened men. women and children started and the firemen used their scaling ladder to good advantage, bringing the inmates down even as the fire seemed about to cut them off
 While the fremen were working at the front. the police were attacking the rear. Here the fire-escapes were seen to be useless. piled with rubbish. So Policemen Reilly. Gallagher and Gentry went through the adjoining house to the third floor and while he swung himself across by the shut terS and into the window, passing out a man and two children whom he found unconscious. Truck A swung an extension ladder to the fifth floor and before it could be placed in posi- tion. Bremen Clark and Mccarthy ran up and jumped across through the flames and almost immediately reap peared carrying two unconscious wom- en who were passed to the street where from three hospitals were waiting. Mccarthy then rescued two small children. As he was passing down the ladder a man appeared at the third story window with a baby. Here, take this one too,' he shouted, ana tossed the child to the fireman who caught it and passed it on down to the street.
 Numerous other rescues fully as sen sational were made. The result was that ten firemen and six policemen were badly burned. Seventeen persons caught on the fourth and fifth floors jumped into life nets held by the fire men and were saved unhurt. As soon as it was certain that all who could be had been saved. the f1renen made short work of extinguishing the fire and then a search for the bodies be- gan.
 Most of them were kneeling in an attitude of prayer but all had been merciful1y supplied by smoke before the flames reached them. The police ly of those responsible for the fire.
 In McDona1d's undertaking estab- lfshment were the bodies of pr. Mey- CTS. the French physician who killed himself yesterday and of May Kolich. formerly known as the Queen of the Tenderloin" who dropped dead yester- day. The bodies were unscathed.