New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-11-24
FIVE DEAD In FIRE
DOZEN MORE SUFFER
SETERE INJURIES.
Men Desert UOmen and Chill
dren IN East Nc7c York
Tenement House Blaze.

Five persons were burned 10 dedtn
and a dozen or more seriously injured
in fire which broke out shortly before
IL o'clock last night in four story
frame building at No. 1890 Herkimer
street East New York. At an early
hour this morning the fremen were
searching the ruins for more bodies.
The house was occupied by a dozen
Italian families The list of dead and
injured follows:
THB DEAD.
CACcAzELLn Mrs Joseph. thirty years old;
her two children aged two and half
Unidentihed woman. about forty years Old found
with the body Of child in her arms
THE INJURED.
BERNARDO MRS. Magdalene thirty-ive
years old; her seven-months- old baby and
her two sons Francesca and Pietro. all
badly burned about the face and body; Bush
wick Hospital.
CACCAZE1I.LO. Joseph. forty-two years old. and
his two sons. Peter and Ziro. badly burned
about the hands and face: Bradford street
Hospital
MONFoRTE. Mrs Rose. thirty-hys years old:
about face and hands: ST. Mary's Hospital
The origin of the fire is not known.
but il is supposed TO have started on
the first floor. The flames were well
under way before the sleeping families
were aroused. Sergeant John TOmfort.
of the Brownsville station. was about a
block from Herkimer and Junius streets
when he heard screams from the burn
ing building. He turned in an alarm OF
fire and rushed to the building. but by
made such progress that the stairways
had been cut off and the frightened men
and women inside were rushing to the
fire escapes.
DESERTED BY MEN
Men and boys fought with the women
for places at the windows, and when the
final reckoning was taken il was found
that only the bodies of women and
babies were in the ruins. They had
been deserted by the only ones who were
able TO assist them.
BY the time the firemen arrived the
building was mass of flames. but lad
ders were quickly raised and the work
o: rescue was begun. Those on the first
and second floors were taken out. bur
the task of getting the occupants from
the upper floors was more difficult.
Mrs. Rose MOnforte, driven frantic by
the flames which were creeping UP be-
hind her, appeared at the window of her
rooms on the third floor and, without
waiting for the firemen to raise the lad
der, threw her year-old baby TO the
ground, Harry Miner. who is employed
as a special policeman at the Broadway
Theatre. caught the baby.
fFhP mother then bYrrIad harSaIF o,,t
the window. She struck on the extension
r. of of the store on the ground floor and
fell into the arms of the fremen below.
James Lafelle. his wife and their five
children were rescued by the fremen.
unharmed.
PasquellO Caruso. his wife and two
children and Mrs. Magdalene Bernardo
and three little children, who lived on
the third floor. were taken out of the
building by firemen from trucks 81 and
40. severely burned.
THEATRE CROWD WATCHES
The flames. which shot high into the
sky and the screams of the occupants of
the burning building brought crowd of
people TO the scene. The performance at
1 the NTOtudul I0tdITet which lS near DNt
had closed only a few minutes before the
fire started. and those who had spent the
evening there Joined the throngs and as
sisted as far as possible in caring for the
wounded as they were carried out.
Ambulances were summoned from 81.
Mary's. Bradford and Bushwick hospi-
tails and the injured were carried away
Before the ambulances arrived Arthur
L Brophy. a fire marshal. directed the
work of first aid TO the injured, assisted
by spectators
The building. which was destroyed,
was said to have been owned by the
Long Island Railroad Company. IL
stood alone, and there was little dan
ger of the fire spreading. II is esti-
mated that about fifty persons lived
there. and until search of the ruins
can be made II is not certain that the
loss of life will not he greater than five.
The excitabe foreigners who managed
to escape were unable To give any ac-
count of the fire. and nothing could be
learned from them as 20 how many per-
ished in the flames or were missing.