The sun., 1910-05-16
ENTIRE FAMILY DEAD IN FIRE
PETRO LARNICO. WIFE AND TWO
CHILDREN LOSE LIVES.

Ineendiary BlaHs IN q WILLIAMSBURG FIre
Trap HAS Fatal Results s-PoIlee and
FiPemen Have q Demcult Task 60
Rescue Other Tenants IN the House.
A family Of Italians died early yester-
day morning in a tenement house nre
at lee Hamburg avenue. Williamsburg
The victims were Petro larnico. 20 years
old: his wife. Rosie. aged 81. and two
children. Jennie. y years. and Bessie. g.
They occupied two front rooms on one
side Of the upper floor OF the building
and were probably suffocted by smoke
before the flames reached them
The building was a four story frame
with a vacant store on one aide OF the
ground floor. On the other side Morris
| Fuchs had a candy and tobacco store
He lived on one side Of the floor above
with HE wife and four small children.
ranging in age from 70 I? years On the
opposite side lived the family Of Joseph
Prainco. while the next floor was ten
anted by families of Antonio Palaninni
and Tony CinguemSni. and on the fourth
/
the family Of Giro FromEeno The house
is nest to one on the corner OF Suydam
street.
The fire started in the lower hall near
/ the foot of the stairs and was probably
Of incendiary origin Il was discovered
by some citizens who were passing At 2.Ss
A. ". and when they raised an alarm IL
brought Policeman Quinn Of the Ham,
burg avenue station.
Meanwhile some of the inmates of the
building were aroused by the cry Of fire
The men began 20 discharge rsvolvers
from front windows 20 attrac, attention
Sergt Manse!l and Policemen Donnelly
and swanson were at Bushwick Park
4 a block away. when they heard the noise
They had to dodge the b ullets a. they
ran 10 the place by duckinR into doorvayH
( The three policemen with Quinn. who
had turned In an alarm, FASTENED 70 the
building Although the hall and stairs
were ablazs the four men dashed through
the fire and smoke 20 the upper fioors
They dragged the tenants on the second
floor 10 the small cornioe over the stores
adioining buildings Meantime Police
Captain baker. who was about 10 retire
20 hts bedroom in the police stltion Two
! blocks away. rushed 90 the place IN his
slippers and without hat or coat tie
shouted for th. dozen policemen In the
dormitOTy 10 follow him
The Names had hurst from front and
rear Windows and the four policemen who
had fret entered the house we're on the
third floor helping the tenants TO the rear
fire escape Capt Becker and his reserves
got into the building through an adloin-
ing house aud by wav u the roof Tue
ciutain and bis men got down To the top
fiuor aud dragged the members Of the
FronzenO family down to the nOOr beloN
and out 90 the rear FIRE esCapes
Nv that time Engn" -, stationed
two blocks away, was on the scene ana
the hremen quickly "a SD ladders in front
ny going through an alley On Suydam
street they got another ladder into the
yard and placed u against The third Hoor
fir~ escape. The flames spread uu 70
the third floor and the heat VAS 30 intense
aud the smoke 30 stliiiiDR that ths police
gave way 90 the fremen Who helped the
people on the fire ESCAPES down the lad
ders
Il vas thought that in the rush 10 get
out the larnic0 family had been rescued,
Tenants m the house told policemen and
firsmen that they had seen lArniCO WITH
ms wife and children gong down ihe
stairs and OIt upon the store rOrnlce
70 an adjoining building Satisfied az
these statements that every one ot iaa
occupants were accounted FOR. the hre-
men kept the blays confined 10 the hOuS@
where ii started The building which was
very old burned Ike Under and when the
ire wss sHtinhguished shortly after
Z O'Clock the fremen ~ntered to inver'
tiRats the amount - damage
While he fremen were gong through
the rooms which the lArnicO family
occupied they discovered n" fath-f
lytnR 0n the fOor naar he front window
ne was dead and the body was badly
burned Ia an adjoining bedroom me
fremen found Mrs lArnico with hei
Youngest child clasped IN her arms and
10 her hand was the burned paTt ot =
religious figure ss Il indicating mat Iht
woman was eEgaEed IN praying when
death overlook her and her child IhS
other child Wa fOlId dead under the
he'd wher. she had evidently crawied
N was the opinion u The hremen that
IArnico mad probably tTied 10 reach the
front window 20 shout for help Wheu he
and hts family sucCuuibed 10 the smoke
, and Iater we're burned The bodies were
, identified by relatives and taken 10 ths
Hamburg avenue police station
After the fire nsighbOrS circulated
stories 20 the effect that several attempts
, had i.-en made 10 set the house On hre
; I Mrs Mary Rinni. the owner. who lives
| In the adjoining house, a. i2 Hamburg
ayenua. told the police that every pre-
4 caution had always bs-n taken to MAKE
, sure that the trout door was locked a
niRht When the pOlicemen came ths
. front door was open. The hre marsha
yvaa notified