South Bend news-times., 1922-10-23
CHILD VICTIMS
ARE SUFF0CATED
In BEDS
Blaze Sweeps Through Struc-
ture-Origin Points to
InCendiarism.
MANY MOVIE" RESCUES
Girl, BetrOthed. Returns to
Save Ring and Then Es-
cape Is Cut Off.

Save Ring and Then Is
cape Is Cut Off.
NEW YORK oct. % -lBy A.
P)-Fftecn persons, most of them
children. lost their lives early today
IN a fire, believed ay city officials 20
be the work Of a pyr0maniac The
flames swept with murderous sud
denness from cellar 90 attic on a
fve-story brick tenement az Lexing-
ton av. and 11oth 81. in the th.ckly
populated east side.
The blaze apparently started in
baby carriage under the stairs IN
the lower hall under almost identical
circumstances ae the recent incen-
diary In an upper west side apart
ment which resulted in seven deaths.
SO quickly did the flames shoot
through the building that a number
OF dead We're found ln bed or suffo-
Gated without the ghtest opDortu-
nifty TO escape.
Nathan Silver and four OF his
children were among the victims.
Mrs. Silver escaped. Nr. and Mrs
Abraham Maulskv and Sidney and
Catherine Slgarman. brother and
sister of Mrs. Mauisky. also per-
ished
shortly after ] O'Clock this morn
ing Joseph Lazarus, while on his
way home. saw smoke issuing from
the hallway of the building He ran
10 the next corner and turned In an
alarm. When he ,returne- the
whole building. the ground floor ~
which is occupied 10y stores. was
mass Of flames and exit 10y the stair
ways was cut of Most Of the per-
sons on the second floor succeeded
in making their way down the fire
pes. but those on the upper
/ floors had 10 battle through smoke
and flames pouring out Of the win
dows
Threaten to Jump.
Several tenants percned on upper
story windows threatened 10 Jump.
but were prevailed upon by fremen
10 remain until ladders could be
raised 10 take them down. one
aged woman. Mrs Mari Inglass dis
regarded the warming and leaped
from the fourth window. rece.vins
injuries which caused her death to-
night
While the fremen were 90 work
on the second floor and preparing %
fight their way 10 the one above
the third floor collapsed but not
before warning roar mad sent the
fremen to safety.
Nearly score II persons owe
their uQs to 17-year-oId James
O'DonneI. mechanics helper. who
was eating AZ a restaurant in the
vicinity when ne heard woman cry
for help. Running 20 the street he
saw the woman leaning out of
window Of the second floor OF the
burning tenement with two small
children 10y her side. The young
man clambered on the sill of a
store window Jumped and caught A
swinging sign and pulled himself up
20 the window He led the three
frightened tenants down the fire es-
cape 20 the street and then ran
back and rescued a woman's 18-
months-old baby who was asleep IN
a crib Later he went % the roof u
an adjoin.ng building and by throw
ing a board over the alley space.
made il possible FOR number OF
tenants. who seemingly had bean
cut off from escape on the roof 20
cross in safety.
William Conners. %. who lives
with his mother across the street
from the burned building, also res
cued a numb Of persons from the
third floor including Mrs. Silver
He was badly burned when a gust
OF fame burned the clothing from
his back as he was walking down
the fire eacape with a woman IN he
arms
Points TO Incendiary Origin.
Everything points 70 the IRE as
being OF .ncend.ary origin" Asst.
Dist. Atty. Hennts who Is conducting
an invests cation. said tonight Ar.
Hennis one ~ the first officials 20
visit the scene while the blaze was
IN progress. has noted the marked
similarity between today's hre and
that In the west side apartment
house several weeks ago when seven
persons were burned 20 death
Al that time in a doorway next %
the building burned a tenant report
ed that jus- before the FIRE he had
/ discovered blazing baby carriage
in tho hall He extlnglished e and
as he did 90 zaw man. unknown %
him. come from the passage 20 the
cellar He questioned the stranger
and the latter answered:
It rlet thought there might BE- a