The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-23
FIFTEEN PERSONS
PERISH in FIRE

IE1OSH In flk
New York, Oct. 2s.-Two separat.
inquiries were launched today into the
origin Of the fire early Sunday II
which fifteen lives were lost, seven
teen injured and one hundred and fit,
made homeless. The fire is though,
to have started under the main stair.
way OF a five-story double tenement
structure. Six members of one fam.
ny We're burned to death and five OF
six members Of another perished.
New York. Oct. 22.-Fifteen per-
sons, most of them children, lost their
lives early today in a fire, believed
by city officials to be the work of q
pyromaniac. The flames swept with
murderous suddenness from cellar to
attic Of five story brick tenement
at Lexington avenue and One Hun
dred and Tenth street in the thickly
populated East Side.
The blaze apparently started in a
baby carriage under the stairs in the
lower hall under almost identical cir
cumstances as the recent incendiary
fire In an upper West Side apartment
house, which resulted in seven deaths.
So quickly did the flames spread
through the building that number
of the dead were found in bed, burned
or suffocated without the slightest
opportunity to escape.
Nathan Silver and four Of his chill
dren were among the victims. Mr..
and Mrs. Abraham Matilsky and Sid
ney and Gathering Sugarman, broth
~ and sister of Mrs. Matilsky, also
Lerished.
Shortly after l o'clock this morn
ing City Marshal Joseph Lazarus,
while on his way home, saw smoke
issuing from the hallway Of the build
ing. He ran to the next corner and
turned in an alarm. When he re-
turned the whole building. the ground
floor Of which is occupied by stores.
was mass Of flames and exit by the
stairway was cut off. Most of the
persons on the second floor succeeded
In making their way down the fire
escapes, but those on the upper floors
had to battle through smoke and
flames pouring out Of the windows.
Several tenants perched on upper
story windows threatened TO jump
but were prevailed upon by fremen
10 rssaaisr artil~ ~la<lders -eould~ hsi irais.
ed. One aged woman, Mrs. Mary In
glass, disrsgsricd the warning and
leaped from the fourth floor, receiv-
ing injuries which caused her death
tonight.
While the fremen were at work on
the second floor and preparing to
fight their way to the one above, the
third floor collapsed, but not before
a warning roar had sent the firemen
to safety.
Nearly a score of persons owe their
lives to II year old James O'Donnell,
a mechanics helper, who was eating
at restaurant in the vicinity when
he heard a woman cry for help. Run
ming to the street he saw the woman
leaning out Of the window on the Sec
ond floor of the burning tenement
with two small children by her side.
The young man clambered on the
sill of store window, jumped and
caught a swinging sign and pulled
himself up to the window. He led the
three frightened tenants down the
fire escape to the street and then rac7
ed back and rescued the woman's 1S
months old baby, who was asleep In
q crib. Later he went to the roof
Of an adjoining building and by
throwing board over the alley space
made it possible for a number Of
tenants, who seemingly had been cut
off from escape on the roof to cross
in safety.
William Corners, %, who lives with
his mother across the street from the
burned building, also rescued num-
ber Of persons from the third floor,
including Mrs. Silver. He. was badly
burned when q gust Of flame burned
tho clothing from his back as he was
walking down the fire escape with a
woman In his arms,