Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-23

New York, Oct. 22.@Fourteen peC- sons. most of them children, lost their lives early today in a fire. believed by city officials to be tho work of a ypro- maniac. The flames swept with mur- derous audiences from cellar to attic Of a hve-story brick tenement at Lex inrton avenue and 10th street in the thirkly-p East Side.
 The blaze apparently started in a baoy carriage under the stairs in the lower hall under almost Identical cir cVnnstances as the recent incendiary fire ,n an upper West Side sPaEment house which resulted in seven deaths. Sc quickly did the flames shoot through the building that number of the dead were found in bed. burned or suffocate ed without the slightest opportunity 70 es- cape
 Nathan Silver and tour. of his chill d-sn were among the victims. Mrs. Sil- yer cscs ped. Mir. and Mrs. Abraham Matilsky and Sidney and Catherine Su- zarman brother and sister of Mrs Ma tlskv. also psrizhed in the flames.
 sho-tly after l o'clock this morning while on his way home. City Marshal Joseph Lazarus saw smoke issuing from the hallway Of tho building and he ran co the next corner and turned in an alarm When he returned the whole building. tho ground floor of which is occupied by stores was a mass of flames and exit by the stairways was cut of. Most of the persons on the second floor succeeded in making their way down the fire escapes, but those on tho upper floors had 10 battle through smoke and flames pouring out of the windOzs.
 Several tenants perched on upper story windows threatened 10 jump but were prevailed upon by Bremen to re- man until ladders could be raised to take them down. One aged woman, Mrs Mary Inglass. disregarded the warning and leaped from the fourth floor. receiving injuries which probably win cause her death.
 While the firemen were at work on tho secOnd floor and preparing to fight their way to the one above. the third foor collapsed. but not before a warn Ing roar had sent the firemen to safe tN
 Nearly a score of persons owe their lives Co l7-year-old James O'Donnell, a mechanics helper who was eating at a restaurant in the vicinity when he heard a woman cry for help. Running To tho street he saw the woman lean ing out of the window en the second floor of the burning tenement with two small children by her side. The young man clambered on the sill of a store window. jumped and caught swinging sign and pulled himself up to the win dow. He led the three frightened ten ants doTn tho fire escape to the stree and thu ran back and rescued the Ho' mans ls-rorth bsasf who was asleel in crib Later he went to the roo Of an adjoining building and by throw ing a board over the alley spaIyr, mad it possible for a number of tenants who seemingly had been cut off iron escape on ;he roof to cross In safety.
 William Corners. %, who lives wit his mother across the street from th burned building also rescued nun her of persons from tho third floor In ciudng Mrs Silver. He vas badt burned when gust Of fame burne the clothing from his back as he wa walking down the fire escape with woman In his arms.
 Everything points to the fire bein of incendiary origin Assistant Distric Attorney Hennis. who is conducting a investigation. said tonight. MT Henni one of the first officials to visit th scene while the blaze was in progress has noted the marked similarity bc tween today's fire and that in a We, Side apartment house several week ago. when ssvon persons were burnd { death.
 At that lime, in a doorway next Inc building burned, tenant reportc that iust before tho Are. he had di covered a blazing baby carriage In tr nan Ho oxtinguished it. and as he al sc saw man. unknown Co h.m, con from ths passage To tho cellar. T questioned tho stranger and the lattt answered:
 ''I just thought there might be q fir 70 came to see" Then he dlsal sS=Tea
 The charred frame Of a baby carrias vas found today in tho ruins of q building where fourteen persons To their lives. Fart of the investigatic hinges upon the uneanny baby carria; clues.
 Taxieab drivers. iounging In tho machines at tho curbings in the car morning hours. turned sixty-mile-a al hour samaritans during the Ire Scor nf them put their cabs at tho dispos of the police In despatching the injur, Co hospitals. Later they were con rnandeered 10 bring relatives to q rnorEuss. where tho bodies of the des were iyinE
 Ia one morFuo, Edward Pine hurri, tn tho body ot his dancee. Sarah Slivs and identified it when others had fa ed 70 do 70. A party had been plann, tho hat today, at which the engag rnent vas 70 nave been announced.
 Miss Silver survivors -ay. had on passed the danger point in tho hallws on her way Co safety. when she retur ed Co her room for her engarene ring. In moment tho flames block, tho corridor. Miss Silver jumped fro window. she fled of fraetur, tiur.
 Police estimate that 300 persons lFvi in the hve-door bufIdinE Many them lost an they had in the fire. A r lief committee is tonight making pr vision for the care of the homeless a, providing them with temporary fun from public collections.
 The card on the hedstead of Pr, strokoscb. who iS recovurinr in the ho pital from the effects of smoke bearr notation thas makes him one Of the h roes Of the Are
 He savod the ltvee of et<hteer ne scns- the notation sayA IT is sign by Patroinnan Cssh. who was on duty no blAzs. strUdrach said nothing abo t today.
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