The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-10-23
ii Persons
Lost in N. Y.
Flat Fire
Many Caught in Bed. When
Flames Sweep Apartment
Building Find Evidence
Of Pyromanisc.
Children Among Victims

Y New York. OCT. ?g..uBy g. P.p-
Fourteen persons, most Of them chill
dfcn lost their lives cariy today In .
fire believed by city officials to lie ihs
work " a pyrom9niae. The flames
swept with mprdcrous suddennsst
( from cellar 10 attic of fivestory
brick tenement at Lexington avenue
and Ono Hundred and Tenth street, IN
The thiekly populated Fast Side.
The binze apparently started IN
baby carriage under the stairs IN
lower. hall under almost identical cir
Gumsiances ss the recent incendlary
fire IN an upper West Side apart
meDi house. which resulted IN seyep
deaths. No quickly did the flame,
shoot through the building that =
number Of dead were found in bed.
burned or suffoeated without oppor
Z tunlty 10 escape.
I Nathan Silver and four of his chill.
.dren were among the victims. Mrs.
silver escaped Mr. and Mrs Abrs.
ham Mstilsky and Mdney and Cath
crime suRarman. brother and sister
Of Mrs. Natiisky, also perIsbed.
Building Mass Of Fisines.
Shortly after ] this morning, city
Marshal Joseph Lazarus, while Oh
hIs way home, saw smoke issuing
( from tho hallway Of the building. lie
ran 10 the next corner and turned
in sn alorD. when he returned. the
whole building, The ground floor OF
which " occupied by 6torer, was
mass Of flames, and exit by the stair.
ways yae cut Off. Most ~ the per.
Sons on The second floor made their
way down the fire escapes. but those
on upper floors had 10 struggle
through smoke and flames pouring
out the windows,
Several tensntH percbed on upper
story windows threatened 20 jump.
but were prevailed upon By nrcmen
10 remain uDtI ladders could be- rais'
Cd, One aged woman, Mrs. Mary
inelase, disregsrded the warning and
loapod from the fourth floor, receiv.
ing injuries which probably win couss
her death.
While the frofnen were al work on
the second floor and preparing 10
Gght their way 10 the third floor, this
foor collapsed. but not before warn
ing had sent the nremon 10 safety.
Youth Saves Nearly Score.
Nearly score of persons owe their
I I,y.. I.,..a ftsI6Aoatt ~ ttte.
ohspics helper, who WAS eating at q
RESTAURANT IN the vicinity when he
heard woman cry tor help. Running
10 the street. he saw the woman lean.
ing out Of the window on the second
floor Of the burning tenement With
two small children BY her side. The
young man clambcred on the sill Of a.
store window, Jumped and caught a
swinging sign and pulled himself UP
10 the window.
He led the three frightened tenants
down the fire escape 10 the street and
then ran back and rescued the
wonaps 1s-months old baby, who was
asleep IN crib.
Later, he went TO the roof of an
adjoining building and, by throwing
q board over the alley space, made II
possible for number Of tenants. who
seemingly had been cut of from
escape, to cross IN safety
William conners, %, who lives with
his mother across the street from the
burned building. also rescued o mum.
ber of persons from the third floor, in.
cluding Mrs. Silver. lie was badly
injured when a gust OF Hames burned
the clothing from his back, as he was
walking down the fire escape with
woman in his arms.
Gharred Carriage Found.
"Eycrything points TO the fire being
OF incendiary origin" Assistant Die,
trict Attorney Hennis who Is coduct.
ing an investigation, said
The charred frame Of baby car.
riage, IN which the fire started, was
found In the ruins OF the building.
Part Of the investigation hinges upon
the baby carriage clues.
Taxicab drivers, lounglne in their
machines at the curbings in the early
fNNAHf AhtlNl DNsfillit
samariians during the fire. Scores "
them put their cabs AT the disposal of
The police in dispatching the Injured
TO hospitals, Later they were com.
mandeered TO bring relatives 10 IN.
lnorgues.
In one morsus, Edwurd Pine hur.
RED to the body of his ilanoee. sarah
SILVER and Identified II when oth.r.
had failed TO 90 so, party had been
planned IN the fiat today. al which
the engagement was to have been an.
nounced
\ Miss silver survivors say. had once
passed the danger point ia the hail
way on her way 20 safety. when she
returned to her nom fol hef engage.
meul tlug In moment the naul.s
hloeked the corridor She Jumped from
window and died ~ a fractured
skull