FIVE-STOREY TENEMENT DESTROYED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1914, Page 5

FIVE-STOREY TENEMENT DESTROYED.

FOURTEEN- PEOPLE KILLED,

[Prsess Association.] (Received, April 18, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 17, Fourteen persons a-re knosrn to liav« been killed,and four wore injured, one mortally, .at a .fir* in a five-storey tenement. Firemen searching tb© wreckage announced that fourteen bodies ntfere *e«>overed, among them being s. woman with a (baby in her arms. Several are .missing, and iiho •bodies are so badly chasK-ed as te Tender identification dlmodt impossible. ""; - . .... . ■. ;' '. .' ' ' ':■„_' '' The >fire started in the ibasement" of » five and ten cent store, which, oc■cu^ied tlhe ,first floor, and spi-ead arapiSly :up t&je.'-stafcwa.y. Many occupants of the apartmertfc chouse escaped by the fire escapes.