The Star And Newark Advertiser

THREE DEAD, FOUR HURT IN NEW YORK TENEMENT BLAZE
Sixteen Families Are Carried Through the Flames by Firemen and Police.
MOTHER INCINERATED AS SHE SHIELDS HER BABE
Aged Man Carries 65-Year-Old Wife from Upper Flat to Ground.

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Three persons are dead and four others were injured in an incendiary fire which early today created a panic in the crowded section about the five-story tenement house at 85 East Third street. Sixteen families had thrilling escapes from death.

Scores of women and children, through the bravery of firemen and police, were taken from the choked fire-escapes. Many children were dropped to the arms of waiting firemen in the street by policemen. Mrs. Yetta Moscowitz died shielding her babe from the smoke and flames.

Police are searching for an incendiary whose motive is said to have been revenge. The house had recently reverted to its original owner after litigation on the mortgage.

The dead are: Mrs. Yetta Moscowitz, 25 years old, burned to a crisp; Maurice Moscowitz, 13 weeks old, smothered; man known as Louis, a boarder with the Moscowitzes, burned to a crisp.

Police Sergeant Daniel Fogarty, with Policeman Curry, ran to the burning building when the alarm was given by Isidore Kavers, the janitor of the building. Dispatching Kavers to the fire-house, two blocks away, they started in to arouse the sleeping families, when they were met at the lower floor by a blast of flame and smoke.

The rear of the basement, used as a storage house for the tenants, and the four stores in the building were a roaring furnace, and the fire was sweeping rapidly to the upper floors. Curry entered the building, and Fogarty, entering the building adjoining, No. 83, ran to the second floor, crawled out the window and along the cornice to the fire-escape of the burning building.

Fogarty lowered the ladder, and Curry holding it at the lower end aided the first score of panic-stricken ones to safety. Then he mounted to the second floor and took charge of the children, dropping them to the arms of the firemen as fast as they arrived from the upper floors.

Policemen Connolly and Nestor aided in the rescues, but the frightened tenants choked the platform.

Michael Mulholland carried his wife Mary, 65 years old and feeble, to the fire-escape. As she was being taken down the last ladder she lost her grip and fell into the arms of Policeman Connolly. Policeman Curry, who came to aid him, was cut by flying glass, but reached the ground in safety.