New York Fire.
OVER FOURTEEN DEATHS. MANY NARROW ESCAPES. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (Unite,-) Press Association.] (Received 9.5 a.m.) New York, Apul 1" ■ Fourteen persons are known to be killed and four injured (one mortally) in a fife in a five-storey tenement. The firemen, on searching the wreckage, announced that fourteen bodies had been recovered. Several are missing. The bodies are so badly charred as to render identification almost impossible. The fire' started in the basement of a five and ten-cent store which was occupied on the first floor, and spread rapidly up the stairway. Many of the occupants in the apartment house escaped by means of the tire escapes;' i
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 98, 18 April 1914, Page 5
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110New York Fire. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 98, 18 April 1914, Page 5
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