New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-16
THE FIRE RECORD.
THE STRANGERS WERE TOO SObClroos'
THEY YELLED FIRE AND URGED THE IN
MATES TO FLY TO THE RooF-oNE OF
THEM ARRESTED


, no,or c,nr,ies living IN the fvestory tenement
bouse No 454 Ninth-ave disturbed by sus
pcious fire In the cellar yesterday, ana tf' eAcioe'
was Increased by tho arrest OF one oil two men VIZ
actions caused a belief that they were thieves Nohe
Of the occupants had seen the men IN 'o n''oo
ninth they ran upstairs together rev minutes 49,
I n m Yesterday and began TO knock NJ doorS anu
shont FIyl, Smoke was rising from the cellar anu
eTlng the Railways on each floor. The strangers Ro"
., The rc before the inmates OF hc house did ana the
were urgent in their advice to run TO the TOOL III
though escape by tho stairs WIS stli ssie
Ieander Kress, O good Datured German was !" IA,
home on tho third floor Of the house with his WIG anu
hh be one Of the strangers entered and said abrupt
" "Tbe house Is attire Cit to the roof qncNF ihen
no grabbed the baby and DISAPPEARED IN the SMOKY nun
WAY Krss and his wife went TO the ooor Vi "
rooms and stood there. half bewdsrcd' Inc stranp'
had run down one flight of stairs instead OF ieaus ~
v,ov to tbe roof lie ran back I'm minute but seeing
Mrs Kress he dashed up stairs to the fourth moor sun
carrying the baby Pretty ne ran down again. CAV
e bahv hack TO Mrs Krsss and started toward the rooi
Kress and his wife went into their rear roo' "iuo"
~ which opened on flreescape balcony. They cav
q mans foot smash the window zane Iheh INC "ah
came through the opening. He had climbed Gown tle
ereescape from tho fourth floor. seeing the kreNscs
ntju in their room he to the hallway ana dlsap
neard Kress helped his wife and baby down The hre-
scanc 10 the second floor and rrInen took them on
ladder TO the yard -.
The wife of Henry Benz lay In bed on the fourth
floor. nursing her newly born infant and un"Ge 10
ree Her mother was with her. The two strangers
entered her room without knocking and urged her 10
20 on the roof but did not offer to help her. "heaf
they understood that she oould not get up they Er
the women there and upstairs Negioois hclpeo he'
mother carry tho sink woman down flight Of stairs
Then a fireman tol1 thon that the danger was over
md Mrs Benz was carried back to her own bed.
The nrcmcn found the flames In a woodbin IN tte
cellar and extinguislcd thom so quickly that the
damage did not exceed 500. Before the fire was out
Police CAPTAIN Cross and Detective Hey, OF the
Twentieth Precinct, at the house making inquiries
as TO the probable origin Of the flames Hearing aoout
the two strangers in tho house. they ran upstairs and
slccocGsd In catching Of them who was In room
ON the third nOOr where he had no right to be- Ills
comrade escaped. The prisoner said nc was n, FRANK
Green aged eighteen. Of No. G29 Ninthave. He was
locked MP In the West Thirty eventhst police station
and he refused to til Captain Gross anything about
his cOnpanlon. Nothing of voue was found In ma
possession The police learned that two rings had
tscn et0lcn from the room OF Annie Rlf. on the top
floor Of The housc, and some receipts from pocket
hook belonging to Mrs. Ryan, on the third floor.
The rs1nen and police have thought that several 10
cent frs In the cellars Of tenement-houses were
started By thieves