The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-03-24
Ficnds Nabbed In the Very Act OF Set
ting Fire to New FORK Tenc-
ment Houses.
A Score OF Recent Bla3es in Which
Eleven Lives We're Lost the Result
OF Their Work.
3Ioody Fight Between Outlaws and
Marshals I'm ChickasaW Country.
Noted Vendetta Ended.

GfOSe upon the tenement house horror at
Hester and Allen streets, in which four
persons perished and the East Twenty
ninth street tenement FIRE. which cost
two more lives, with strong suspicion
that incendiarism was the cause of each
fire, comes reports to the police of two
clear and indnbitable cases of attempted
incendiarism Of particularly atrocious
kind. In all the lives of fifty-eight fam
lilies, comprising probably 300 persons,
were placed in jeopardy by these at
tempts, each fire having been started in
tenement house. In only one case
were there any rests, but in this proof
seems to be positive, as policeman by
peculiar good luck saw the would be
Fire Bugs In the Act.
This occurred in the five-story tenement
numbered 90 f-2 Catherine street The
floor of this building lis occupied by
Michael Schrender, John Stregenis and
Andrew Maschrides, Polish Jew tailors,
who slept and worked there. The
policeman in question happened to see
the windows Of these appointments
bloom with light. Then there was
sudden burst of flame which illuminated
the interior Of the room. and the police
man saw one of the tailors with can
In his hand the contents of which he
was emptying around the room, while
the other two Poles stood i'm the
back ground. The officer started for
The apartments and when he reached
there quickly smothered the fire with q
mattress. The three tailors looked on
without showing excitement or anxiety
and did not offer to assist the officer In
Eubduing the flames. They were ar
rested. They said they had upset the
lamp.
Another Plot to Destroy Life
and property was discovered i'm tene-
ment No. 243 East One Hundred and
Twenty First street, which is occupied
BY over 100 people. Charles Balz. bar
keepor, smelled smoke when he went
home at 2 a. m. He aroused the in-
mates, and q search revealed the fact
that heap Of rubbish under the stairs
was burning. The plot was evidently to
cut off escape by the stairs. The fire
escapes are somewhat deficient. The
inmates were Mortified to find that the
knobs to the front doors Of this and the
three adjoining tenements had been re-
moved, 80 that the people would have
been trapped like rats.
Another case was at 212 East Sixty
first street. A policeman saw smoke
coming out of the cellar ut Q a. m. Sew
eral colored families in the house were
aroused. 1t was found that fire had
been kindled in a coal bin, and also in q
pile of wood in another part of the cell
Brooklyn Tncendiaries.
A fire was discovered Saturday after
noon in the cellar Of the tenement at
646 Eleventh avenue. 1t was near some
oil barrels, and doubtless incendiary. A
tenant located the fire in time to save
the building and its occupants.
The Brooklyn incendiaries are still at
work. Al FIRE was found to have been
kindled under the stairway in the base
ment Of the tenement at 800 Myrtle
avenue, occupied by several families. 1t
was in store room which is generally
kept locked. The lock had been broken.
The people in the house panic stricken
but all got out safely and the fire was
extinguished without doing much dam
age.
Fatal Newark Fires.
Newark also has its fire bugs. Late
Sunday night fire was discovered on the
second floor of the tenement 81 Boyd
street, Newark. The flames quickly
communicated to two adjoining tene-
ments. There were about dozen Polish
families in the three tenements. There
were many narrow escapes, and two
persons who are missing are supposed to
have perished in the flames. The build
Fings were burned out. The floor in
which the fire was discovered was occu-
|pied by Solomon Epstein. His apart
ments, it is said, had been saturated
| with oil. The police are making an in