The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-04-18
FIVE QUEER FIRES.
All Broke Out in the Easements
Of Apartment Houses,
There Is Reason 10 Believe Most OF
Them We're Incendiary.
Nyblom's Irish Setter Gave the Alarm
to Her Master.

The Fire Marshal will to-day invest!.
gate five fires which occurred during
the early hours this morning. The flames
in each case broke out In Easements
OF observation-disclosures. and the origin OF
each is shrouded in mystery In most
of the fires there is suggestion OF In.
cendiarism.
The first fire was discovered by q
dog. 1t was in the five-story fiat-house
SIG West Thirty sixth street. AXal
Nyblom, the janitor. occupies the base
ment with his wife and two children
The family own valuable Irish setter
called Nellie.
Shortly after o'clock Nyblom was
awakened by the dog Juggling 1T the
bedclothing and barking loudly. The
tanitor got up and found the place filed
with smoke. He ran into the street To
turn in an alarm, and met John Bia-
g,otty, a clerk. who lives on the third
floor. Biag,otty sent out the alarm.
The fire burned n lot OF boxes and
barrels in the lower hall. The firemen
put It out in ten minutes. Few OF the
tenants knew there was fire. Mark
Murphy, the actor, who lives on the sec
Onu UOOT, WIS tlt oHlN Ollt WHY "'ht
down stairs to assist the tremen.
Biagiotty said he was entering the
house before the fire was discovered
when he saw two boys run out of the
basement hall and disappear down the
street. He believes an attempt was
made to fire the house
At 450 a fire was discovered under the
stairway in the basement of the four
story brick tenement at 42l West Thirty
first street. Conrad BrantiGan has n
grocery there on the first floor. His
family lives in the rear of the store.
The grocer was nervous and couldn't
sleep. He got up to get n drink of
water, when, by the dim light of a
lamp In the store. he saw clouds OF
smoke. Just before that he had heard
some. one walk through the hall and
shut the door softly.
Brantigan got a policeman to turn in
an alarm. while he aroused the eight
families in the house. The damage done
was only $1,000
In June. 1855. a fire started under the
basement stairs in the rear OF the build
Ing which was afire to-day. The other
burned to death while four other people
were overcome by the smoke and were
taken to a hospital.
There have been several other disas-
trous fires in the block In which people
perished so that the place has been
given the name OF Cemetery Row
The next fire was at o'clock. c.
Everard, who keeps cigar store on
the first floor of the four-story brick
tenement T Tenth avenue. smelled
smoke; Mrs. Everard took her two-chil-
dren IN her arms and carried them
downstairs. Her husband called the
Fire Department. The fire was burning
Q lot Of rubbish in the basement. l,
was extinguished before the flremen's
arrival. after doing $40 damages
Tramps who sleep in the basement
nall are supposed to have started the
The tenants of the house are exercised
because the owner of the house refused
TO put lock on the front door Tn,
man is James Brooks, OF ell West Fifty.
NTH street. II Is claimed that he own,
nfty-three tenements and that there /.
not lock on the front door of one o.
them.
There was n fire in the cellar OF tn.
hve-story brick tenement 1883 Avenue
at 4.30 o'clock this morning. 1t was dis
covered by Charles Mullen. who has :
grocery store on the first floor. Tn
damage was $3.50. The cause Is un
known.
There was a slight fire in the celia
of the fve-story brick tenement, 1871
Third avenue at 6 o'clock. The dam
age was nominal.