The evening world., 1894-05-15
TRIED TolYNGA HIM.
Angry Tenants Thought Rosen-
bluth Fired His Store.
Chased Through the Street, He Took
Refuge in a Police Station.
MANY Small Fires, One Of Which
May Cause Mans Death.

several fires gave the Department
,,,o,tv of work this morning. One fam
a., we're rescued when all but overcome
49,, smoke. A half a dozen people had
narrow escapes. One man was chased
nv an excited crowd of people: who
,Soryht he had fired the house. In
aro,ber fire a man was burned so badly
that he will die.
simon Rosenbluth. his wife. Fanny,
and three children-John, four; Annie,
two years, and Bertha, seven weeks-liVe
IN the "Mixed Ale flats at S17 Tenth ave-
nue.
Rosenbluth keeps a crockery store
on the ground floor, and his family live
in the rear of the place. Simon has for
a partner his brother, Herman, who
lives with his family a few doors away
at S23 Tenth avenue.
Policeman Lanahan was standing on
the corner of Fifty-f1fth street at 2
o'clock this morning and saw the glare
of flames through the crockery shop
window. He blew his whistle, and Po-
licemen mckinley and Barrett, on the
adjoining posts, ran towards the burn
Ing building.
Lanahan got to the rear door in the
hall and succeeded in breaking 1t open.
The place was filled with smoke, and
the flames were eating up the wall
from the place where the fire had EVIL
IDENTIFY started in one corner of the
store.
The Rosenbluths were found in bed
overcome by the smoke. The three po-
licemen got them out to the pavement,
where they soon recovered, and were
taken to the apartments of Herman
Rosenbluth.
While Lanahan was breaking into the
shoe store Of H. Geller, in the other
shoemaker out, the other policemen
went upstairs to arouse the tenants. .
TT There was wild flight to the roof
troubie % With the iiames na ref sni exta9ushed a @
them after they had done $l,VN damage.
Rosenbluth went around to see how
much damage had been done. There
were about fifteen tenants standing in
front of the house talking in an excited
manner. As soon as they caught signt
of Rosenbluth, one of them cried:
:" There's the man who set hre to his
store for the insurance.!
more. He started down Tenth avenue
on a wild run. After him followed the
excited tenants, bowling like mad. One
Of them carried an axe, and the others
had clubs.
Herman ran on until he reached the
West Forty-ninth street police station
There he fell exhausted on the floor
with quivering limbs and staring eyes,
He begged the Sergeant to save his life
He was quieted after awhile, and told
that no one could hurt him. He started
back for his home, but 1t was hours be-
fore he had courage enough to enter it.
In the mean time the tenants had
given up the chase and returned to the
burned building. The janitor Of tn,
Kosenthuls could not have had any
thing to do with the fire. The tenant!
thought that the janitor was in league
with the others, and he would certainl,
! have come to some bodily harm hat
there not been policeman stationed
there. AS 1t was the janitor went In hi
rooms and locked himself in.
The fire that Will doubtless cost q
man his life. started at o'clock in the
old-fashioned three-story rear frame
house at 3l7 West Twentieth street.
who lives on the ground floor of the
place, was awakened by the screams OF
man. Going to the. second floor, she
found room in the back OF the house
years old. who lives there, was rollins
on the floor, wrapped in flames. The
pieces Of a lamp lay on the, floor neal
had Kicked over the lamp from chail
In his sleep.
Mrs. Amorette ran out and got police
man Madden. who turned in an alarm
When the policeman reached the hous'
with the firemen. the burning man coult
not be found. The flames in the room
were extinguished. and the hous
searched from top to bottom. Still ther
was no sight of Palmeno.
Finally the policeman found him in
woodshed in the next yard. The cloth
ing had been entirely burned from hi
body. and the flesh was falling off.
The injured man was taken to New
York Hospital. where his head. arm
and body We're found to be horribl.
burned, and 1t was said that the mai
could not live. The flames did $50 dam
age.
Fire broke out in a grocery store OF
the ground floor of the five-story tene
ment-house at ST Beach street early thi
morning. The store is owned by Mrs
Kate Lyons. who lives in the room be
hind 1t with her two-year-old daughter
Mrs. Lyons awoke smelled smoke an
found the entire store in flames. Sh
caught her child in her arms and ran I
the front door. But that door wa
locked, and she had mislaid the key.
The flames were creeping nearer an
nearer the woman and child, and Mr..
Lyons was pounding on the door, whe
Policeman McKeever arrived. battere