The evening world., 1894-05-15
TRIED TO LYNCH HIM.
Arcrv Tenants Thought Rosen-
bluth Fired His Store.
Chased Through the Street, He Took
c.fuge in a Police Station.
u,u, small Fires, One Of Which
May Cause a Mans Death.

,.oral fires gave the Department
r,y of work this morning. One fam
-. ,,ar, rescued when all but overcome
suokc A half a dozen people had
.ro,, .scapes. One man was chased
ny an excited crowd of people, who
,ho,yht he had fired the house. In
ano,h.r fire a man was burned SO badly
that he Will de
simon Rosenbluth, his wife, Fanny,
and three c~hildren-John, -FOUR; Annie,
two years, and Bertha, seven weeks-live
in the mixed Ale" flats at SIT 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 mariner his brother, Herman, who
lives with his family a few doors away
at So Tenth avenue.
Policeman Lanahan was standing on
the corner of Fifty-ifth street at .
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 it open.
the place was filled with smoke. and
the names 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 n. Geller, in The other
side Of the building and getting the
went upstairs to arous the tenants.
There was a wild flight to the roof
and tire-escapes; All got out Of the
trouble with the flames. and e~xtinguished
them after they had done $l,VO damage.
When, the fire was all over Herman
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 sight
There's the man who set fire to his
store for the insurance."
Herman didn't, wait to hear any
more. He started down Tenth avenue
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 1t:
In the mean time the tenants had
given up the chase and returned to the
burned building. The %janitor of the
place tried to convince them that the
thing to 10 with the fire. The tenants
thought that the ~janitor was in league
with the others. and he would certainly
there not been a policeman stationed
there. As it was the janitor went in his
rooms and locked himself In.
The fire that will doubtless, cost a
old-fashioned three-story rear frame
house at 317 West Twentieth street.
Baptiste Amorette. a Frenchwoman,
who lives on the ground floor of the
place. was awakened by the screams of
a man. Going to the second floor, she
found a room in the Jack of the house
all afire. n Julian Palmeno. eighteen
years old, who lives there, was rolling
on the floor, wrapped In flames. The
pieces OF a lamp lay on the floor near
the bed. 1t looked as though the man
had kicked over the lamp from a chair
in his sleep.
Mrs. Amorette ran out and got police
man Madden. who turned in an alarm.
When the policeman reached the house
Will III ~ llit Nv u III hldl coulu
not be found. The flames in the room
were extinguished, and the house
searched from top to bottom. Still there
was no sight of Palmeno.
Finally, the policeman found him in a
woodshed in the next yard. The cloth
| ing had been entirely burned from his
body. and the flesh was falling off.
The injured man was taken to New
York Hospital. where, his head. arms
land body were found to be horribly
burned, and 1t was said that the man
could not live. The flames did $50 dam
age.
Fire broke out in a grocery store on
the ground floor of the five-story tene.
ment-house at 81 Beach street early this
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 and
found the entire store In flames. She
caught her child In her arms and ran to
the front door. But that door was
locked, and she a mislaid the key.
The flames were creeping nearer and
nearer the woman n child, and Mrs
Lyons was pounding OF the door. wher
Policeman Max eaypr arrival hatfaraf