The evening world., 1895-05-20

smouldering In the paper all the after
Fire Marshal Mitchell has been no,i-
fed and an Investigation Will follow.
These Eircbuus Iscd on.
The members Of sixteen families mum
bering nearly one hundred men. women
and children. were asleep In the four
story double tenement loi East one
started there at / O'Clock yesterday
morning. The mcrest Kind OF accident
saved their lives. as had the fire "a a,nc1
the slightest headway the building
have undoubtedly perishcd. There is
| every reason to believe that II was the
work OF an incendiary.
The blaze was discovered by Michael
| NonanZ IA teamstcr who lives with his
| wife and three children on the ground
moor. lie had been too tired even to
sleep: and while his wife and children
| slumhcled he was awake.
Whle lying there restless. he heard
cracking sound as II tn" building was
on hre. and sprnginr out Of bed he
blaze beneath the door leading into the
/ hall On opening the door he saw the
| han carpet was on ire while the odor
OF Kerosene was strong.
Afousing his wife. they both got
! buckets OF water and tried to cNtincuish
the flames. which were rapidly "ating
their way to 4, room in which his chill
grocery on the other. side Of the hall
way. was awakened by Nonauz's CRIES
AMI rushed to his assistance: The
OF the other tenants had crowded
around. but most of them sep, on un-
conscious Of their peril,
carpet, in the hail had been drenchcd
lighted The fire had no, been n burning
minute before discovery.
Charles Ierharini. OF rs Centre street
owns the property. He says that the
only one he can suspect Il the incondia-
T,sm ,nn ,,n, Is i. tenant whom he had eyiGt,d
Investigating this blaze. az well as an
other fire which broke out in the cellar
OF III" ive.story fiat-house 206 West
Sixty-seventh street Mt l.3o o'clock yes
A fire which started in a stable at s
West one Hundred and Eighteenth
street at 80 o'clock this morning. from
an unknown cause, did slight damage.
There was rumor around Fire Head
Iuarten this morning that MAYOR
Str1ne had requested the Fire Commits
ssioncrs TO investigate the Bureau Of tho
Mayor thought that the Fire Marshal's
men were prone to attribute the origin
OF most fres to carelessness.
hooks would show that every FIRE to
which there was the slightest suspicion
attached had been thoroughly lnvee-
tigated
All These Fires MysterlorS.
During the last four months the fol-
loving fires, Of mysterious origin. con
cernIng which the police and Fire Mar
shal have been unable 10 learn little or
nothing, have occurred on the upper
west side
Feb. s-117 East NIncty-second
street: damage. ~25.OOO.
Mnrrh 1O-1J3U Lexington ave.
nue: damage. $1,000.
March l1-15O COlumhus n~auu..
damage. $500.
March 1l-IOs5 seventh avenue
and 1877 West One Hundred aud
Nineteenth street; damage. 5000
April 1l-1is West One Hundred
and First street: damage slight.
1H2 West EiRhty-sccOnd street.
sla mn&c. a5.OOO.
III: West One Hundred and Third
street: dn nRgc slight.
DOS Columbus avenue: damage,
NS.OOO.
80 West Nincty-f"urth street, one
life lost: dn mage, EIO.NO.
April i2-:i nnd = West Eighty
seventh street: damage slight.
age. ~ 1000.
~ West One Hundred nnd Seq
ond street: damage. sI.5Oo.
~" West One Hundred nnd Third
street, dn nnWe. $500.
ADrii I:s-t5O HOuIcvnrd: damngc
slight.
April 1t-G25 Columbus avenue:
damage. $500.
DOs Amsterdam avenue: damage
slight.
2O7 West SEVENTEEN street: dam
age slight.
April i7-22Os seventh avenue;
damage slight.
2io4 seventh avenue: damage
May I-2II West Eiuhty-cIuh,b
street: damage slight.
n73 W"stcrn boulevard: damage
| SLIGHT.
May 2-1m West Eighty-cixhth
| street: damage slight.
2!53 seventh avenue. dumnrc
| slight.
1919 West One Hundred mud Thir-
H-thnird street, damage slight.
West One Hundred aud Twenty
ninth street nnd Western nouIc-
ward. ShelterinW Arms SOciety.
2aO West One Hundred and
| A2,ONO.
:13 West One Hundred md For.
ty-nfth street.
MRy O-sS2 Amstcr,ium Dycnu.
damage. $500.
May s-:;ia nnd 3t5 West Fifty
eiehth street: damage. S1OO.
liH West EiHhty-fourth street
dn nmnRc, 5000.
| """ 'v' "fSt $eNenty-aeN-
enth street: damage slight.
May i2-i5O Columbus nycuur
damage. $3.50.
MnH 11-9i5 Columbus avenue
damage. 500.
NRy I5-I:D West Ei.hty-fnur,h
street: damage, $50.
May iG-:.7O seventh avenuc
damage slight.
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