Arizona republican., 1914-11-17
PEND ESCAPES
 FROM TWO GUARDS
Engineer Loecher Grapples With Him, But is Knock ed Down - Watchman Smiths Shots in Dark Prove to Be Futile

The blazing ruin of a six thousand dollar hay warehouse was not yet done sending it's red glare into the sky, when an unknown fire-bug danced about the region of the Ari- zona Eastern yards last night, and before ten o'clock had lighted what is believed to have been his seventh fire within four days That there IS Ian incendiary-and very fiend at it is testified by A. E. Loecher, en- gineer of the Phoenix Flour Mills, who had hold of the man, and re- ceived a straight right to the jaw, for his pains.
 What the fire fiend did last night:
 Started Goldman warehouse fire.
 Lighted oily waste in box car near flour mill.
 Lighted waste under car in A. E. yards.
 Rurned cottage next to stock pens.
 Counting the fires that destroyed the Lount warehouse, a caboose on the A. F. tracks and the A. E. ware house occupied by Walter Hill-all three on Friday night, plus the four separate and distinct fires ignited last night, the bug" has now per petrated seven outrages that are practically fixed upon as his handi- work
 The Goldman warehouse is total loss, with fifty tons of hay. grain and equipment valued above $6000 The fire was noticed about eight o'clock, but before water could be gotten on the building, it was too far gone to be saved. Fire Truck No. 1, speeding east on Jefferson street between Eight and Ninth went into an open excavation where water mains had been renewed, and re- mained there until the other trucks came back from the fire and with steel hawsers, yanked it out.
 Like the Lount building, the Gold man warehouse was permitted to continue burning after the danger of the flames spreading had been re- duced. The contents of both were hay, and are much better removed as ashes than as soaked half burned bales. The Lount fire has been in progress for four days, or since late Friday night. It has been under care ful guard.
 Half an hour after the Goldman fire had attracted its thousands to the scene, officers accompanied En- gineer Loecher into the yards of the Phoenix flour mills, which are locat- ed just a block west of the burning warehouse. Loecher went around one way, and there among the box cars he came upon a stopping individual. who was in the act of applying a match to a neatly arranged pile Of oiled waste. From the pile, drap- cry of waste hung over the open door of a box car, evidently to carry the fire inside that it might more easily start things going.
 Loecher gripped the mans coat and tried to throw him. He was knocked flat, and before the officers could come, the incendiary had escaped
 Once more during the night, the fiend came to grips with the law. and that was when Luke Smith, yard watchman at the Arizona Eastern shops pumped two shots at him as he fled from a box car east Of the stock yards, scene of another of his coups Smith was making his rounds and was near the place where the ce- ment walk crosses the tracks in front of the round house. He saw the flames shoot up a hundred yards east on the siding. Without waiting ! to discuss matters, and knowing that he was in for a strenuous night, Smith unlimbered his six shooter and ,uncorked two shots at the blazing pile. in the hope either of hitting the ; criminal or of soaring him into the open. He neither saw nor heard the
 incendiary as he made his mad rush
 to the blaze. Seeing he would moi
 be able to quell it, without help Smith hurried to the shop and caught up an extinguisher Scarcely had ht put out the small blaze before an lother one broke out-two hundred (Continued on Page Twol