Evening star., 1926-02-01

alarm and then to the street and
pulled the fire alarm there.
BY that time the top story Of the
building was a mass of flames. Emer-
gency alarms, bringing out virtually
all available fire equipment in the city,
were turned in as soon as the first
engine arrived. F,iremen, wearing gas
masks, were sent by Battalion Chiefs
Schrom and Buscher to rout out the
sleeping residents of the building
each apartment was warned and
scores of men women and children
fled from the building in scanty cloth.
ing.
Mounting ladders to the roofs of
adjoining buildings, firemen turned
streams on the flames and soon gained
control. extinguishing the fire by S
o'clock. Every apartment in the
building suffered heavy loss from
water. but only the top floor and the
roof were destroyed by flames. The
loss TO the building was estimated at
$35 900 and the remaining $4,000 to
$50, 900 probable damage was done to
furniture and belongings OF apartment
owners.
Before Harry G.. Pratt, chief of de.
tectives, and Detectives Lowry, Fowler
and F'laherty. Marsh yesterday ad.
mitted he had "purposely" started a
fire on Z street last year and to have
sounded about 75 false alarms.
Saw Brother Burned to Death.
Tragedies earlier in his life are be.
lieved by police to have seriously af-
fected him. About five years ago
Marsh saw his brother, Alexander
Henry Marsh, burned to death at their
home at Riverdale.
But don't write anything about
that" Marsh cried pitifully this morn.
ing. Il didn't start that fire"
Marsh, highly nervous, bit his fin
gernails and asked why his mother
and father hadn't been to see him.
He told police he had always been
nervous since childhood, when he was
pushed down a flight of stone steps.
He suffered a wound on his forehead
at the time, he said. He was placed in
ST. Mary's Industrial School in Balti.
more when child, police were told.
Yearwood, killed in the crash with
the fire truck. was riding in a cab
driven by Robert Seay, colored, .!
years old, OF 60s Blair place north
east. The accident occurred at Flor
ida avenue and Third street. He died
before he reached Emergency Hos
pital. The cab was demolished. Sea y
was being held by police today pend.
ing a coroner's inquest this afternoon
Miss Frances NJ. Banta, Peter Mi
geot. Harry Burgess and Albert Bur.
CESS sustained the greatest loss of
personal belongings In the blaze. 9th.
er residents of the apartment who Suf.
fered loss from water damage in
clude: Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Orbella
and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Wagshall
two sons and daughter, Mrs. w.
johnson and her daughters, Capt. and
Mrs. j. NJ. Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Sintatos and two daughters, Mrs. w.
NJ. Sturges and two sons, Mrs. H. C.
Blackwell and Miss Townson, DIR. and
Mrs. f. M. Finch, apartment 36; Miss
E. L. Horner, the Misses E. NJ and NJ
j. Jordan and Miss F. Cleaves, Mrs
A j. Sampson and J. L. Sampson
Miss Lena Bauer, Misses Eunice and
Olivia Biller, Miss Eleanor Maynard
| and E. A. Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. John
b. Wilson. Miss Grace Deal, Miss B
T.. McAfee and Miss Sara Wertsela
| Mrs. B. NJ. Hixson and two daughters
! Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Marsh, four sons
and two daughters, Mr.. and Mrs. E. c.
Haynes and two children, Mr.. and Mrs.
s. K. kushelevsky and their daush-
ter Charlotte, Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Lot.
| tus and daughter Mabel, Misses Merle
Dunn. Wee Dunn. Marge Dunn, Goldie
Dunn and Billie Dunn, Leo Dunn and
Miss Judy Campbell.