FAULTY LEADS
Evading the police by sliding down a rope fire escape from a hotel window, Joseph Matus, charged with robbing a lumber jack of $125, escaped the police temporily only to be arrested an hour later at the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot.
Ignited by the breaking of an electric lamp, a tank of whiskey containing 7,705 gallons exploded and threw Francis Tab, 120 W. 139th St., thirty feet against the opposite wall at the E. J. Jimkons Company, 40th street this morning.
Fire of unknown origin started in the big lumber yards owned by Charles Johnson at 763 Clinton Avenue, yesterday afternoon. The yards and one million feet of lumber were totally destroyed. The entire district between Mitchell street and the South River was in danger of total destruction, according to fire Chief Casey.
Fire starting in a shed on West street caused the total destruction of the First Baptist church and the death of two firemen killed by falling walls. Loss $120,000.