The alarm of fire was given on last Tuesday evening about 11 o’clock. One of J.M. Aikman’s lumber houses on N. Market St., just north of H. Spieldoch’s residence was found to be on fire and the old blacksmith shop and dry house together with a small dwelling and barn were completely destroyed. Continue reading
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Yesterday at 12:53 pm the alarm of fire was given and soon a large crowd gathered around the burning residences of Lee Thompson and Bert Bobbet stationed near the northeast corner of the square in a cluster of other dwellings. Continue reading
Our people, and especially those on the east side of the square, were given a genuine scare on last Monday morning. At about three o’clock the family of Mr. Thomas Perrigan, who occupy rooms in W.P. Goodall’s building, were aroused from their slumbers by the presence of smoke in their apartments. They were not long to discovering that the house was ablaze in the closet under the steps in the front part of the building. Continue reading
Fiery Fiend. Early last Tuesday morning, while the better class of our citizens were in their beds sleeping off the weariness of their labor, our city was again attacked by the fiery fiend. Continue reading
On last Tuesday night between 10 and 11 o’clock the alarm of fire was sounded in our city and it was discovered that fire had broken out in the rear of J.M. Cline’s drug store on the west side of the square. Continue reading