The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-25

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Az o'clock. yesterday morning, the
engine house BELLS, With their iron
tongues, pr9ctEimea another fire, and
In q molaen ttke snglRess were rumbs.
ling EeVerF the -Astouy streets,E while
towards el1s n 6rgh part 6fthe city the
Spreading flames were lighting up the
whole heaEeRssa zRhev-fire was son'
CLARK Streets and originated in the
third bniiaing beyond the Gayitt pro-,
perty burned asfew months ago. The
house inlThich the FIRE originated was
owned By Mrs, Lease. Crouel. who &C.
ueupied four rooms In the building,
iwhic b wasuaada rge two storysframe'
the Bala6ee Of the building being oo-
eppled by s9me qwomenI WHO WORK II. IN
the cotton miliss1waI :eiilydsef
iaeqb eafire isfsafd 20 have originated
| ia a vacant room "a which, there had
been no fire, and to which there was
no entrance, sexgeps through the other
apaftm ents be own sr Of the house,
from fright or some other cause, did
act give 8 any special alarm !, but ad
Idressed herselfh once and with great
vigor' to the work of removing her
sh0ussholdsg9o and had them about
all out and neatly boxed up on the
opposite SIDE of, the street when the
neighbors were first fairly aroused
Fine iSs spread soathoto the two story
frame resi- lence of M +. a. eKirkpat--
rick, whose son was. aroused BY the,
erackling Ofthei fre,r and who at once
aRakenedaaHis parents to1find their
.roof enyeloped il flames, and the fire
iiallingmponuthe bed from which they
had been thus timely aroused. Mr.,
Kirk patrick succeeded in saving a
portion of his household goods, but is
"a heaxylloseE-. His house was valued
|. at $1,000 to $500 and insured in the
Htna, represented by sNexsen &
Bixby, for 81, l00so oas 20 s1oao4
aqaAtthe issa ne time the fire had ex-a
tended northBardl to double two
story frame tenement owned By Per-
tlinand FuDlse, and occupied by Tom
SARGENT and SEQ. Linibus. ~ L -
The houses of DIR. Kirkpatrick
and Mr.. Funke had theaupper stories
burned off, ard the lower stories. SO
badly damaged by fire and'water that
they viii have to be rebuilt from the
ground. 1.-The house, of Mrs. Oronek
was totally destroyed. We did not
ascertain tbe names Of the women
occupying the south portion of Mrs.
Groueis building, or the extent of
tfeir loss nor did We ascertain
whether orinot f anke was insured. IS.
Mrs. Cf9aSl's building was insured
in the Baltic, represented BY GeorGe
Stackhouse, for 81, 900, u and ia tho
Phoenix for 81, 900, aud her furniture
and household goods W re insured in
thesFreeman's Company fori$9O0.
1t is said that Mrs. Grouel had been
engaged for several days removing
her household goods from the build
ing, and it IS probable that she has
saved most of them. The singular
origin Of ,the ere, apa.certain incidents
attendiug and preceding, will prob
ably lead tol a rigid Investigation of
the whole affair." rsis La 49, .sao sasp'
Fqnke's, building was probably of
the value Of Sc, O00rHThc buildings
north and south adjoining were in
immihent dangers but were Fortunate
y saved. Destructive fires are be-
coming salarmingly frequent in our
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