The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-11
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DIsGRACEFUL SUNDAY SCENES.

Hisht-The Paid system wanted-IrcendIa-
rism and RiotinR-A Hose Carriage Tambied
into the scbuylkiIi-PolcemeB Injured and
Ffremen shot-Two Companies Suspended
from Duty.
The city has been disgraced by another fire.
mems riot, which commenced at midnight on
day, during which several fires we're kindled
and number of policemen and tiremen injured
1t originated with a quarrel between the
the cause of which is assigned by some to
politics, others to the action of the Philadelphia
with regard to the Warren Hose. and still others
TO the fact of the Good Will constantly employ
ing a colored band. But it is evident that this
dissension has arisen from the presence in both
companies of q class of men who live by steal
ing whatever they can lay their hands on on
occasions OF fire, which are started especially
for that purpose.
Several attempts were made on Saturday to
get the Good Will to the Schuylkill front, by
building fires in the neighborhood of Twenty
fourth and SAMSON streets, and finally, at half
past 10 o'clock at night, an incendlary's match
started a fire in an old unoccupied building,
formerly used a glass house, on Twenty
fourth street, between Chesnut and Walnut The
damage done was but trifing, but the occasion
served excellently for 6rst-class hremen's riot,
in which the Fairmount Marion, Delaware, and
Fame companies participated Bricks, ETC.,
were freely used, and the end was the tumbling
of the carriage of the Good Will Engine Com
pany into the Schuylkill at SAMSON street wharf
by, it is alleged, the members of the Philadel-
phia Engine Company. Baffled, worsted, and
defeated, the Goodwin returned to their house
entertaining anything but goodwill for the
Philadelphia.
Accordingly, at a few minutes after o'clock
flames shot out OF an old shed on Lybrand street,
between Race and Vine, which is within half
a square of the Good win engine house, and
this fire had the effect of not only satisfying the
blood-thirstiness of the fiends who kindled it,
out also of destroying the valuable property of
citizens who were miles away sleeping soundly
under the consciousness that their structures
and contents were safe in the hands of the Phila-
delphia Volunteer Fire Department.
The Philadelphia Engine Company went to
the scene, and hardly had they arrived on the
ground when they were surrounded by a crowd
of rOughs, and assaulted in the toughest kind of
manner. Fortunately, anticipating disturb
ance, a number of policemen accompanied the
Philadelphia, and they prevented what other
wise would have been q terrible riot. However
as il was, several policemen and participants in
the melee were hurt. Policeman William
Mcclure was cut in the leg; Policeman Henry
Noble was injured in the chest, and Policeman
James Dungoold was cut in the side. OF the
rioters no names conld be ascertained, as they
were hurried away from the spot.
In the meantime the flames cracked away and
communicated to the carriage mandatory of
Thomas B. Parker No. 249 North Broad street,
a large four-story building used in part as a
stable for a team of twenty-five mules which
Mr.. Parker uses for teaming on Broad and
Market streets. The animals were saved, but
the building was totally destroyed. Thence the
flames spread to the flour mill of Messrs. Row
land & Ervien, adjoining on the north, another
four-story brick building, so feet front by 70
deep.
The mill has not been in operation since the
death OF Robert Ervien, which occurred re-
Gently. There were in it, however, one steam
engine, four boilers, and all the machinery
necessary for large Touring MILL To-day all
IS wreck, and the loss will reach ESQ, 600. From
here the fire communicated to Nos Psi, 253 and
255 Lybrand street, dwellings occupied by Mrs.
Miller, Thomas Umpstead and Daniel Bunting,
all of which we're more or less damaged, the
families sustaining losses by water. The build
ings are owned by Mrs. Paulding, who sustains
a loss OF about 10000 No. 249 a stable belong
ing to Mr.. Parker, was also badly damaged.
-Four horses contained therein were saved.
The floating cinders set fire TO the roofs of
Nos. 1883 to 1349 Vine street, north side, and
Nos. 1926 to 1884, south side; the interiors were
also damaged by water. Eight or ten houses on
Juniper street shared the same fate Shoe
maker, Adams e Co., lumber merchants, No.
237 North Broad, sustain serious damage, as
well as George Mass, southeast corner of Broad
and Vine streets. The wholesale liquor estab-
lshment OF j. B. Van Osten, No. 24S North
Broad street, the commission warehouse of La
fayette Baker, No. 246, and the United States
bonded warehouse, No. 243, were all damaged
from falling embers; Nos. $50, 252 and 254 were
badly scorched. The carpenter shops of Mr.
Reuben Verney, Nos. 245 and 247 Lybrand
street, we're also badly scorched.
Mr.. Parker estimates his loss at 5000; in
spred for $40, 900 in the Royal, Etna, and Frank
lin. Mr.. Parkers place OF business had but re-
Gently been rebuilt, it having been partially de-
strOyed by fire some months ago.
The following are the insurances which Row
land & Ervein had effected on their building anC
contents:-