Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-10-18
TEMPORARY pw.LL1ses

Shanties are being built upon open
lots in convenient localities, aud made
a. comfortable as possible for temporary
occupancy.
'.9i BANK VAULTS OPENED. ''''
A number of bank vaults have been
opened and their contents Lfouni unin-
jured. Every bank in the city claims
that in time it will be able to pay every
dollar of Indebtedness. ai snO .h3vts7
THIEVES BURGLARS AND INCENDI.RIEs.
o The police continue to capture thieves,
burglars and incendiaries, and generally
deal with them in a summary manner,
thus atfectuslIy preventing them from
cansing further trouble. g.b 4sIal 4
tr ESCAPE FROM THB FIRE. -yrs
Five hundred people escaped during
the fire on a barge, which was towed out
into the lake. 3.} elf l.a .s5-art 1aHI
s'rArEMRT OF AN EYEWITNESS.
Mr.. Thomas Parker, foreman Of Hor
ton & Leonard. railroad printers, arrived
in New York on Wednesday evening,
the llth, from Chicago, to purchase
printing material for his employers. He
was in the stricken city from the COM
ihencement of the fire up to Monday,
the 9th. when he left for New York.
Mr.. Parker says that after the fire of
Saturday night everybody had settled
do wn to the conviction that no further
I danger was in store, aud when the fire
on Sunday night broke out there was
but one little excitement, it being sup
posed that it was an alarm caused by the
sutdued FIRE showing further signs OF
life
When 1t became known that fire had
broken out at some distance from the old
one, the people began to awaken to the
sense of the fresh calamity. Mr.. Par
ker walked briskly to the scene of the
conaagration, with hurrying throng
who pressed with eager anxiety to the
scene. The excitement grew in intensi
ty, and people became almost frantic with
accumul,ting fears. Children ran crying
through the streets, women wept and
wrung their hands. and men seemed tC
have lost control of themselves.
In the presence of the terrible work o
the fire. fie nd on Sunday night there wa:
but little if any Of the robbery which OF
the next day and since has been perre
trated in the city. Everybody seemed
stunned and dismayed, and looked on ii
wonder and amazrment. A great many
made pitiable efforts to rescue some o
their goods and personal effects from th'
devouring flames, and were seen stag
gerins under the weight of the burdens
with which they had loaded themselves
Few had sufficient presence of mind tt
take only enough for their present wants
and the majority took more than it wa
possible for them TO carry to place o
safety Heated by the fire and totteriu;
under their heavy loads. they dropped
much Of their burden on the way, to b'
afterwards burned. Soon there was bu
little effort to save property, and all tha
the mass of those living in the burnt dis
trict thought of was to escape the terrible
heat and the danger of loss of life from
falling walls and the rushing flames. 4"
can only" said Mr. Parker, compar
the manner in which the fire was KEEP
going to a coal fire in a CRATE, whicl
started and left to itself will burn slowly
but when the blower is applied, it begin
to burn with rapidisy. The heavy gall
of wind prevailing at the time acted witt
the same effect as blower to a CRATE
and spread the fire with such speed tha
it would seem incredible to me, had no
seen it with my own eyes"