, 1873-06-09
FIRES.
burning OF Oil, Cars, and Lumber In
Cincinnati =. LoRs, 8170,000 =. Fires

burning OF Oil, Cars, and Lumber In
Cincinnati ~ Loas, s170, 1000 =. Fires
EIaosxhoro.
C1ao1NNAr1, O., June ga fire doing $170,
14Go barrels Of ooal-oA, as freight cars. mostly
loadod, q lumber yard With 5000, 900 foet, mostly
hard, lumber, and II dwellings. most Of them
small frame cottagoa. at balf-pnat u o'clock,
calling out the entire department with re-
Reryos. Engines from Covington and Newport
came and aided. Tho fire broke out IN tho yard,
Of tho Marietta l. Cincinnati Railroad in IN opon
framo storage she'd about 800 feet long, situated
and Park streets. Tho shed contained 1,40o
barrels Of coal oil shipped hero from Parkera-
burg md STORED for deaiera in this city. Rumorb
nro numerous as to how the fire caught. It fa
generally beloved that lot Of boys playing aet
over tho road on Smith Btroot Rays he first Baw
in the shed q aame not larger than
hat; then saw. it burnt suddenly up
with soyoraa euoooaaive EXPLOSIONS, onVoaopinE
by tho 1ailroad arrived On tho spot before tho
barrels exploded, and commenced rolling barreln
away, when other explosions occurred 30 rapidly
that they with difficulty escaped. locomotive
attempted to draw tho cars from a soriea OF ad-
joining tracks in tho yard, but was unable to np-
proaoh Oh account Of the intense heat Twenty
cals were showed by hand from tho track moat
distant from tho shed. Ton OF tho cara loft OK
posed to tho fire were loaded with sulphur, tho
enng S sga Ssn Seo, 'f? rba F'gaSa sgapuf f fes
s0f!Isss L. Inncastsr A of tho Marietta road, was
seriously injured By inhaling them while trying
to anye the cars. Ton of tho cars wore burned
st1oyed, while tho remaining: tiftoen, with their
contents, wero badly damaged. This 1osB Of cars
and freight fallH on the Marietta & Cincinnati
Railroad. Thirty-Beyen. hundred dollars worth
I,1no L.. lad ~
pieces. South Of tho shed Tho flro sproad to tho
fumber-yard Of z, Roberts Il Co., extending on
the north sl4e OF socona Htroet, from Smith
street nearly to Port street. This WIS soon en-
tiIely envelopo4 IN aamea The lumber % was
street, from tho burning lumber, sixty feot dis
| tant from it, were three immense iron receivers
| Of the Gas Works. Tho Gas Company kopt ten
men on tho top Of tho tanks, with hose, throw
Ing water on the heated iron. Those receivers,
on the aide next the fire, were rod bot, aud nom:
| entarily In danger Of explosion, in which event
| It would have boen certain death to the men on
| top. Tho free ompanios did ali tho intonse heat
would permit them; The men at last had so
yards and burning dwellings, on Second, Park
aud South Pearl streets remained to bt
guenched. The department soon got control oi
tho fire, and tho gaa-reseryolrH Mors out Of dan
ger: ...
Tho heat was 30 intonHo ~ to fracture the
stone rims to the gas tank on Second stroot
The fire communicated to the fence Of tho Goa
yard Of the gus company, which IT complotei,
clarred. On Bocond street, near Park atreet
between Second ind South poaEl, and on Boutl
Poarl. from Park street cast to the lumber yard
the dwellings wore swept on. There wcr,
o1ghkoen OF them, four Of which wore two-ator.
BRICKS, tho remainder one aud two-story frames
They wore occupied by about forty families
most OF them poor Who wore turned homelesu
They succeeded III saving tho greater part o
thoir portable household onccts.
| 4 stablo, with two horses, was consumed.
The principal loHery OF tho dwellings, wero th
Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad Company, VIII
iam l}rist, N. i. II. Tudor, Mr. Stewart, Mra
OJubbon, and Hebo Gilmore.
The Losses will foot up about az follows: Z
Railroad In cars and freight, $751; 900 coal d
largely owned by two firms, Alexander MoDou
ald, and Durola1iardt, $4,000 dwelling houses
Sa5,o00 marble aud stone. $500 Household