Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-07-23
for the safety Of property on the mort
side Of the city.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND PROGRESS OF
THE FIRE.
The following general description of
the progress the fire and the efforts of
the fire department to get it under con
troll is furnished by the Times:
Nearl y east of the shanty where the
fire originated was the large brick oil
refinery of Fitch Brothers, the interior
OF which, with its large tanks of oil,was
all ablaze before the arrival Of the sec
ond engine. The heat emitted by the
burning OF the contents was immense,
and when the walls fell, which was but
few minutes after the first stream was
played upon it, the whole neighbor-
hood within radius of forty rods seem
ed to burst forth in one simultaneous
blaze. just north of the rag shop was
one and a half story barn filled with
hay, which famed up in an instant, and
flying wisps of burning hay lit upon
roofs nearly block away. With such
rapidity did the fire spread, after it was
first discovered, that two horses in the
were burned to death before they could
be rescued
Eight or ten engines from the 1st
district were speedily on the ground,
and most of them took their stations on
Clarke street, when Marshal Benner at
tempted to check the northern spread
of flames. Engine No 81 and one 9th
er were stationed on Fourth avenue, and
a vigorous fight with the advancing foe
was commenced at this point in ten
minutes after the first alarm The pine
shanties stretching eastward towards
Fourth avenue were all in flames for
nearly half square at 4:40 o'clock
Eleven minutes after the first alarm
Assistant Marshal Sweeny turned on
the second alarm. and engines from a
greater part of the southern division
and from several of the west-side en-
CINE houses were soon at the scene Of
peril. The heat arising from that half
acre OF blazing pine shanties was terrible
and the breeze stiffened as the heat in
creased, bearing destruction to the dry
roofs that lay in the path of the destroy
er for rods ahead. A large part of the
augmented fire force was concentrate
on Fourth avenue, half way between
Taylor and Twelfth streets, where they
worked with terrible energy to stay
the progress of the advancing enemy.
In twenty minutes after the first alarm
the roofs of buildings on Fourth ave
nue. were all a6re for the width of
dozen buildings north of 235.
AT 4.21 o'clock the general alarm was
sounded. This last warning brought
out the entire fire force of the city. At
the time the alarm was struck seven of
the west~side engines were at small
fire on the corner of Ashland Avenue
and Twenty second street, and were
thus retarded nearly half an hour. In
less than an hour the engines that were
posted on the Fourth avenue, directly
in path of the fire, were compelled to
retreat, and all succeeded in getting a.
way except Engine Company No. FL,
the colored company, which delayed
minute too long, and the flames burst
in upon them before they had attached
their horses to the engine, they were
compelled to abandon 1t.
Another Fire.
CHICAGO, July 15-8 P. M-Anoth
er fire broke out about 4 80 P. M. in
the northwestern part of the city, in
the vicinity of the junction of Milwau
kee and Chicago avenues. Fifteen or
twenty buildings, comprising stores,
saloons, planning and carpenter shops,
burned in short time, the flames bes
ing famed by the brisk northwest
breeze, and fed by very infammable
material. The fire department was
promptly on the ground, and By most
vigorous efforts succeeded in checking
the progress of the fire before it did
further damage than already stated.
Considerable excitement prevailed
for time. A repetition Of the scenes
of last night was feared.
LATER.
The FIRE originated in Dugan's smoke
house, in the rear of his packing estab-
lishment. Nearly an entire block was
burned, but the buildings were mostly
Of an inferior sort. One planning mill
was destroyed, with some valuable
machinery and patters. The loss is es-
timated at 100000
During the progress of this fire two
attempts at incendiarism, in the same
neighborhood, were discovered and frus
trated. In one case kerosene was u.s.
ed
Another alarm was soundee from the
corner of Wabash avenue and Madison
street about 6 o'clock p NJ. but the