The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-03

rocked herself to and fro, and looked upon
skirts of the fire was an old
gentleman rolling around on the
grass and calling bimself all the names in
the catalogue for leaving his house when the
IRE broke oUs 10 60 up town. Said he"lJust
went up to the postoffice, like a blasted fool
that was, and in ten minutes my brother
in-law came to me and told me that my own |
house and all the furniture which left in /
seeming safety had gone to blazes.' |
The members of the GTeencastle town
council have been considering the purchase
of fire engine for some time. The fact
that they have been making rips to this city
and Evansville, and were at the time )f The
fire in Louisville pricing fire engines, was
commented upon freely, and the opinion was
expressed that if, instead OF spreeing
around, the city fathers had bought an en-
CINE in Indianapolis when they first started.
much loss would have been avoided. The
same impression has no doubt by this time
impressed itself upon the belabored search
ers for fire protection,
SAVED FROM THE GENERAL WRECK.
The court house yard and the streets on
both sides of The fire were filled with goods
and household furniture scattered about in
endless confusion, costly goods, and even
cases filed with jewelry were piled up at
random, and strange to say there were no
cases reported during the day of any
| large thetts. The court house
yard at o'clock was cleared
of every one at the order Of Mayor Allen,
and an armed guard placed over the goods
there, while at other places they were stored
away as soon as possible in place OF
safety.
PREPARED FOR BUSINESS.
Under the natural impression that the
Wholesale destruction had been the work
of vile incendiaries, the citizens were quite
bitter, and had they caught any of these
they would very quickly have been
treated to dose of hemp. During the FORE
noon meeting of all the leading citizens
was held in the court house, and strong
vigilance committee was formed to guard
| against any repetition of the nights work,
and resolutions were adopted to the effect
| that summary punishment would be dealt
out to any one caught setting fire to
property. The suspicion of incen-
diarism is justified by the fact that
tie town has been filled lately with
tramps and Migrants. 1t was but on Mon
day evening that the residence of Mrs. Cor
win was found saturated with coal oil and
on fire, no doubt the work of some hemp
deserving villain. Even during the great
fire buildings out of the way of the fire were
| found to be in flames which led many to
Inlnk inc bugs were, even Wnllo the
town was burning down, still plying their
devilish worK.
| THE SITUATION.
Though affairs do not at present look very
bright for the Greencastle folks. it is likely
that the enterprising and lively place
will in a short time recover much
OF the ground lost by the
fire, which, though it has swept
away so many OF its finest buildings, can not
destroy the fertile Putnam county soil
around it, nor rob it of the valuable trade
which it controls; and it is sincerely hoped
that year two will not only find the
place fully recovered from the check, but
more prosperous than ever.
i THE SCENE AT DAYLIGHT.
With the coming of daylight a rare and
sad scene was presented in the ruins. The
air which had become cooler and felt the
more so because of the subduing of the heat,
made the groups of people sitting among
the debris around a blaze, huggIng
themselves and lamenting the sad fate, a
sight that can not be portrayed. The ma
jority of citizens had gone to their homes to
| get breakfast, and others whose places had
been in danger were busy carrying the
hastily moved furniture into their houses.
The fire companies from here had extin-
guished all the smouldering fires they could
reach with 1900 feet of hose. 1t
was decided to attach the hose TO the Terre
Haute engine and have the water carried on
through their hose 70 a greater distance.
The attachment was made, and the "No. 8, !"
of this city, hardly began working before il
was discovered that her pressure even
through so much hose, was too heavy for
the little machine. In moment more this
was verified and some of the latter's ma
chinery was broken. The entire hose of the
two companies was then put in one line and
WATER THROWN WITH MUCH FORCE
in any part of the ruins. The "boys" were
then invited to breakfast by Mayor Allen
and they did not lose much time in the
acceptance OF his invitation. The Asbury
students were dismissed for the day, and
soon after breakfast time, they began circu-
lating around the "DuInt district with
school books under their arms
and society badges on the lap
pels of their vests. 1t was
undoubtedly wise thing to dismiss them
as they all looked as though they had been
up all night, and their Latin and Greek quo.
tations of lament sounded sleepy. About {
o'clock the
J was started, and a barn was discoveredfo be
on fire in the northeastern part of the town
The reels were ''rattled" over there, and
again did the Amoskeag show good
work in throwing powerful stream on the
} small shanty that was serving as stable fol
Mr.. Brdgewater. The loss was very light
and there was no doubt but what it was the
work of the same gang who are infestiDg the
town. The extinguishing of this fire used
all the water in the spring basin and the in
tention of filling the cistern near the court
house mad to be abandoned. In converse.
ton with several gentlemen from the north
of the city it was learned that large tract OF
of woods was on fire ana that the farmers
had been
FIGHTING 1T ALL NIGHT.
Assistant Chief Whitsett decided, about s
o'clock, to take his complement to the depot
and send the engine and reels home, as they
could do no good if the IRE should again