Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1875-02-15

A Busy Night with the Eiremen.
FOUR LEGENDARY FIRES K1NDLEp IN SIN HOURS |
Two BUILDINGS DESTROYED AND ONE HORSE |
ROASTED TO DEATH-Two OTHER HORSES SERIOUS |
LY BuRNED-FRozEN FIRE PLUGS AND GREAT |
DIFFICULTY IN OBTAINING WATER
Since 1851 Wilmington has had no such ex
perielcc with incendiary fires as that of Satur-
urday night. Within few hours the incendiary
torch was applied to no less than four times in
different parts Of the city. There seemed to be
a determined effort to produce confagration-
ali effort which in some instances was attended
by more than ordinary risk in detection-and
but for the prompt, faithful and efficient labors
of the tremen with the propitious condition OF
the elements, we should have been called upon, |
to-day, to record much greater damage than
did result. On no former occasion can we remem- |
Der when the fremen acted with more GOODNESS
or better effect. There was no appearance of
Generalization among them; on the contrary
they seemingly acted under discipline which
might have been supposed to proceed from
long period of training. They were also very
gentemanly in their department within the dwell
lings in the immediate neighborhood of the
fires, and kindly assuring the nervous and timid,
devoted themselves assduously to the suppress.
sion of the flames and thereby saved to the pro-
perty owners whose property was endangered a
large sum of money 1t is d matter of general
remark that no body Of iiremen behaved
better under such trying circumstances (they
were i'll service the greater part of the night
and we have heard frequent expressions of
opinion by competent judges that there is no
city which can boast of a more thorough or bet
ter disciplined fire department than our own, be
the contrast made with Paid or Voluntary sys-
tenn
THE FIRST ALARM
was rung out about 10 O'Clock. and proceeded
from the burning of w. j. Morrow's roofing es-
tablishment and stable, i'll French street below
9TH. The building il a three-story. partly brick
and rarity frame, and is located i'll the rear of
the office some distance from the street. Very
high and tight board gates shut it completely
in and access Is only possible by climbing sew
eral fences and passing through neighbors'
yards. The ground floor of the building was
partly used for the storage of roofing material
and for stable III which Mr.. Morrow and David
Chandler each kept horses. In the second story
a portion had been used by VIM. H. Foulk as a
carpenter shop, but had not been in use for some
time, although some of MIR. Fonlks tools as
well as those of his workmen had been left
with hay and the third floor was unused. The
fire is supposed to have been kindled some-
where in the centre of the building. upon the
second floor, but being early discovered the hor-
SEES, tools and most all articles of any value were
removed The iiemen were promptly on the
spot, but owing to the frozen condition of the
fireplugs it was some considerable time before
q stream could be turned upon the building,
which wat by this time completely enveloped IN
| flame. Still the flames were quickly nubdued
| and the building saved in a much damaged con-
dltion second time the fire broke ont and an
| alarm was sounded, but all the engines had not
the hnrn;n,, buiI,liut, viii efnrtivo resi,It hi
| Iorows loss il estimated at 5950.-S $500 to the
| building and $50 to stock. The former WA
| insured through Woulley X Van Humps agon-
| The loaa tn tbe other na,tjps was small
1 .
be"NiS" VI h'"Nti " co"fEi r STABLES
Near one click the -leepers III the vicinity
| of the stables m the rear of 60i Orange street
| were awakened by the pitiful neishings of the
| Horse of Downey 4 Cooper which WAS suffering
| great pain from the terrible screenings which
another ihcehoiaiv hfe mad prodmced. The cry
ain,, ca,,,h ne NV ior Il, ,a 1870, ai ff
The ,s,tv isnll sno,, tl,ro,,,,h M al,nn reanad
the tir;.me, WHO ind paf vol re,iraa and ,YIa
nl,icll,, were il, tbe .traetu a.Sain Fartnnatai,
| tii,a Vota, W;tcb NJ III ,;.ittei T.. ,a,i ~ ~,
tirennos In tIa vic,,ity ani tI,avaJ H., et
| dnriun tIe nr.viona sfinrnoo1 mi nntritb
stara,,,, thia water was dannit to 5bta;n avn
tha tai1a "a +v,S .,,,s,, fr,,, w n ~
| consumed hefore stream Of 49,
could he ,,rr,eJ urot tHen, m. Ill
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| .o1;'i1,,ao ~ NJ g., - eno o
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| had tindled and almost all the Notwithstanding
was burned OIL, while the sash in the rear win.
| dows oil the residence Of WIN. Armstrong, next
door, was in flames. as was also the frame addl-
ton of john King, next in order above. This
| building was uaoccupied, although the furni-
ture OF Mr.. King was still i'll it, His family being
| temporarily resident with a sick relative. MISS
| Elizabeth Richards school room was also in
flames. Very soon, however, after the first
stream was put upon the fire, the flames
were suppressed, without any serious damage to
| the residences. The stables were entirely def
troyed and the horse III them roasted alive, two
wagons being the only alticlea saved. Mesara
| Downey 4 Cooper had about II 200 worth OF
hubs and other material stored in the stable
| none OF which were saved lneir TOTAL loss they
erana ra ,a,s, 1,vd IT, II 70 ~
Ganoh and we've VIZ ,,mdar1tsnJ insn,e =. ~ Ai''
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LAfEs CARPENTER SHOP on FIRE
Before the above fire was extiuguished a
fourth alarm was sounded but the fire was ex-
tngushed without any damage and before the
| Fire Companies arrived This alarm was caused
by the discovery Of flames in Harry Lape'4 car
| Peuler ahoP, orange street ABOVE ON, but The
re9ya from fhn aniidins t Ir,i,,s az ~
aId IN, IN i,,ild,, ,ra aaa5 Ge.
CO. rn fha iniislis, H. ca,'d,sr, ho% ,,iia &c
lot ri aIIaynga snd iav;,,r n9 ~ 49, To- ~
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