The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-21
Fire ut OsccOla PennsyIvamin.
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IYRoNE, May 2O.-A large fire is rag.
ing at O0Ceula The Western Um9n
Telegraph office is burned and all com.
munIGaIlons are severed Fire engines
have been sent from this place.
TYRuNE, Pa, MAY 2O.-A fire brokc
ou1at II o'clock this morning at the Ma.
shannon Lumber Company's mill, west Of
Osceola, lj,OOO,OO0O iect OF Lumber was
burned, The wind was so strong that
hFe-bramdS two feet long were thrown to
most all parts OF the town Of O.crola
FIRES broke out in every quarter. An
public building, except the Catholic and
Methodist churches, were burned About
2OO houses are destroyed Twelve hun.
dred people are houscIcss. The people
we're driven 10 the race course, where
'hey were surrounded by fire from all
sides. The fire department left at O'Clock
with their steamer aud hose carriage, but
could not reach O-Ceola on account of
the railroad track being burned The
road between O.ccOla and Puwellton on
either side is one blaze OF fire. The mem.
bers OF the Tyrone Company fought their
way through and rendered all the assist.
ance possible, About two hundred houses
are yet standing. Some half dozen were
burned between Osceola aud PowelltOn.
Sheriff Mcpherson left HoulzIalo ut
'Ihn nj that l,,,,. Il,
fourteen houses were burned there and
the conGagration was raging terribly.
There Ia no escape for the town, every
communication being cut off by the fire
through the woods, At this writing
Hoop 4 Humes, Taylor & Mashannon,
lumber companies; IIei's big mill and
Elliott 4 Caldwell, lumber saw mill;
Crawford's foundry and 3O,OO0,OOO feet oi
lumber were destroyed. At O,CcOla the
loss, about 100000; insurance generally
very light, Up to the latest reports no
lives were lost. The people are In desli.
tute circumstances, they having lost their
property and everything else. The miners
who were OH strike are reported Us
working diligently to save llouIzdale.
The woods between Tyrone and Phillips
burg are on fire,
BgLLErourE, Pa. NAV 2O-An oxtra
train left here this evening for SNOW.
sbno with n LARGO bndv NJ mnn from tho
Valentine work. In nil in rLecking tLn
Gros In ,bot ro"ion Nina H. n, Gnn," M
shoe Is burned. About 70 feet Of trcstlc
work Of the railroad has been destroyed
aI"no & " ,Ho roo% "s "so I" "m e'V"i n"d
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LATER
About l3 cars have been burned at
Snowshoe, and about 800 or 1000 tons OF
coal and all the houses about the mines
are destroyed, CreaJers mills and
large lot OF lumber were destroyed, also
lot Of lumber belonging to the BellclOrtc
car works.
PoTrsTvILLE, May 2O.--Thl' morning
an attempt was made to burn shcnan.
doah. Al Riles's hotel it was di'corered
that coal oil and Lighted ma'chcs had
been thrownln windows In live minute,
after the discovery was made a second
"'"i III ""S sO"'u'u ~ "'' O'IIcI HIItC'iuHt
and II dwelling house and carpenter 'hop
burned to the ground, and while the fire.
men were working on the adjoining build
ings Il third alarm was given uptown, II
lumber yard bud been fired aud partially
destroyed The citizens are very mncn
alarmed Nigil"nt Committees aud Com.
mlttee' oi safety have been organized.
Charles Lays was arrested THIS nIte,'
noon charged wlth being connected with
!he incenIIary hres' and was held IN
SI,o0o jail t" answer "t the next term ol
OGHr1'
Inc llre' on me mountains continue,
anu me hea'yy winds nave spread them
,I9Pidly IN all directions lhe citizens OF
M,iludieport teIegrapheu 10 the POI!svlIIr