The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-14
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN PIEDMONT.
This morning just about 4 o'clock
fire was discovered in Lannon's
building on Ashfield Street. Within
very short time the streets were
completely filled with people, all
anxious to aid in staying its progress.
And though many, very many in
deed, worked nobly and manfully,
amid the smoke and flying cinders,
yet some two hours elapsed ere sue
cess crowned the efforts of the work.
ers, and some six or seven residences
and business places were entirely de-
stroyed.
Besides the building owned by Mr..
Peter LannOn, in which the fire orig
mated, and which by good fortune
was at the time unoccupied, the fol-
lowing can be counted in the loss:
The building on the right, owned by
Mr.. w: A. Thrasher, and occupied
by Mr.. Blondell as a tin ware estab-
lishment - residence of Mr.. John
Heck, owned by Mrs. Brown Of
Hampshire Hill - three buildings
standing on the left of where the fire
originated - one occupied by Mr..
Geo. Clink,- by Mr.. c. Moran,
in which he resided, and was in part
used as a saloon and restaurant-and
one owned and occupied by Robert
Ravenscraft.
Several buildings were demolished
by the people in order to save them
from the fire and protect other prop
erty in the immediate vicinity. The
buildings occupied by Mr.. Dreamer
and Mr.. Lynch, owned by Mr.. J. S.
Jameson, were thus made way with
together with quite number of back
buildings of the houses facing a back
street.
During the spread Of the fire sew
eral persons were more or less in
jured, and any number of men and
boys were to be found with torn
clothing and torn hands; and with
their faces black and dirty from the
efforts they had made to subdue the
flames. Mr.. Charles McAleer, Mr..
Jn0. Muir, and VIM. Montgomery
were among those who were some
what seriously injured. The two
latter having fallen from roofs of
houses, and the former being injured
by the falling of a portion Of frame
building.
Many families in the neighborhood
both on Ashfield and back streets,
had their furniture moved from the
houses in fear of a more rapid spread
of the Fire Fiend.
Just about the close of the fire,
three fire companies arrived from
Cumberland, accompanied by their
engines, &C., they having been tele-
graphed for by our Mayor, j. V.
Bell. There being no pressing use
for them on there arrival, they re-
turned Immediately to Cumberland.
We learn the following as the in
surance on the property destroyed:
Mr.. Con Moran, in the Canadian,
50, 800, A1tna, Wheeling, 81 ,OOO; Mrs.
Brown, Wheeling Insurance Com
pany, $500; Mr.. Peter Lannon,
Wheeling, $500.
AS far as we have been able to
gather in the few moments at our
disposal the losses are as follows;
Robt. Ravenscraft, $4,000, r. S. jam
essen, $1,000 Henry Dreamer, 500;
John II eek, $3.50; w. A. Thrasher,
800 Emil Neffien, $50; Geo. Clink,
$3.50 John White, S600.-Piedmont
independent, 9th.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND MURDER
IN GRANT COUNTY.
Passengers on Thursdays stage,
from Moorefield, broughts rumors of
the mysterious disappearance and
probable murder of mail carrier Hi
ser, who carries the mail on horse
back from a point above Petersburg,
in Grant county, to Moorefeld. La
ter in the evening, the Grant mail
brought us, the following painfully