The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-27
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rHE DEPARTMENT cALLEp ON THREE. T1aEs
YEsTERp4Y--4LARM IN nh q WEST! AND AND
8 CENTRE oR THE CFTY--L L0ssEs.s.A AND i iS-
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The Fire Department had 4 busy day yes.
terday. The meH, horses, ana apparatus
were kept in a constant state of excitement
the liyeiong day, and az might ended the
DAVIS labors by(eEtinguishing2 q IRE which
ae one t,me presentedian alarming appear
anearand ,cansed grave apprehensions tnithe
minds a'ihundred .of spectators 'ans3
The first alarm was about l0:i5 A. M,
and was turned In at Station 3ls~ corner
Fourteenth and Main streets. The alarm
was occasioned by the bursting OF a water
gauge OF the engine in rear OF a. 81. Pol.
lard's coffee and grocery house, No. 1924
Main street, near the corner OF Fourteenth:
When ihe glass gauge. bursted, the rear
room, in which, coffee Is roasted on large
scale to supply the trade, as well as the store
in front, were filed with steam, and, hav-
ing the appearance OF smoke, caused The
alarm. The escaping steam could easily
have been stopped by little presence OF
mind; but no doubt all hands in the store
thought their time had come, and feared to
approach the boiler, where the trouble was.
Upon the arrival OF the fremen the fire in
the engine was. put out, and the steam gra-
dually subsided. Mr. Pollard's coffee
roaster was not interfered with or injured
in the least, and operations We're speedily
resumed. .,..,,-s.'.3.i; i.
THE next alarm was at 4:20 p. NJ. and
was sounded from Station IS, corner Spring
and Pine streets. It was caused by. the
burning of woodwork near stove at No.
626 Church street, Oregon Hill. No dam
age: - ,.E-1.. ~ -s-,.
The last and most serious alarm came
in ut 9:35 p. NJ, from Station a., corner
Tenth and Byrd streets, and was caused by
the burning OF the Haxal!- Crenshaw cooper
shop, situated in front Of their milling
property, near the corner OF Tenth street,
and between Byrd street and the river. Z
The cooper-shop, which belonged to the
Haxall- Crenshaw Company, was an old
structure and OF little value, although twas
occupied By Mr.. s. 9. Fairbanks, who, by
contract, furnished the Haxall- Crenshaw
Company with barrels. The Company did
not even think it of sufficient value to in
sure it: and its total destruction, therefore,
involves trifling loss. The loss sustained
by Mr.. Fairbanks, however, is not so light.
He estimates it at 81 500, upon which ne has
an insurance ION stock and tools) OF $1,000
with Major J. III. Claiborne.
The building contained 1000 newl y-made
-four barrels; $4,000 hoop-poles, and about
$4,000 slaves, which were all consumed.
The infammable material in the building,
as we'll as the building itself caused the
fire to make rapid headway, and in very
l>,,iIi nj n ghppt
from one end to the other. The heat was in
tense. Old tiremen say they haven't expert
enced anything like 1t for years; but they
fought brayely, and doubtless by their deter
mined efforts saved j very serious and disas-
trous fire. Companies A, b, and G-the brst
two steamers, aud the latter Tenth-street hose
company-responded to the first alarm and
went to work with creditable CELEBRITY.
Streams from companies B and & were put
upon the fire, the firemen standing within
the brick repair-shops adjoining the mills,
where they were for time protected from
the heat. These two streams kept down the
flames on the south corner OF the old cooper
shop, and no doubt saved the brick build
ing referred to. While this was going on
in the vicinity of the repair-shop two
streams from Company AS engine were
playing steadily and effectively on other
portions of the fire, and finally, by half-past
10 O'Clock, the flames were pretty much
subdued; but it was past O'Clock before
The hose was reeled up and the men sent
back to their houses.
just before 10 O'Clock second alarm was
turned in, which brought out Company. D,
from Brook avenue; but the Chief Engi::
neer, after keeping Captain Wingfeld and
his steamer near at hand for time. con-
cluded they were not needed, and 80 they
were sent back to their enSine-house.
The window-frames and doors OF the
repair-sbop were burned or scorched, but
beyond that damage the brick property
was not at all injured
More than five thousand people were at
one time on the ground, watching the pro.
gress Of the fire, and all that part OF the
city was brilliantly illuminated before the
flames were Sllbdued,