Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-27
From Yesterdays Seco1d Edition.
BEEE FERE RECORD.
Three Alarms HLtal., sweBTy- -Four
HOnTs

AhESS a shEEAAS tL~s-s- " SN
HOnTs
The fire epidemic OOutii uss withOu
abstement. At about a quarter befOr
two o'clock yesterday morning the fir
alarm rang out upon The still air
arousing the slumbeTiDg Inhabitants
The fire was found to have originate,
in the kitchen of the residence Of tn
widow of Wiley Mabry, co!oreJ, OF
Crozier street. The alarm soon gath
cred large crowd, who rendered val
liable assistance in getting every thing
of any consequence ont of the house
except the cooking-stove. The fir
was well kept in check, also, by tht
use OF buckets.
The fire department was out with
praise worthy promptness, soon haC
water or ii aud the fire was soon effect
ualIy quenched, having only burned
the kitchen part, the loss being com
parativeiy small. An out house of Mr.
Snydei's who lives adjoining, was
also partially burned, and torn down
which was all the damage to him, eX-
cept the tearing away offeneing. This
is the fret instance for many day.
where The house which caught on fire
has been saved, and attests the eff
cheney Of the department.
AS to the cause, The general imprCs
sion ems to be that il must have
been incendiary. The residents say
there had been no fire at al
in the kitchen since neon that day
The fire seemed, to those first seeine
it, to have originated, however, jus
around the stove fiue, and it was pos
sibly accidental, but Developments
since that time, rather force the i'm
preston OF iucendiarism, but wha
could be the object can lot be i'm
agined. Various Tun0Es, unnecessary
to mention, are sfloat.
The second alarm was given about !
o'clock last night. This also brought
out the engines, but they were notified
the fire was out before going far. This
was the clearest, and yet the mos
mysterious case yet. It hap
pened at the house Of a colored
woman named Mrs. Cofman, on
Crozier street, just two doors from
where the first fire was, with only Mr..
Snyder's residence between. A little
one-armed boy named Mayes saw
from across the street blaze under
the house, and gave the alarm. He at
the same time ran and with a vessel OF
water went under and put it out, be-
fore it had burned anything.
This house stands very near to SDy-
der's, there being a space IF not more
than three feet between, and the en-
trance under the floor is between.
Upon investigation there was found
under there little collection of
pine akindliDg, rags, paper, ETC.,
and there had, beyond doubt,
been fire kind led up, but the ques
ton j., by whom. 1t seems almost
incred ible that an incendiary could
have chosen such public and uncon-
cealable place as that, and at that time,
before dark, to get in job of his Sc
ries of hellish deeds; but whether or
not it be the work OF the devil born,
incendiary, or some careless
and mischievous and I'm thoughted
children, the results are all the same.
This frequent occurrence of fires, some
Of them, at least, clearly incendiary,
Is assuming alarming proportions,
and must be stopped 1t
g imperative, and we must
nave the blaek-hearted villain or viii
aims who are the perpetrators. There
ore, 1t not only behooves verybody to
exercise extra precautionary measures,
)ut there must be something done to
erret it out. 1t has gone far enough,
cts call halt.
Still another, and the third alarm,
vas given about nine o'clock. This |
ime there was greater promptness
han ever before, and it was astonish-
ng how quick Slug Thompson, with
Thompson & jones' team, was on
lands and hitched in. A paid de-
'srtment could not have been quicker.
after both engines were fired and
Iitched up, however, and had driven
ii over town, almost every ward in
he city having been sounded, it was
discovered that a fire in the country,
vest of the city, and beyond Sharp's
Ridge, evidently the burning off Of
ew ground, or something of the
ind, had caused the alarm. This fire
ad been seen there all day.
On Broadway, New York, the great
a prominent feature of
ven that famous street, convenient to
II places of interest, and noted for its
luxurious appointments situated
ne Grand Central Hotel, which is,
ow kept on both plans the American
$3.50 to $500, and the European at