The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-19

FRS. IAN alarm oil Are about eight
o'clock Saturday might came from "Aleckv
Young's pharmacy corner Of Jacob and
Sixteenth streets, and was caused by
slight blaze In q stable belonging to ]. r.
Greer, Esq, on Fourteenth street, above
Jacob, The fire was put out by neighbors,
before the department arrived. This
is The second fire within few days In this
same stable. The owner Is at q loss TO de-
termine their cause, although they are
evidently the work OF an incendiary.
!lROlller-Last night about o'clock q
fire was discovered In stable belonging
10 IL. j. Stolley, on the alley above Mar
ket street on Twenty.third. When dis
covered 1t was Just starting and was put
out without sending in an alarm,
Sill AnOLher.-At $3.50 r. NJ, general
alarm was struck, the cause being small
fire in a wash house belonging 70 j. 6.
Hoffman,, Jr., in the rear OF his resi.
dence on Chapline street near alley 10.
The fire started in barrel filled with
shavings and kindliDg wood, and was
doubtless incendiary, as no one had been
in tho house for some time before. The
fire was extinguished without the aid Of
the department, which, however, was
promptly on hand.
And YI Ailother.-Scarcely had the crowd
returned from the Hoffman blaze when
lurid glare lii up the sky in the direction
Of Manchester, in East Wheeling, and 80
brilliant and large was the reflection that
very many people supposed it 10 be either
the Reymann brewery or Whitaker Iron
Works. 1t turned out, however, 10 be q
small but very combustible frame stable
belonging TO Mrs. Catherine McDermott,
situated in Alley Fifteen, just east o! Jacob
street Owing TO the very inaccessible
situation OF this stable, and the very
muddy condition OF the streets, consider
able difficulty was experienced in getting
the engines into position, and the stable
was almost consumed before water was
thrown on the flames. Assoon as the at
tachments were made, however, the fire
was very quickly put out, and the danger
so imminent to surrounding houses was
over.
The stable was only small affair, and
was used as q COW stable. II had just been
filled with hay, aud contained other stuff.
The whole loss will not exceed 500, upon
which there is reinsurance. Much diff
Guilty was encountered at this fire on ac-
counto the condition OF the fre.plugs,
which were filled with mud and sand ,
and necessarily interiercd with successful
water. throwing. The matter has been re.
ierred TO once or twice before in the pub.
lie prints, and immediate attention should
be given 1t by the proper authorities.
Six fires, the causes OF which are un-
known, have taken place in the last week
or len days IN this city, two OF them in the
same building. These fires with one ex.
ception have been attended with little, il
any loss, but the frequent occurrence and
the unaccountable origin have had a
tendency to cause feeling Of alarm and
insecurity. throughout the city, taking
place as they have in different quarters,
and inwhat might be called remote places.
After the last blaze OF last night we met
Major Sweeney and asked him what he
thought OF the occurrences in this direc.
ton.
"My opinion is that they have been set
on fire for the purpose Of stealing and rob-
berry. The situation OF the fires, and the
well known fact that Wheeling turns out
in body to fire, induce this belief
There is a crowd or gang in this city now
under the surveillance Of my police that
would do most anything"
Other prominent citizens were inclined
TO think the same way, and when We met
the Chief OF the Fire Department. VIM.
Eccles, few minutes afterwards, he also
was oil the opinion that the fires OF recent
happening were the work OF incendiaries,
for the purpose OF stealing.