The daily gazette., 1880-02-19
He was rescued by means


OF a ladder.
The loss already given in this article
was based upon the estimate furnished
last night. 1t is thought this morning
that 1t will not be near so heavy as that.
The loss on clothing, household goods,
ETC., will be from $500 TO $1,000. The
rear building is shaken very badly, and
1t Is feared that 1t will have to be torn
down. Ii such turns out to be the case,
the extent of the damage will be fully
$1,000. Even had the whole building
been burned down, it would have been
fully covered by insurance, The poll
cies held are as follows:
In the Delaware Fire Insurance Com
pany 50, .33 on the building; 81, ,4S3 .33
on the chapel, household, school and
kitchen furniture; $l66,66 on two plan
os, and $l6.33 ON an organ, making a
total of 5000. Exactly the same poll
cies are held In the Farmers' Mutual
and In the New Castle County Mutual
Insurance Companies, making the total
| amount Of Insurance fifteen thousand
dollars.
NOTES OF THE FIRE.
| Never were the iireinen so slow In get
ting into service as they were at this
fire. The run being rather short did not
| give much time for the engines to raise
steam, and when they arrived, thougi
the flames were bursting fiercely from
the windows, 10 was several mi utes be-
fore water could be applied. The delay
seemed unusually long to the people
looking on, and was most exasperating.
IL was full five minutes after the arrival
| OF the engines before q single stream was
| applied to the fire.
| More dlsgracsful "monkey business
was indulged in than at any fire for a
long time. When the long ladder of the
Washington truck was erected against
the building, men who started up ir were
repeatedly drenched by streams from the
| Washington and Fame engines. The
thorough drenching they received caus
ed them to desist, and in one or two in.
stances the men were almost knocked
fromthe ladder.
While thu fire was raging childish
fight with streams OF water occurred be-
tween the pipemen of the Fame Hose
aud Reliance, the latter being In the
building and the former on Sixth street
The fight waged fiercely for few min
ntes. the men playing the streams dI-
rectly upon each other, but fortunately
Asst. tant Engineer Dutton, of the Fire
Department, was equal to the emergen-
cy, and promptly put an end to the dis-
|
both engines. This action almost caused
a fight with some of the Reliance mem-
bers, hut an actual conflict was happily
| avoided.
Assistant Engineer Lukens was also
present at the fire, but Chief Engineer
McCrea did not put In an appearance
This was unfortunate, as the want oI
strict discipline was sadly apparent
Matthew Rogers, Of ths Water Witch
appeared At one OF the upper Windows
during the fire, apparently much ex
hausted, and through. his fireborn ca.leu
TO the pipe men below ito divert theIl
streams for AN instant, IN order TO Civ,
him chance TO cone down by one d
the ladders. No attention was paid I,
his appeals, AMI stream of water ful
In the face caused him To retreat ant
make his way down through the fire
and blinding smoke, as best he could
When he finally reached the pavemen
he was completely worn out and wa
compelled TO go home.
The steamers on the north side of th'
burning building scattered their waite
all over the premises in he most disa-
} trous manner. Ou the other hand ,thos,
operating from SIKH street, kept fou
sreaIns playing all the time into the tw {
windows uf the rO om where the fire pr'
vailed. Had the engines that operate,
from the north side not been in servic
at all, the loss from fire would hav
! been no greater, while the damage b.
water would have been much less.
, During the progress of the tire crowd
of people lined the adjacent sidewalks
Occasionally stray streams OF wate
would cause sudden scaIterment, au
in the rush ladies were several time
, knocked down, though none were In
iured to any extent,