Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-04-30


visited by two disastrous fres-Sun'
day and Thursday-each about the
same hour of the day.
Sundays fire started about II
o'clock, e. M, in stable on the prop
erty of Henry Rehs, near the G. & P,
railroad track, and rapidly communi-
Gated itself to stable and ice house
adjoining, and row of three-story
frame buildings standing near by,
owned by Mr.. Rehs. A frame build
ing owned by Mr.. Cramer was also
destroyed. @. F. Newman, mail
agent on the G. & P. railroad, and
we'll known in this place, lost about
$3.50 in household goods. Henry
Rehs' loss is fully $4,000, covered
by about Sc, 900 insurance.
Thursdays Fire,-About Ills a.
M, Thursday, Rev, Mr.. Staufer step,
ped into Miller Bros. store saying
Mrs. Bridget Hoqan's building, near
ly opposite, was on fire and asking for
the loan of buckets. His request YVES
quickly granted. 1t was soon discover
ed, however, that mere bucket work
would not meet the crisis. The Cum
berland fire department were appeal
ed to, and in reply to call the B. &
D. r. shopmen, at Piedmont, turned
out with their engine. A large body
of property was threatened with des-
truction; the flames spread from Mra.
Hogans building to ]. H. G. Getty's
edifce on the north; thence to Miller
Bros double tenement, where they
were stayed by brick wall and some
effective work by the B. & 0. engine.
The burning Of this building would
have imperiled a long row on the
south on each side Of the street; the
wind was favorable to such disaster.
Just then some one rushed in and
asked
Mr.. Miller, can we pull down
your house to save the others p
Eyes, sir, promptly answered Mr..
Miller; eff you think it necessary to
save our neighbors property, pull it
down quick as possible r
Along with the indomitable, super
human efforts to remove this edifce,
there were many others working like
beavers to save other threatened
properties, viz Hon. Patrick Ham
ills row of four tenements; Charles
Pagenhardt's factory and Miller Bros.
storehouse.
At IL as p. m, the fire was stayed;
the Pioneer company from Cumber-
land arrived in time to get in some
fine work. To this company, the B.
& o. company and employees, and
the neighbors those who wero burned
out and those saved from burning are
grateful for prompt, noble, self-sacri-
fcing effort.
]. H. @. Getty lost one building, used
both az store-house and dwelling,
and stock of goods. He was the
heaviest loser; no insurance. Mrs.
Hogan lost house used by herself as
a dwelling, store and saloon; no insur-
ance. Millers' tenement house badly
! WI ecked; no insurance; damage to
store-house and stock by heat and
flooding, 5000; insured. Messrs.
Charles Pagenhardt, Benz. Wright,
Samuel Fazenbaker, @. F. McAleer
and Mrs. Cunningham sustained dam
aga by removals of furniture, etc.
Messrs. John S. Miller, of Miller
Bros, Washington Montgomery, and
three others whose names we could
not learn, were overcome by the heat
Those named were carried from the
ground and placed in charge of Dr.
J. B. Miller.
A defective hue in Mrs. Hogan's
house is supposed to have originated
the fire.
The train carrying the Pioneer
company made the run from Cumber.
land to Piedmont, % miles, in SIS
minutes, including a stoppage at
KEY ser.
The JOURNALS representative il
indebted to Messrs. Miller Bros. ior
courtesies.
MINING NoTEs.-.The men employed
on the Borden tram-road, about fifteen
in number, struck last Monday for
$l.75 per day. The wages they had
been receiving was $l.25.
A number Of the Hampshire miners
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