Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-05
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Tremendous Excitement, FOrtu-
nateIy About Not Very Much.

Tremendous Excitement, FOrtu.
nateIy About Not Very Much.
Way up or down 1--WE give it up) on
Munroe street, towards the Eureka Con.
works, an unoccupied house, said to be
owned by John Capron, situated between
Sholderer's dwelling on the south and
Col. Riley's on the north, caught on fire
at $50 yesterday evening. There is con-
siderable particularly about this, but a
fire is something to be particular about
i'll Eureka. The first persons on the scene
were Mcmahon of the laundry and Maggie
Green. From their statements combined
We are led to believe that the fire was
set in several places, three, maybe four,
underneath the ground floor which stands
considerably above the surface. That it
was the work of ~incendiaries we dc not
believe. 1t was hardly the place or the
time for work Of theirs. Besides, Louis
Brandt extorted, in some way or other
that is a secret in detective service, from a
woman living near by, that she saw a lit
tie girl come from under the building but
a short time before the alarm of fire was
sounded. She was there at play and in
her cunning little way probably set off a
handful or so of matches to watch them
phiz up and make some rustic among the
combustible rubbish strewn around. This,
remember, is only a quid nunc's specula-
ton. He doesn't belong to the detective
force of Eureka, and hence is unable to
speak with positive and proper assurance.
The damage lone to the shanty is estimat-
ed variously at from So rs to 81 %.
The alarm had hardly tapped twice be-
fore the Rescues were on hand with a mob
of friends. The hose cart was whizzed
up Tor DOWN the street with such rapidity
that it swept the hats off all the Cinnamon
in front of their quarters and put out the
fires in their brass pipes. There is moth
ing to equal the energy of firemen and
their undisciplined mob of friends. At
the corner of Clark street the cry came
this way along the line: The fires out !'
Pretty soon a spirited young man, not of
any fire company, but rich in orders for the
crowd, sprang into the air and was taken
for a prize member of the Olympic Club.
He was only about to issue an order and
wished to be listened to-. Bring on the
machine, he yelled, ''turn yourselves loose
unless you want the whole d-n town to
go up" Then followed a 100 yards squirt
down the hill, when the end of the hose
flew off the carriage and up into the air
like the head of a mad snake. And the
fire still 200 yards off. AT this moment
the Hooks e. Knicks appeared with their
hose cart, coming up an alley way, nearly
opposite the scene of the conflagration-
which could not be seen except by those on
the inside. They, the insiders, yelled out
to the assaulting firemen, in the lead of
whom was Dave Slender, with the pipe
in his grasp and blood in his eye, "Hold
your water" But the Hooks q Knicks
did not come there to make spectacles of
themselves in that way; and when Fore
man Douglas in stentorian voice thrice or
dered them to turn on their water, they
just let it fly. 1t was a surprise to R. Sad
Ter, who was one of the insiders and had
not a%pprehended such an emergency. He
danced about for awhile, not being able to
make up his mind whether to risk the
water or the ghost Of the fire that had been
but had been subdued by a neighbours
garden squirt hose. He risked the latter,
and emerged unhurt to the admiration Of
the excited crowd.
The Mob Hill Hose Company has been
largely recruited lately by the addition of
the horny-handed toilers of that celebrated
quarter. These, among whom was the
present undersigned, flew to the scene of
the fire, altogether unmindful Of the new
allegiance they had taken upon themselves,
and stood in with (among) the boys who
run the other machines. The veterans of
the Mob Killers, however, climbed up to
their eyre, and there rested until they got
q telegram that il would not be necessary
for them to descend. We will all be there
when there is any use for us. but we have
a way of finding out when there is no need
of getting hot thet Is remarkable and in
falliblo.
Our City Fathers had better nave the
hydrant at the door Of the Resoues' house
looked after. The top OF it gets filled with
water and is liable to freeze, not !mme-
diately. but any night next Winter, and,
Of course, just whom it would be DISASTROUS
foG it to freeze.
We were informed, post s~eriptum, by Mr..
that he went TO the burnt house
after everything had become quiet and by
close examination found that it had boon
set afire in three different places inside,
and not underneath as above stated; and
that hs has additional evidence to satisfy
him that the fire was the work Of an in
cendiary. Go for him, Louis, and catch
him, and YOU shall he known hereafter as
Napoleon.