Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-29
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE DARING FIREBUGS Plying Their Work at
 Cleveland. TWO MORE FIRES YESTERDAY. Citizens Growing Anx- iOus and ReVengeful. BLAINE WITH THE GARFIELD DS Sunday Spent Quietly with
 the Family.
BLAINE WITH THE eARFIELDs
THE FIREBUGs HARD AT WORK.

THE FIREBUGS HARD AT WORK. Three Attempts made On Saturday To Burn the City of Cleveland Two More Fires Set Going Tester day.
 CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 29.-The organized gang of firebugs that infest this city are still hard at work, and yesterday they made three different attempts to burn down the city. The first fire was started about 9 o'clock in the yards of the Cleveland Sawmill and Lum- boring company, and, famed by strong southwest wind, spread with such rapidity as to excite the greatest alarm The fire depart ment, which has become exceedingly vigilant, responded with alacrity and within fifteen minutes ten steamers and two hook and lad der companies were heroically at work fight ing the flames. By this time several man. moth piles of lumber were on fire, and the principal building of the company was en- veloped in flames and apparently doomed The wind blew fercely and tongues of fire 1eaped high in the air, sending sparks and cin- ders across the river to the city. All work in the vicinity was suspended, and the men from neighboring yards and manufactories, with mu1titudes of citizens, rushed to the aid of the fremen. Fortunately the wind was blowing toward the river and over an area where there was but little to burn, and to this fact alone can be attributed the es- cape from 0 loss of property exceeding any thing heretofore reported. After a fight of an hour, the flames were gotten under con- trol, and finally extinguished, with loss to the company not exceeding $25, ,000. It was narrow escape, however, and the sighs of relief from the people were mingled with anathemas against the williams who had again jeopardized the city, and talks of lynching and roasting the perpetrators were Sawmill and Lumber company is To- cated on upper Central Way, about quarter of a mile from the scene of the for mer fires. Their yards cover twenty acres, and have storage capacity, outside of their mills, for 20, ,000,000 feet of lumber. The fire was started in the outskirts of the yards, among the lumber piles where no men had been at work for several days.
 While the attention of the crowd was ab- sorbed in the above fire flames were diseov- cred bursting from passenger coach and baggage car of the Connotton Valley rail road standing on the track halfn mile away, and in close proximity to wooden buildings
 
 engine was speedily attached to them and they were drawn down the track where there was no danger of firing anything else and were there quickly consumed. The loss on the cars is about $3, 800. A colored bootblack about considerable about the firing of the cars, was arrested and is held as 8 witness.
 An attempt was also made late in the after noon to burn the Perkins block, on the south side of the square A fire was started in some rubbish on the upper floor, and was burning briskly when discovered and ex- tinguished These incidents have intensified the feeling that already prevailed, and ven geance, swift and dire, is threatened if the guilty parties are caught, and it is safe to say that if a fire bugshould be detected in any part of the city he would be hanged to the first lamp post.
 The frebugs piled their vocation industri ously to-day The first alarm was received at o'clock this morning and was occasioned by the discovery of smoke issuing from the barrel and filling the house of Scofeld, Thurman & Teagle, connecting with their oil refinery The building was soon enve- loped in flames and was totally destroyed It contained 750 barrels of refined oil and the flames from the burn into the air. The building was one hundred by one hundred and fifty feet in size and with it's contents is total loss, amounting to $12, ,000. short time after fire was dis covered in the shoe shop of Michael Kamick, 627 Pearl street, but was exinguished before it had done much damage. This fire was started by pile of rubbish being saturated with oil and match applied. Up to midnight no other alarms have been turEed in. Prop erty owners are anxious and have placed special watchmen in and around their build inps