The Brookhaven leader., 1886-04-15
A THIRD FIRE.

ground q chemical engine arrived and
plaved stream on the fire, but Vt did
little good and the Hremen retired.
?. -.GrA THIRD FIRE. '.',..
At12il0 o'clock the watchman at the
Yards of the Cairo Short Line detected
another fire in the oil-sheds, which i'm
mediately burst forth and enveloped the
building in flames. 1t was a commOdious
wooden structure, rendered additionally
inflammable by the oil with which
fed bv barrels Of oil, swept
westward, and in few moments one Of a
long train of freight cars on the nearest
track caught Are. The wind, which had
been driving the flames In the direction
of the round-house and shops, grew as
the intensity OF the flames increased. The
fire crept along to, the main buildings
and spread to another of the cars which
separated 1t from the shops.
Only few moments more
elapsed before the flames leaped
to the next parallel track, ana at one
O'Clock this morning there were six or
eight freight cars ablaze, and the shops
were menaced by the aggressive element.
An engine near the round.house whistled
of spectators increased from minute to
minute as the fire below faded out in the
night under the exertiOn of the St. Louis
fire departm ent, and transferred the
theater of the excitement to the shops.
"Nothing can save the shops" was the
general comment and itbecame apparent
that not only the buildings to which the
fire was tending were doomed, but also
half a dozen long lines of loaded and
empty freight cars which filed the inter
vening space.
TWO MORE BLAZEs.
A fourth fire started in the Cairo Short
Line lumber yard, where lot of dimen-
sion timbers for car construction was
piled. There were also number of cars
standing in close proximity, and thev
commenced to blaze, attracting crowd
of spectators In that immediate locality
The crowd stood leisurely and saw the
property consumed without making any
effort to save it.
Another blaze shot up in the vicinity of
the Little rolling-mill, where there was a
number of ShOrt-Line cars and cars be-
longing to various other roads. They
burned slowly, as there was but very
little wind blowing at | 80 O'Clock this
morning, when East St. Louis was
Illuminated by four distinct and widely
separated baZeS.
THE FIRRNEN ORDERED OFF.
The st. Louis fire department was near
at hand and could have readily
extinguished the fires II the crowd
would have permitted them to do 30.
They had got the flames under con-
Al Nat than
sand Yards below the shops. and would
have extin2uished it if they had not been
interfered with bv the strikers. About
l215 Assistant Chief Gross was helping
to push the burning cars from the train
with which they were connected when a
striker stepped up to him and said:
"I want to speak to you" Mr. Gross
said he would give his attention in mo-
n,ent, and allowed himself to be led from
the burning cars.
The striker said he represented COM
mttee which had been instructed to in
form the fire department that they were
not wanted in East St. Louis.
The Assistant Chief explained that he
had responded to the cali OF duty. ..-
"Did YOU come here by the authority
of Mayor Joyce2" asked the mouthpiece
Of the committee.
eyes"
"Take my advice. You had better
make sneak, anyway. 1t amt healthy
for You here. r.....
Assistant Chief Gross concluded that
it was no use staying there any longer,
and,he withdrew his men and prepared to
return to SttLouis. When they left. Mr..
Gross said it was useless for them to at
tempt to do anything, as the strikers
threatened their engineers, cut the hose
and Ind told him that they would not be
allowed to do anything. p, +ii
The casualties occurring throughout
the evening to the iremen were the cases
of Denny Deering, of the Twenty -threes
Company, who fell through a treStle and
was fished out with some difficulty and
sent home, and Roddy Walsh, of the
same company, who fell through the
trestle, but was not hurt.
THE CONFEDERATION SPREADING.
At the close of this report several new
fires have started up among the railway
property, the nature and extent OF which
is not known, however. ...
q Another man was reported killed last
night, but nothing conhrmatorv has been
received. Greatest and most intense ex-
citement prevails, and there is no telling
to what extent the damage may go. ..