Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-26
A $4,000 BLAZE
OYER AT AETNAyILLE, EARLY YESTERDAY
MORNING.
The Fire Originates in Cellar, at an Early
H5ur-The Losses and Insurance
lncsndiarsn Hintst At.

.Etnavlle, Just across the river. is gen.
orally very quiet place at five O'clock in
the morning.
Yesterday morning, however, sh;ill
cry of fire at about that time roused the
people from their slumbers, and brought
ont nearly all the men who we're ut work
in the .Etna and Standard mills. The
fire originated in the cellar under
the bar-room OF John Kyne's
saloon. in what is known as the lima
House" 1t seems that several people dig
covered the flames about the same time
Harry Smith, who attends Kyne's bar, was
coming down the railroad from Martins
Ferry at exactly five o'clock when he no
| ticed amoke issuing from the cellar of the
/ house. He ran to the house and burst III
the door of Mrs kyne's sleeping rooms,
where Mrs. Kyne and her sister, Miss
Mamie McGiunis, were IN bed. Smith
found the house filled with smoke, AID
Mrs. Kyne had barely time to save her
gold watch, which was fastened to the
dress she had worn the day before. She
and her sister escaped in wrappers and lost
all their clothing Nothing was saved eN-
cept piano which WAS in room sdloln.
ing the bar room. When the flames
got well under Roadway the building
consumed very rapidly, and in few min
utes the fire had communicated to house
along side belonging to John Uirich and
occupied by HIS tather-in.law, Robert
Young. Mrs. Young had, however, been
Weakened by the smoke, and had spread
the alarm. By the time her house was on
IRE, all the goods had been taken out.
From this house the fire spread TO two others
belonging to UlrCh and occupied by
Philip Thomas, Thomas Jones and David
Job. They were also soon a mass OF ruins,
but time had been allowed the occupants
to remove their householdingI
The fire was intensely hot, aud melted
the solder in the iron COrBice Of the Etna
Iron * Steel Co. = office, across the street
1t also broke all the glass in that
side OF the Office and set
the doors and inside window
shutters on fire. Ulrich's three-stOry
building has all the glass broken and was
on fire several times, aud would have gnG ne
surely had il not been for the efforts Of
willing volunteers. A telephone message
was sent to the Wheeling Fire Depart- /.
ment, and the Island hose and the Atlantic /.
engine responded. They were of little
service, however, except To PIT out the
remains Of the burning buildings after they .
fell in. Had it not been for vacant lot,
the dwellings OF David AuheTg and Will .
liams HoWells would surely have been
consumed. Mr. kYne was away from
home mt the time Of the ire, and his wife
and her sister were alone in the house.
There is no theory "a 10 the origin OF the
fire, except iucendiarism. There had been
no fire in the house since the
day before, and even then it was not in
the part OF the house where the fire was
discovered. The biaza seemed confined in
the cellar, where a barrel Of oil and ABOUT
81 GOO worth OF liquors were kept.
The Losses and Insurance:
The .Etna House was large
frame structure two stones high,
and belonged to August Breidenstein
Loss $1,000; Insured in Columbia, OF
Dayton for 81, 10000 UIrich's three ter
ements were valued a. -. 900 90, and were
insured in the Peabody aud another
Wheeling company for $l,TOO.OO. Mr.
Kyne's loss on fixtures and stock will
amount to S. 500 10; insured for s., O0O On
in the Cooper, of Dayton. The .Et. a
Office was damaged about 800 90; insured
in the Hartford, of Hartford, c.. Advance
Lodge, 4. A Of d S W, which met iD
the second S'ory of the Il na House, lost
oil their pharaphernaliaS and books, valued
$50.
hereby tender my sincere thanks to
Michael Miller, Henry koeGnline, Hugh :
Clark, VIM. Jones, john Davis, Peter
Peiser, David Foster, Ed. Grilith, and all
others who 80 haroicLlly assisted in pre-
venting the spread OF yesterdays fire.
JOHN ULRICH. |