Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-06-28
A Fire.

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ex-connty commissioner John Gun
ningham, and occupied by railroad
employees, Supervisor E. J. Cleve
and Baggage Agent W. Miles, in
Patterson, caused a great excitement
about 3 O'Clock last Wednesday after
noon.
Two days before tho fire Mr. Cleve
and wife started to take in the Chi
cago fair and Of course were in bliss
ful ignorance of the fierce flames
that started from their coal oil stove
and destroyed their home while they
were enjoying themselves at the
Columbian fair in the Windy City.
As the hour mentioned above Belle
Philips colored maid in the service
of Mr.. Cleve's family noticed that
something had gone wrong with the
coal oil stove that was on the back
porch, which was boarded up" for
summer-kitchen purposes.
There was blaze playing on the
top of the stove then.
She called Samuel Monichan who
was doing some carpenter work in
the bath room.
Monichan looked at the stove but
did not know how to manage the
flame. He said, 'I'lI run over and
get Milton Guss, the hardware man
from whom the stove was bought"
He ran for Guss, whose place of
business is near by. Both men hur-
ried back.
The head of the maid Philips was
leyel. and she saw at glance that
the thing to do was to kick out the
porch balustrade and shove the stovs
of the porch, that was just the thing
to do bat the girl had not the physi-
cal ability to do what would have
prevented the house from taking fire.
Monichan came back with Guss.
Then the flame was reaching high
above the stove. The maid aga;n
was there with rugs and carpets and
Monicban and Guss each took hold
of the end of a strip of carpet and
brought it down over the stove with
the purpose of smothering the fire.
but 1t seemed only to cause more fire
for the flame pulled out from under
the sides of the carpet with such
force aid such volume, that they
were driven out of the porch, Gass
was struck i'll the face by tongue of
flame and at first thought be was
severely burned but aside from o
sligh singing of the ends of his eye
brows, whiskers and hair he was un-
injured.
Monichan ran out of the house
shouting fire, and across to w. G..
Cramer's house for his water hose,
when he returned the kitchen was
all fire.
The shout Of fire went up from all
parts Of the town. Alarm whistles
sounded and the streets ran full of
excited men women and children.
The two hose companies were soon
on the ground and had two streams
of crystal Macedonia water playing
on the building. 1t did not take
long to extinguish the visible flames,
but the fire had crept between the
weather boarding and inside plaster,
ing of the house into q number of
hooks and difficult places to reach,
and between the roof and ceiling of
the attic of the main building so
that the play of water for the period
of al hour and half was required to
put out the last sparks OF fire.
The water stood on the floors Of
the building to the depth of over two
inches and ran out OF the front door
in rushing stream.
The furniture of the tenants was
taken out after the fashion that pre-
walls at fire Mr.. Niles household
effects were not insured. 1t is not
known whether Mr. Cleve has his
household furniture insured. Mr..
Cunning CHAM had the house insured.
The building was not destroyed but
considerably damaged. A fire is
always a terrorjzing thing in the
house where it takes place, but since
the introduction of the water from
the mountain, people outside ofthOse
suffering by the fire are not terroriz,
ed as in days gone by when they
were without protection.
Harriet E. Hall of Waynetown,
Ind, says: 81 owe my life to the
great South American Nervine. !
had been in bed for five months from
the effects Of an exhausted Stomach,
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