The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-01-31
cLlNToN's BIG FIRE.
Further Details Of the Oestruc.
ton Wrought Monday
Morning.

. The Clinton Democrat of last eve,
: ing published an excellent report {
t the great fire there the previous morr
ing. The following areinteresting e,
tracts:
The fire companies responde
promptly. j. E. McCarty Of hos
company No l, with three of his com
! pany and &c. Dugan of hose compan,
No. 2, with two of his company
who sleep near the City Hall, wer,
out in q few minutes with their hos,
carts. They took hold Of hose car
No. l, and Charley McQuilton's team
being at hand. were rapidly driven t
the scene of the fire, and then The
wagon returned for hose cart No. 2
which was also soon ON hand for sery.
ice. BY that time enough of the hose
company and hook and ladder com.
peny were present to man and direct
q hard battle against the flames.
The water hydrants nearest the fire.
by the old Boyer building. at Salmon
Il Salmons corner, in the center of
the North Side block, we're tapped and
two fire hose attached to each. With.
out direct pressure for ten or fifteen
minutes after connection was made.
effective service could not be done. and
use Of the hydrant at Salmonis corner
was discontinued. BY that time direct
pressure was put on by the engineer at
the Water COmpany's works, who was
telephoned by Manager Blair from
his residence. But the livery barn
with its contents of buggies, carriages,
harness, grain, hay and valuable
horses, was doomed. The heat was
greatest where the horses were kept
while the flames were intensified by
the bulk of hay above and below
which rapidly ignited and rolled to-
ward the front. OF the horses, only
three we're rescued, and only part Of |
the vehicles belonging to the barn and |
its patrons were pulled out and !
saved. |
MADE A GOOD JOB.
If those, if there be any, who are
disposed to criticize, will fully realize
the disadvantages under which that
lire was fought, they will at once con.
'lude that the fire company made
,ood job.
The livery stable and feed building,
n which the fire originated, was
:rected several years ago by Captain
}. Blatt, and used by him until he
transferred his business to Messrs. I,
1ane Il WEIGH. Messrs. Churchill e.
'on. few months ago, purchased the
took and leased the building for a!
erm Of five years at $40 per month.
was valued at $500, with insur-:
nee for 81, 900 in the Hartford Fire
company. This Is Capt.
'latts first loss by fire in his life time.
he building Is total loss. 1t had
rick wall on the south for distance 4
about sixty feet, which fact no
oubt saved from ruin the buildings
coupled by M. Biermsn, Pollock &
terne and the Brinkerhoff. Farris,
oan and Trust Company. The bal. =
ice of the building WA of plank, b
'vered with corrugated iron.
How THE FLANEs ORIGINATED g
Prior Shelby. VINO keeps his hack IL
d team at Churchill's barn. says he al
L the barn about Eve O'Clock with Il
hack to make a call on Washing b
q street. He had delivered his pss-
,gers at the N. X. & 7. depot and To
Is coming back to make call at the al
ecker House. when small boy told hi
n Churchilfs barn was on fire. He g,
IN ran to the bell and sounded the 81,
rm. He saw no fire before he left tr,
, barn. m,
John COwley. who drives Welsh &
mes carriage, lett the barn shortly CT.
er Prior Shelby. to make cali, fir
had been absent about 30 min he
q when he heard the fire alarm. wi
can give no clue 10 the origin Of Cl
fire, and was not in the rear of the
n before be left.
Nm. Hall, driver Of the Woods
tel bus. was in the rear of the ho- Il d
hitching up TO meet the early train -
about 8 40. when he discovered the
mes and smoke issuing from the ion
r OF Churchilis barn and awaken for
the two inmates colored and
tie man. He then ran tn the first spO
stalls and liberated three horses, and
assisted by the colored man, drove her
N from the barn. file snys at the
time there was no fire in the front the
ne barn. and it seemed to be in fall
rear loft. The burning hay fall rs !
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