The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-07-05
THE FIRES
Bells Changed Almost Constantly, but
there was Little Damage Done.

Bells Changed Almost Constantly, but
there was Little Damage Done.
There were thirty fires in this city yes
tetday. or these fourteen were alarms.
The average cost during the year of cal
ling out the department is $34 each time.
According to that figure 1t cost the city
s476 for yesterdays fires.
Aud the fire-cracker "done it." Thsse
treacherous articles were everywh here, and
every one who used them seemed to be
either perfectly idiotic, or for time out
of their minds. For the recklessuess
and malicious work that VAS don, by the
fre-cracker fiend was something terrible.
One ignorant brute placed a fire-cracker
in front of bootblack at work, nearly
blowing his whole hand of. Another
facetious indidual threw fre-cracker
beneath a laiy's white muslin dress.
The cracker exploded, and the woman's
dress ignited in an instant, bur ming 1t
half off aud scorching her limbs. Horses
were terrified, awnings and houses
burned windows ha E..nItsI broken .s and ] bodies
continually. And the fire. cracker did it
all.
Atll O'Clock yesterday morning a fire
damaging the roof of the dwelling oc-
cupied by George K. Whiting, As Logan
street. was caused by a frecracker being
thrown upon the roof. Box 2l6 was rung
Immediately after this fire an alarm
from box AZ called the department. to the
Elm street workshop. A frecracker did
this.
Al midnight Monday James Woods
shed on Columbia was burned by a Ger
tain class of celebraters
BOX So was for slight blaze on the
roo. of James Cronnin's barn in the rear
of Eddy street near the gas works.
AT $50 yesterday morning the awning
in front OF George l.. Robinson's auction
rooms on Weybosset street was burned
partly. A fire-crdcker did this.
The roof OF the Baptist Church at the
corn ar of Scott and Beacon streets was
damaged slightly yesterday afternoon.
A flre-cracker did it.
Box As was for roof fire in Douglas
avenue tenement house, amounting to a
few dollars damage.
Over 5000 damage was done by fire In
the frame building 100 Doyle avenue
Yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The
building was damaged $780, Charles
Rogers and another had furniture stored
in the upper story which was ruined.
Box "a was rung tor this fire. A fire
cracker did this
Al about o'clock box SO was rung for
a roof fire on Jane, Kelley's Gotta ge, in
rear OF 72 Dodge street. Damage $50.
AT 7:l5 box 2S called the department to
the I rec story wooden tenement house,
3 d street owned by Mary Harvey. The
fire was on the roof and was very small.
An alarm of fire was rung In from box
IA, at 7:35 o'c.ock last might, for "A blazs
on an awning in front of Nichols G.
Fayer's boiler snop. The flames were
extnguis he'd ov a pail OF water.
At noon yesterday officer Morse extin-
guish ri "A fire in the yard at the corner
Of Wash gton and Oliver streets.
Three large panes Of fiat glass in Edgar
A. Rourke's store, 81 Aborn street,
were broken by the explosion OF a cannon
cracker.
Other fires OF the same nature werc at
J. A. Foster & Compan'ys, caused by a
firecracker; Edwin Buckley's store, 25
Ricbmon street. caused by n firecrackef;
Hicks restaurant. Weybossett; Wind
ows Of ~ j. Boyle's store, Nor, b Main
street and thoss In Doe a. Little's Office,
Randall street, were broken by powder
crackers. Box 212, ut l.. 5. Andrews,
Cos Brosd street; Mrs William Gar.
dtuer's 206 Washington street; Cont
mental Steamboat wharf; $. NJ. Phillips
iouse, $50 Smith street; X. L. Rose &
Co.
A womau's dress was burned OF by
tie explosion OF q fire cracker on Wes :
Minister street,
Joseph Nc Donald OF Hook and Ladder
No MAS struck in the face by section
OF an eavo as he was half way up the
ladder at n fire in an old store house.
corner of Transit aud South Water stre.ts.
Tue muscles Of the nose weis seriously