The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-30
A BLAZE IN THE STABLES OF CHARLES F. CRUpTENDEN ON
 UNION STREET LAST NIGHT.

All or the Forty Horses Safely Taken Out
 To Accomplish This the Stabiemen Had to Fight the Smoke and Cut the Halters-
 Their Good Work Praised-The Fire De-
 partment Prevented Probable Confia- grafton.
 An alarm of fire was sounded from box 26, corner of Chapel and Union streets, at 11:30 o'clock last night. The blaze was in the loft of an old frame barn in the rear of Charles F. Crutten- den's stables on Union street. It was discovered by Henry Smith, colored, the night watchman. He was, on one of his rounds when he heard a cracking and turning his head toward an open ing to the loft he saw flames eating out.
 There were three stablemen sleeping there and without delay Smith rushed up the stairs and aroused them. Ev- ry moment the smoke was thickening and becoming more and more suffocat- ing. There were some forty horses tied in the stalls just under the loft. The four men with reckless bravery rushed | to release the beasts. The animals had sniffed the heavy smoke and were be- coming excited. There was no time to unite them.
 The men whipped out their knives and cut the halters. They led the anil mals toward the front entrance and l t1I1r n6 i,,+n Tnin @+, Allan and Egan also assisted. At one time it looked as if the men would have to abandon their work for the smoke was pouring forth in heavy vol | umes. Some of the horses became ter ribly excited and after getting half way out of the stables would turn back into the smoke.
 | When this difficulty stared the stable- men in the face they took whips and | helped the beasts to the street. In not much over ten minutes from the time | the alarm sounded every horse was out of the barn and words of praise could be heard on every side for the prompt and effective work of the men. More than two-thirds of the animals were boarders and were owned by mer- chants and private individuals. l Some of them were quite valuable. Max Adler had two horses there, M, Zunder, D. Boschen Dr. Kelley, Charles MacGilvray, Paul Well, Samuel Mann, Louis M. Ullman and Isaac Ullman kept their horses at the stables. E. E. Nichols, the State street grocer had three horses at the stables. When the news of the fire got abroad many own CTS hurried to the scene and were greatly satisfied to find that their horses had not been suffocated and were all right.
 The scene was exciting for a short time. The animals scampered in every direction. Some of the citizens about the streets caught a few of them and kindly tied them to nearby posts. MT. Cruttenden appeared in good season and directed his attention to the horses, which were placed in various stables over night. At a late hour it was not know whether every one of them had been caught.
 Tn the meantime the firemen were also doing good work. Chief Kennedy was on hand from the beginning, as was also William c. Smith, the elec- | lIlCldi. Ley ulISCLtQ lIlG tilOIlS Ol the firemen in such an effective way that in less than three-quarters of an hour the ugly little blaze was sub- dued, although the recall was not sound ed until long after The origin of the fire is not known There were several tons of straw in the loft and had it not been for the quick response of the fire department it is likely that the big stable would have been completely gut ted. The electric lights in the build- ings which were not put out, greatly facilitated the work of the men. The loss will not be very great. Last night MT. Cruttenden stated that he could not estimate it. He is fully insured. John E. Ready of the Western Union pulled the box at the direction of John M Howard, the night manager.