St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-30

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! than you describe?" No, SIR
Were you in that room again per-
sonally?" mo, sir; came and went
out the front door and took the num-
Der of the house-2917''
What was the condition of the bed
itself; was it on fire?'' 81 should
judge SO. The woodwork of the bed
was charred and burned"
| DO you know of any clothes or
| anything hanging from the wall that
would have taken f1re?'' No, SIR"
| Were contents of the bed and every
thing that might have been in the
room pretty badly consumed ?''
wen, the bed and stand and springs
on the f1oor-I couldn't hardly say
whether they were or not" THE mat
tress was on the bed-springs and the
springs on the floor. Was the frame
still there?" ST should judge parts of
IL We're still there. The springs got
down on the floor because of the fire.
L don't know what else could have
caused it,
Was there any particular smell
about the room other than you would
expect TO experience at such a freq
No, sir; nothing but SMOKE
DO you know if other parts of the
house were ON fire?' "The dining room
seemed to be pretty well charred.' '
10 all appearances the origin of the
t tiTe seemed to be in the bed-room?"
Did you go at once into the bed
room .Gt upon arriving at the FREQ NO,
III had got the fame darkened OUT.
How long would that be?' about
You went in principally to see if
me mere was any person lying on that
ped or not? Whether any one was; in
the room or not?" Yes, sir TO as
fSe aad II there her was was, any one lying on
What was the appearance of the.
t ho9se concerning the fames?'' The
oe e9vr,o >, ~,
three feet of fame coming out of the
bed-room window. 1 entered the lower
part OF the window without raising il.
II may have been UP or broke. don,
know which,
HALL CROSS EXAMINES.
en- Mr; Barrett, that alarm came in at
That is the correct time is it.
automatically registered? Registered
by electricity. That's about the cor
rect time
Its simply an estimate that YOU ar.
rived there at 6:15, isn't it? Just an,
estimator We'll, should judge that
number of blocks we made in that time
OF a little less.
Vel Ry its an estimate. anyhow, isn,s
,, That's pretty good time, sixteen
niocks in five minutes, amt it?" Fair
You drove into the side yard9"
Yes, sir: We wheeled in to our right
in the side yard
Was it as you wheeled around that
you saw the flames in the bedroom
WINDOW Yes, SIR
THE house ba Il NOT f,a ~,
outside, had it," well, it was slight
~ scorched. The flames had apparent
ly just got OUT
Wasn't it apparent that the heat
had broken that glass and let the
fire in that room would break that
glass"
What size stream did you throw
and a half line" AL --''--
How big a stream?" az don't re-
member the size of the nozzle
of for 1nE0T Gent s iFs Yish good deas
1T has force enough to smash the
generally, hasn't it?'' Il don't think
So
the lower sash?" NO, .e sir. ia Ali fI't that az
was in my mind was to get the fire
out
DIDO aDo you GU know tRe III hoy by long time you
a
ute Now, when you went into that
room did your knees run up against
the side board Of the bed?" I'm turn
ing AROUND l ran UP against some
sir. not near the window" Did you
notice the condition of things in the
dining room?'' The dining room ap,
P pea aT to be e. badly se9rched We're
After you cleaned the things out. did
you notice where the fire had been
apparently the hottest?'' mo, sir;
reeied up the hose preparatory to re
there since the fire to look things
oyer?" mo, SIR; had no reason to-
ID, Did You see the bed-spring after it
had had been thrown out?,' No, sir
you left?'' II had left when some of
No. truck mem came to clean out the
room" That's ALL" said Mr. Hall.
and Mr.. Barrett stepped down and
RINGER TEsTIFIEs.
You are captain of Engine COM
Where are you located?' "At Chi
e f:4ra avenue and Ih i street"
2917?'' 'Yes, sir" What time was that
alarm rece:ved?" Il don't just re.
did you reach ca iG th U e TT g aat S
takes about eight minutes" Were
you the first at the house?" Yes,
sir" You We're there before Barrett
got c 6hGGG say s Went at once lon igfo
the house through the front door,
Did you so into the bed room?'' AZ
couldn't say which room it was Are
you familiar enough with the house to
situated?" with nothing more than
three rooms. The front room, middle
room and bed room. I presume there
was a kitchen back of these. but 1
the bed room open off OFF, middle
ROOM That's the dining room?''
Dining room or sitting room, what
ever you might call it, Describe
the fire. what you saw and what you
did, 81 saw smoke coming out of the
window, bed room window. We reeled
off our hose from the hvdrant on
it L took the chemical line. A man
stood at the front door and 1 asked
him If there was any one in the house.
He said no, they had just taken a lady
went inside. The smoke was so thick
l had to go on my knees. l pulled my
hat down and stuck the hose in ahead
of me- What kind of door opens
It might have been a door or drapery.'
Gould you see the condition of
things in the bedroom?'' "I could see
it was full of fame"
THAT appeared to be the origin of
the fire; where the fire was the heavi-
est, did it not?" ct did,
The witness was here shown a plat
of the room and questioned as to where
the fire had appeared to be the hottest,
but could not give very satisfactory
answers. When the witness got into
the bedroom the room was full of
smoke. There was bed in the room
and a mattress partly burned up. The
mattress was little to the left of the
door.
What other article of furniture was
in the room? '' asked Mr.. Nye, continu-
ing. II don't remember
Was any part of the bedstead there,
the frame?" Yes, sir; The frame
much OF it was burned"
DO you recall seeing any stand or
table?" 81 do not. It might have been
there and 1 might have seen it, but
do not remember of it now
Did you throw anything out?" "The
truckrnen threw out part of the
burned mattress"
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