The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

Five fires occurred between II o'clock
Saturday morning and 2:30 o'clock yes
terday morning. Two of them were
quite serious and one of them for
time threatened to be extremely SER
ious.
This latter was in Hitchcock court
in the very heart of one of the most
beautiful residence portions of the city
About o'clock p. m, hostler en-
poyed by Siebecker & Watkins over
turned a lantern in their barn located
in the rear of l.. j. Siebecker's resi-
denCe and set fire to the hay. In an IN
stant. almost, the barn was mass of
flames
Major 4. Frank Penman, who resides
nearby was the first TO detect the ire
and after alarming the neighbors sent
in a call from box q, corner of Mad
ison avenue and Mulberry street. Ow-
ing to the heavy grades and the slip
perry condition of the pavements the fire
companies were slow in getting to the
scene and as consequence the Sic
becker & Watkins barn and the barn
Cf a. D. Pierson adjoining were both
totally consumed.
HORSE AND CARRIAGE BURNED.
valuable horse and carriage We're
burned up with the first barn but
everything of value excepting the hay
and feed were removed from the Pier
son barn. The Second Presbyterian
church manse, occupied by Rev. Dr.
G. Il. Robinson, the new home of Major
T. f. Penman and the handsome resi-
dence of Claude Pratt We're for a time
threatened with destruction but
through the efforts of the flremen they
escaped with only scorchinG. The
loss on the barns is about $l.5OO each.
Both were covered by insurance. Had
the fire companies arrived on the scene
in reasonable time Persons barn
could have been saved and the total
destruction of the other at least pre-
vented.
The hostler who it is supposed caused
the fire turned up after the barn was
a mass of danes and insisted on going
in to rescue the horse. When bystand-
eYs interfered to prevent him he be-
came so abusive that Patrolman Saltry
and Flaherty decided to lock him up,
which was done.
| IT was necessary to use four horses
| to draw the steamers up from the CEN
tral city to the scene of the fire and
even then it was only with the great
| est eXertion that the painting teams
could move at q walk.
The Other serious fire occurred at II
o'clock al m, when the two~story
| frame dwelling house of Milliman
| Stephen Eobs, at 1924 Stone avenue,
was totally destroyed. The fire broke
out in a closet on the second floor from
some unknown cause. The house was
valued at $1,000 and was insured for
$500 in agencies represented by Peter
Robling Much of the furniture was
also destroyed
FIRE ON ADAMS AVENUE.
At els o'clock p. m, an alarm was
sent in from box "a, corner of Wash
| ington avenue and Mulberry street. 1t
was occasioned by a slight fire in the
residence of Mrs. Back, 425 Adams
avenue. The blaze was caused by the
flames of a Kerosene lamp coming il
contact with clothing hanging in a
closet. The chemical company pre-
vented any serious damage resulting.
The fire at 1 o'clock yesterday morn
| ing, for which an alarm was sounding
| from box 81, corner of Brick avenue
| and Oak street, was in an unfurnished
| dwelling house, which is being erected
on West Market street by James Bell
Il defective flue leading from one Of
the stoves which We're kept there &c
| dry the plaster, is supposed to have
| caused the flames. The firemen pre-
vented the fire from spreading ard the
loss was in consequent slight.
a second alarm from box "a was
sounded at go a. m. This time the
-,
on Adams avenue. The damage was
| SLIGHT.