The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-10
WHEELING
IMMUNE
FROM FIRES.
Remarkable Denrth Of Destructive
confagrations in Our City In
Last Three Months.
CHIEFS QUARTERLY REPORT
Submitted to the Fire Department
3sI&Last Night-Bids Accepted
I For New Apparatus.

tI. s.. n
1 H''7a1 ? i 'i' my 80 - % ~
B ing the past lew years nus p u'.'A, .
Z markable. Chief, Kline stated yester-
flay thnt n comparison OF Wheeling witt,
..,o. ~ . ,,,,, hy ,or-
M : ts'3,.i,s5 -, n :.
sen IN tnat respe4ct. : MS spaahs No
umes fol-. the efficiency Of this depart
ment Of the city government. Cur tire
department Is over and above board
and its efficiency beyond question.
AT the meeting of the fire committee
last night. Chief Kline submitted his
quarterly report for the months Of
April. May and June. He said there
were more alarms answered In the
4 period from July1. 1899. to the present
month than during any similar period
! during the past twenty years.
The report was as follows: 5,
April Brick building owned by Mr..
Grim and occupied by Mr.. Echols,
caused by defective 1iue. Insurance
s2.Go0. No loss. 81;
April Greek bank. Rubbish there
became igrlted from some unknown
cause.
April 3.-Brlck building located at 157
Eighteenth street, occupied by Mr..
Mead and owned by Mr.. Dunning.
Caused by defective nue. Insurance
$1,000. No loss.
April 5.-Rubbish in rear Of s2l Main
street. on the river bank.
April 6.--Brlck building occupied by
& the LaBclla as tin house. owned ana
occupied by the American Tin Plate
Company. Caused by sparks from
Lamp. Insurance s3l.5c0. Loss s4.5Oj.
April 7.-Brick building owned BY Mr..
Eckhart. This building Is located At
1908 Market street and is occupied by
DR.. Muncie. Caused by an over HEATED
tar kettle. Insurance :4,5O0 No loss
April Slender bank owned by the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.
at Twenty seventh and Market streets,
No loss.
April 11.-BrIck building owned by
Fred Sheets. Caused by defective
chimney. No loss.
April 13.-Exploslon at Riverside mill.
: No loss.
April 16.-Brick building owned and
occupied by Joe Wheeler, at corner OF
Eofr and Twenty-eighth streets. Caused
by sparks from chimney. Insurance
$4,000. Loss 5000.
.et April 16.-Shed owned by Mr.. Vass.
in rear of his home, at SO sixteenth
Caused by rubbish becoming ignlted.
Loss IS. No insurance.
q April 1S.-Box car at Th!rty-1rst
and Wood streets, owned by the Wheel
Ing Bridge G. Terminal Company. Cause
unknown. No insurance. Loss IS.
April, 1sLFrame. dwelling on Mccol.
Tough street, owned by Louis Schane.
Caused by sparks from chimney. In
surance 5000. No loss.
April 19.-RubbIsh on the river front.
: No loss.
April 2O.-Brlck building at 1126 Mar
s. ket street. owned by the Mutual Saw
ings Bank. Caused by defective tue.
Insurance $500. Loss s74o, 50.
April 2O.-Rubbish in rear Of 9s1 Main
street. No loss.
April H.--Lange's fats at Twenty
third and Charles streets. occupied by
tailor shop. Caused by gas explosion.
No insurance and no loss.
April 23.-Faisa alarm.
April 25.-Brick building at corner of
Twenty-sixth and Chapline streets,
owned by Mrs. Klieves and occupied by
Charles Reece. Caused by defective
fue. No Insurance or loss.
April 2G.-Brick building owned ana
occupied by the Register. Caused by n
defective nue. Insurance $500. Loss
IS.
April 27.-Brick building owned and
occupied by Mrs. WasmIer. Caused bv
sparks from chimney. Insurance
$1,000. Loss none.
April 2S.-Brlcl5 building at li5s Mar.
kct street owned by Marin Thor,.o,
and occupied by Robert Kyla, Caused
by the ignition of gas with match, In
surance $4,000. Loss $50. ~
April 2S.-Frame building situated nj
Forty-nfth street, owned and occupisa
by Otto Bowman. Caused by shark
from chimney. No loss.
April 29.-Fence at PenInsular came
terry, owned by the city. No Insurance.
Loss $40.
April so.-Coal house situated at the
corner OF Zane and virrInI, s,rao,s