Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-09-04
FIRE BUGS.
A SUSPICION TURNED INTO
CERTAINTY.
Three Fires i'm Three Months
And all i'm Livery Stables
Arouse Suspicion Which
Will be Hard to Allay.

( The fire at Stephenson 5 stable was
I laid to accident without question the
one at Taylor S looked dangerous but
no one said much; but the one of last
night is considered as a certainty
that we have some incendarihs here.
There is lots of bad feeling between
various persons.
The fire broge out at 2.l5. The
barn, the Vaughan livery stao.s
building owned by John Vaughan
and occupied by j. NJ Logan, has al
ways been regarded as one of the
safest in the state, as near fire proof
as is nossible in livery barn, with
strong fire walls of brick which
proved their usefulness by prevent
ing most disastrous blaze, which
had it spread would have destroyed
the best building in town. The bank
aud all those buildings, once started,
would have made fire very hard to
handle.
Officer Golden, on his beat near
the c. r. & NJ. depot, saw the glare
He could see pretty near where the
fire was, and ran TO the nearest box,
box 81, and turned in the alarm
trusting to the fire laddies to see the
blaze and go to the right place, which
they did AS Golden says. Il made
up my mind TO get the department
ont of the house soon as possible.
BY fine work they not only prevent
ed the fire from spreading but saved
/ the building it was in They de-
serve all praise for tirst-class be-
4 havior.
/ Men at the stable tell US there
were FIVE of them slept in the barn.
| in the new offices on the first floor.
/ Three of them were up until a half
hour of the fire. They saw no one
around the place. The ire started
/ in the hay in the second floor, in : .
places, twenty-five leet apart anti
Jscs aaEsrfna IL and siidifi,aas vas badly bIrnsd "a
other horse was injured. The livery
and boarding horses and rigs are
by brick fire wall, so the
latter were uninjured. The barn
contained fortyfive horses, seventy
five rigs, sixty sets of harness. All
was gotten out, and but two sets OF
harness burned. None of the rigs or
other harness was damaged parti
Gle. That was good work and indl.
Gates good organization in the barn
forces.
Mr.. Logan S loss in addition to the
damage to his horse was FIVE tons OF
nay and 100 bushels of grain. There
we're eight horses there from the
Taylor stable, aid al escaped with
,he rest.
John Vaughan, owner Of the build
ng, estimates his loss at -, 800. He
lad 50, 600 OF insurance in three com
1auies in Z. c. Vaughan s agency.
He will repair the building at once.
Mr.. Logan had 81, 900 of insurance
n the Fulghum agency. His bust
less will not be stopped at al, in fact
vas not stopped. At $50 this morn
ny his cabs were out answering
ais. His cabs were at the trains IA
Isual and be served two funerals be-
ore noon without moment 5 delay.
10 boarder lost thing.
He has little knowledge OF how the
re started, but believes it was IN
A load of hay was pu.
n yesterday and the hay shate was
ull. The fire could have started
here, as the whole loft and the shute
yere in a blaze when discovered
hat he has his suspicious, and the
'olice department also have, is not
o be denied; but thew are keeping
hem close Last week some OF his
caches were BADLY cut up. IT is not
nown when or where it was done.
was discovered when they hitched
D the rigs.