Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-10
THREE PERISH IN JULY FIRES
CHIEF WAGNER REGRETS CAS-
UALTIES IN HIS REPORT.
Six Others Painfully Injured.
Losses, $27 .972, Against $1O,O57
During June.

Three persons were killed and six pain
fully injured as a result of fires in the
District during the month of July, ac-
cordins to the monthly report of Fire
Chief F. j. Wagner submitted to the
Commissioners today.
Losses by fire during the month amount
ed to 1882. as against the losses dur
ing June of s10Oo7. Two large fires more
than made up the increase-that at the
factory of the Chapin-Sacks Company
where the loss was $4,000, and that in
a paper bottle factory in the southwest
section of the city. where the loss was
estimated to be $4,000.
1T is with regret says Fire Chief
Wagner, that l have to report three
fatal casualties during the month, as fol-
lows:
John H. Stevens, white. age five years.
fatally burned by the ignition of gaso-
line; Mabel Owens. white, age thirty-five
years, fatally burned by fire in her resi-
dence. and Emma Coppersmith, white.
age fifty years, fatally burned by fire in
her residence.
Minor Casualties.
Il also have to report the following
minor casualties: Elizabeth A. Club.
white. age twenty-five years, slightly
burned by gasoline; /. D. Phillips, white,
age twenty-seven years, slightly burned
while endeavoring to extinguish fire.:
Battalion Chief James keliher. slightly
injured in the back while working at a
fire: j. A. Landlord, colored, age thirty
four years. slightly injured while assist
ing his wife and child from his residence
during a fire: G. r. kuhns, private, No.
truck company, elbow fractured while
working at a fire: III. A. Orrison, private.
No. 10 engine company, slightly burned
foft y -.
in an awning on Sbley Hospital"
Seventy-Three Alarms During July.
Regarding the general operations of the
fire department the chief engineer says:
During the month seventy-three
alarms of fire were received, an increase
of twenty-four as compared with the
preceding month. OF these seventy-three
alarms of fire forty We're bell alarms and
th1rty-t three were local alarms. OF the
forty bell alarms one was false
'Of the seventy-two actual fires twenty
five were in brick buildings twenty Eight
in frame buildings three in stone build
ings, four for the burning of brush two
for fires on dumps, one for the burning
of a lamp box, one for fire in a naphtha
lamp, one for burning rubbish. one for
burning grass, one for fire in motor
car, one for burning haystack. one for
fire in a lumber pile. one for a burning
renee ana one TOT Hfe In a tree.
Losses During Month.
THE loss occasioned by fire during the
month is estimated at s27, 7S5, covered by
an insurance Of $l3S,6o5, for the bell
alarms. and s1s7, covered by an insurance
OF sJ13. $50 for the local alarms The
total estimated loss for all fires is SGT 912
a little over h per cent of the total in
surance of $6:,947J, and an increase of
no for fI,n ,f
June 1859
Two fires alone caused an estimated
loss of $4,000 while the loss for the
other seventy fires was but s4.47o
''rhe one false alarm of fire was turned
in by error, woman's screams being
mistaken for cries of Fire
''fhe inspection of mercantile establish
ments. hotels. apartment houses, etc, is
still being continued in the same vigor-
Gus manner as heretofore"