Year: 1873

| ANOTHER FIRE.-On Sunday morn
ing last, April 9th, less than two weeks
after the burning of the upper end OF
town, another disastrous confagration oc-
CURED here. At half-past five o'clocl;
that morning, the residence of f. w.
Young, located about a quarter of mile
from town, was found to be on fire and
in very short time was burned down,
almost its entire contents being burned
with it. The circumstances connected
with this last fire may be briefly related
as follows: AT twenty minutes past 5
O'Clock Mr.. Young started fire in the
kitchen stove. About ten minutes later
the servant girl came down stairs and
pointing to the ceiling of the kitchen,
said: "Oh, look at the fire 7" Mr..
Young looked in the direction indicated
and saw a circle Of fire, perhaps one inch
wide, in the ceiling around the stove
pipe. Selling dipper of water, he DASH
ed it against the ceiling and put out what
fire was in sight and, as he supposed, all
the fire there was. Upon going to the
kitchen roof from the outside, however,
he discovered smoke raising from the
shingles all over the roof, and in an in
slant afterwards the flames broke out
simultaneously throughout the roof and
into the main building. Seeing that fur
ther efforts to save the house would prove
futile, Frank told his wife to save the
children and herself, and gave the alarm
of " Fire J" Being at such an early nour
and on Sunday morning, too, but few
people were about, although in five min
utes after the alarm was given ten or
twelve men had reached the burning
building. What there was in one room
IA spare bed room-and one armful of
clothing was about all that was saved
Being a very heavily built building and
the lumber entirely dry, it burned so rap
idly and made such hot fire, that no
more could be done in the way of saving
its contents.


AS to the origin Of the fire nothing GER
tain can ever be known more than it was
an unavoidable accident. The kitchen
whore the fire caught was an addition 20
the main building, having a shed roof
and being ceiled with lumber, the dis
tance between the ceiling and roof not
being more than two feet at the highest
place. Where the stove-pipe passed
through, the distance was not this much
and double pipe was used. While some
think that the fire caught after making
the fire in the stove in the morning, there
are many who believe that it caught the
evening previously and smouldered all
night, and that the opening of the doors
in the morning and the burning of the
hole about the stove-pipe gave it vent
and famed the flames. This certainly
seems as reasonable as to suppose it could
have caught in the morning and burned
through the roof and clapboards into the
main house in only ten minutes time, par
ticularly when we consider that the cell
ing and roof were both tight. However,
as to when and how it caught, we can
only conjecture.


Mr.. Young's residence was one of the
best frame buildings in town and one of
the best furnished. These, together with
clothing, bedding, provisions and other
things lost, were worth no less than $3,-
600, and cannot be replaced tor that
amount. The property was insured for
81 200 in the Liverpool and London and
Globe Insurance Company.