Show LAST NIGHTS FIRES One Was in the Roberts Block on Broadway S Broad-way A mean fro was discovered last niehtat 1 oclock in the basement of the Robert block on Broadway Both departments turned out in a hurry and soon the doors of the cellar were battered down and some of the fire laddies were inside the building seeking through the dense smoke for the seat of the trouble The cellar was stored with the supplies of the Telephone company and consequently it was difficult for the men to locate the fire The streams were played at random until the back part of the building was broken open when it was seen that the blaze was in the rear partition Within a few minutes after its discovery four good streams of water were playing upon it and it was but a few minutes before it was put entirely out The firemen are to I be praised for the gallant work they did I I I in the blinding and choking smoke and I i Captain Mike Donovan for the able manner man-ner in which he handled his force The fire burned up a great deal of the contents of the cellar but the loss cannot now be estimated A SECOND ALARM At 130 this morning a frame shed in the rear of the Progress building was discovered dis-covered to be on fire and the boys from headquarters made another quick run and made short work of the blaze I is suppssed that the fire originated through some one throwing a match or cigar in some rubbish near the shed which was I used for storing iron pipe in A hundred dollars will cover the loss 8 |