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Show . FIRE AT IMXfiHAM. Horrible fuse oriluroiiiK The following, received yetenlay , from Bingham, explains itself: i Bingham, non, Srpt. ", '7'1. ,1uf hnd an alarm ot fire id Per- rin's restaurant. Ch;u-. W. Morrill, ' late iroprietor, was severely burned at tout the fa, bend hihI- hands. J te w;ls aihnhii.-tvrinu a vajr bath to a 1 patient and the alvohol lamp used in I the apparatus evplixled. The lire eonununiealetl to the building, t-oth upstairs and second lloorand the whole interior ofthcR'-of was immediately in najnes. The prompt arrival of a Champion Extinguisher, ii'longing to Klopeiistein it Miller, did excellent service, without which the whole upper up-per part of the town must have burned. burn-ed. Mr. Morrill is a young man and a vury good fellow. KvoryUxly is sorry for him. At a later hour another letter, received re-ceived by Mr. A. S. Gould from his son Mr. C. A. Gould, furnished the following: , : Bikoiiam, Sept. 5. Renin's restaurant and premise took tire atmut ll:!iO this a.111. .caused by the bursting of the fluid lamp or apparatus lrom which the vapor is generated for Munro's vapor baths. Damage about 200. The room in which the bathing outfit is situated is immediately above the restaurant in the same building. A man by the name of Williams was .enjoying the luxuries of the bath at the time, but escaped naked through a window, win-dow, unharmed, excepting a few cuts in the hands, received re-ceived from breaking tho window. Charles Morrill, late owner of the restaurant, was attending the man in the bath in place of Dr. Munro, who is in the city, and was terribly burned in the face and hands. After doing everything in his power for a few minutes min-utes to extinguish the fire, he ran down the canon to Dr. Mincer's drug store, the skin literally falling from his flesh. Medical attendance wnsat once procured, His cries of agony and pleadings to be shot and (o put him out of his miseries were heartrending. heart-rending. Had it not been for the prompt action of the citizens the town would undoubtedly have been destroyed, destroy-ed, for in almost a minute after the bursljng of the vapor generator aud lamp, the whole building was on fire. 0. A. Gglt.d, The citizens of Bingham have reason rea-son to congratulate themselves on the rcaiilt of their energy in extinguishing the' 11 imes; or there might have been more terrible cases such as that of tlip unfortunate man who was burned, as 1 wtli as destruction of property. ! |