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Show Fire. Oo Sunday moroiGg between fiii anl seven o'clock, the inhabitkut? of the Twentieth ward l dcL were aroused by the cry of fire and on re-pairinK re-pairinK to the spot from whence smoke and flame were seen to isioe, it was fonnd that a frame bnlidiog occupied by Thomas Home, his eon Thomas Home jr., and eon-in-law William Hart and their families, was on fire. Unfortunately, before efficient aid could be siren, the house, which had five rooms and ao unfinished addition, with furniture, bedding, clothicg, provisions, provis-ions, and almost the entire effects of the families were destroyed. The fire is tupposed to have started io the new addition, where a fire had been lighted by the elder Mr. Home early in the morning, and who left it to go and attend to his team, at Mr. IJ. B. Clawson's stable. Tha Btove pipe which ran through the roof had doubtless become overheated and communicating with the laths or shingles they had ignited, and in a few minutes the whole place was in a blaze. The families who were asleep were apprized of their danger by a little son of the younger Mr. Home, who awoke his mother and called her attention to the smoke in the room. She gave the alarm, and they had barely time to esoape uninjured, but without saving anything, not even their j usual wearing apparel. A company of firemen with an engine were soon on the ground, but their efforts were measureably thwarted through the distance of the burning building from the water ditch, and the shortness of their hose. With the assistance as-sistance of the neighbors, however, how-ever, they prevented the fire from spreading to aoy of the adjoining ad-joining buildings, though Mr. J. C. Graham's picket fence was pretty badly bad-ly "scorched." The Iobs of tha partus par-tus is estimated at something over $4,000. A subscription for their benefit was immediately started at the 1 fire, and in the 20th Ward alone, near-1 near-1 ly $500 wero raised on Sunday and yesterday. Subscriptions, we learn were also staried at the Co-operative Institution, where Mr. Home Sen., was employed as teamster in hauling freight from the depot, and at Walker Bros', store, where Homo, Jr. was employed. The amounts of these subscriptions we have not yet learned, but hope that sufficient will be raised among our oitizens te place the families fami-lies again in comfortable circumstances. Ib the meantime, tho families are being be-ing provided for by Mr. Claweon, Biship Sharp and others. - - |
