| Show FIRE ON FIRST STREET SUPPOSED TO BE or OP ARY ORIGIN barn belonging to john connelly is I 1 burned loss LOBS 1000 and inbur j anc mikes a long nun bun rire fire broke out about 1013 1015 last in ili a large frame barn belonging b 0 ry john connelly lit ino the iho begir of 17 first drat street near the of M the tha blaze w awa firs farst it ell 0 red by thomas ash ah who at once I 1 notified mr connelly enol and sent nent a boy to turn luro in thi the alarm the hose fifon front roni headquarters responded ard calef devine went up lip as a tit did LI alto alro Aa latant cht chief donovan the tire fire was blazing merrily w when hen the fire boso arrived A large crowd assembled resembled anil and bystanders secured garden hose tor for th the protection of 0 adjacent buil dince streams wr were turned on tho the ahro fit and after considerable hard fightlin g the last spark bpark was extinguished but not before the hn bain had been reduced to raca an and d charred timbers the barn contained contal ned no livestock live stock A X plaster leanto lean to which wit was also con ani fumed contained a lot of oc furniture stoves and other articles artl clea part 0 of the sal 3 were saved paved but tho the greater creater portion destroyed the total value of 0 ane buildings and nd contents was wa about 1650 the insurance Is tho the origin ot of the fire Is unknown T thero here are ara circumstances however that give rise to the belief that it IV waa the work of 0 an incendiary ed colder a motorman who lives near the bax barn no we WAS among the first to lo begin work nork to protect tile the neighboring buildings he 1105 asserts that when ho he went out hs he noticed a a strong strone odor ot of ke kerosene mr connelly stated that there was waa no oil about the barn calef dovine said paid after the th lire fire that 1 it t ought to be sufficient cause tor for establishing an all east side fire station the run from the station to the lire fire last night was a very hard ono one on the ire fire hors forsea but they mado made a remarkable run |
