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Show THE wiJm Ti The Unaccountable Action of Two Barrels Bar-rels of Whisky in a Cincinnati Cincin-nati Saloon- EXPLODE WITH GREAT I0RCE. Sad Tate of Pretty Alice Brown Victims Vic-tims of Hydrophobia Crimd and Casualties. Cincinnati. June 87. "Tho end of tho world is a coming. It's getting so hot that all the whisky is taking tiro right in tho barrels." This startling statement was made by a man w ith a llanuel shirt and a pair of yellow shhes, as lie came bounding out of Charles L, Heisse's saloon, at the norlli west corner of F.ighth'aud Central Cen-tral avenue, yeslerday afternoon at 1;U0 o'clock. An instant before two detonations de-tonations had been heard, and the saloon sa-loon w as tilled with smoke and lire. Tho big plate-glass front, was completely com-pletely demolished, the thick crystal sheet Wing blown into the slieet. An alarm was sounded troni box 471', calling a relay of engines. When tho firemen arrived they found the floor covered with burning whisky, while the walls and fixtures showed the scarifying scar-ifying effects of a rain of tho same liery stuff. Amid the confusion the proprietor and his barkeeper came running into the street, fearfully blistered, the latter. John Kieger, having his face puffed li and bis arms and neck covered witli burns. Tho proprietor's arms and hands wero blistered. After the flames had been extinguished il was discovered that the story of tho whisky taking tire was the solemn truth. Naturally, this created a great sensation iu tho neighborhood, neigh-borhood, hundreds being attracted to tho scene to learn what they could of tho awful calamity. Mr. lteisso slated that in the far end of the bar, behind a partition of wood and glass, he had stored away four barrels ot four j car old liqucr. Oftliese, two barrels had exploded from no other visible cause than hhmi-taueous hhmi-taueous ignition, as them was no one in that part of the room, and there was no lire or light about them. The explosions ex-plosions were ticparnto and distinct, there being an interval "f nearly a mo-meut mo-meut between them. Tho work of destruction de-struction was peculiarly complete, Not a bit of glassware escaped, tho big mirror being split down the center cleanly, The clock vvat blown from the wall with the pictures, and all the furniture whs upset. Mr. lteisso ami tho bar keeper received their burns while endeavoring to cheek the flood of burning whisky that followed the explosions. . The lot is estimated at not less than JINX). Tho building it but slightly damaged. It is ow ned by John K. Hell. Tho report of the affair caused great consternation in drinking circles, and a seientilie investigation under the nut-pices nut-pices of the Steady Soakers' union No. 2 will soon follow. It is thought that if whisky will take fire by itself in a barrel bar-rel it may play the same trick. Inside tho human stomach. |