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Show FIRED BY THE METRE. The Blaze in the Hooper-Eldridge Block Bekindled Last Night by a Gas Explosion. QUICK WOBK OF THE LADDIES. Another Alarm Takes the Department to the Sooth Side Necessity For More Apparatus. Shortly before midnight an alarm was sent in that summoned the department depart-ment tu the Hooper-Eldridge block that was the seat of the recent blazo. The fact that was soon heralded through the thoroughfares and resorts had the effect of calling together a department was called out again and proceeded to the residence of Mrs. E. Uriant, at 223 West Fifth South street, where the found the tlames struggling for a foothold in the kitchen. A hand chemical was brought into play, and the jet was outed without loss. The fire was caused from a defective grato. The VI rid Admonitions of the past week has induced the chief to repeat his prayer for additional ad-ditional material and apparatus with which to handle any ordinary tax that may be imposed upon the department. It is a reminiscence of Tuesday's blaze that the Deveraux was reported on fire at the same timo. Luckily for the department and for the citizens this was a false alarm but bail it been a fact there is scarce telling how serious results re-sults might have been. The chief says he would have been forced to neglect one or the other and thinks that with this lesson tho council should rcalizo the necessity for acting on his suggestion. largo crowd against whose obtrusion, the'ropo was finally stretched. The steamer that did such excellent service on the occasion of the first blazo was again stationed and was rilling her lungs for the battle. In less than five minutes Thrae Lines of Iloie bad been laid and entered the mouth of the stair case from which the smok'e was lazily and insidiously worming itself. it-self. Chief Stanton, tightly and securely se-curely sealed up in a ghostly rubber suit, had stationed a detachment in the stareway and recruiting a powerful specimen of physical endurance from the crowd that walled tho entrance to te ill-fated building sot to work with Uie axes. An opening was soon made hi the wooden stairway and a sheet of flame came forth. The hand chemicals Dad anticipated this but too light for the task Water Was Ordered On. The situation began to presont itself in more serious form, and the smoke having ascended to the hallways of the third floor. To reach the flames in the entrenchments in the cellar wf the work of a moment only, and two lines of hose were reeled off and run over and down the stairway leading to the basement. This afforded an open play upon the flames, and they were soon under control soon slumbering as they had slumbered before. The work had: not been accomplished, however, without with-out a desperate struggle The gas pipes were Tha Most Obstinate Enemy in the field, and at one juncture in the fight Fireman Ellerbeck. who occupied a position over the metre, was staggered stag-gered for a moment and then clad in a sheet of bright, leapiug flame that came near relieving him of the expense of a clean shave, his eyelashes were removed re-moved and the tips of his moustache nicely removed. It was then revealed that the origin of the tire was independent inde-pendent of the firmer one and that it bad started from an explosion in the gas circuit. Chief Stanton made a careful care-ful examination of the premises after the blaze was extinguished, and will now order that it be repaired or be black .. -m. LUIed as FlraTrap. c 'ii .- fraTd,"tnV 'pre'sencVel lUT'ffameYnot been detected by the night watchman through the explosion, the dessolation might have been terrible. ,At 4$cIock yesterday afternoon the |