Fire Bugs
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Fire Bugs
About 2 o’clock yesterday morning it was
discovered that the wholesale house of Fleming
& Rosecrans was on fire. The fire was soon
gotten under control, the entire loss was $143.
It was then discovered that the store had been
entered from the rear, and that the parties had
attempted to break open the safe, and after
failing in that, and robbing the cash drawer of
some four or five dollars, had drawn coal oil
from a tank in the rear of the building and
poured it along the floor and frame partition
on the inside. The fire had first been started
behind the bar, and it is supposed that the ex-
plosion of a lot of celluloid chips frightened the
robbers away before they had time to fire the
other part of the building. The explosion of
the chips gave the alarm almost as soon as the
fire was started, and had it not been for this,
doubtless the entire block would have burned
down, as the many barrels of whiskey would
soon have been in flames, making it almost im-
possible to put out the fire. It was a fortunate
escape from what might have been a very serious
blow to the town.