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Seven Men Lost Their Lives Caught In The Fire That Destroyed Case's Livery Stable At Detroit

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Day
12
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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DETROIT, July 11.- ïhe fire that destroyed Case's livery stable, 41 West Congress street, caught fivo mea in lts terrible embrace, and wheu their bodles were found In the ruins they were horribly burned and charred - almost past identiñcation. One othor person is yet missing, and will possible make the sixth viotim. The uve known victims are: John Shaw, driver; John Bowman, second cook, formerly of Bay City; Thomas Webb, painter, L mdon, Ont. ; James R. Shaw, harnoas; Charles Davis, barn man. Tbe missing man, Edward Hughes, a hostler, is known to have been in the building when the fire started, and has not slnce been seen. There were about eighty horses stabled In the basement, all of which were gotten out, with the exception of Q. A. Gravos' Ethel G., valued at $1.000, and one of less value. Later. - John Cummings, the man who leaped or feil f rom an upper window of Casa's livery establishment during the fire, is Btill alive at the hospital, but is unconscious. Hls death is expected. This will made the seventh death.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News