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A $3,000 Blaze

A $3,000 Blaze image
Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Early Wednesday morning fire was discovered in the alley in the rear cf Duffy's grocery store. By the tiace the alarm was sounded and the people aroused, the frame bnrn of James Kitson, occupied by Sheriff Walsh, the barns of John Schneider and of A. R. Hall, were engulfed in flames. The fire, however, soon caught in the building owned by Hiram Kittredge and occupied by O. Snow as a livery stable. All of the buildings were burned to the ground, exeepting the latter, which was of brick, but the wood-work tai all burned, Sher.ff Walsh, who occupied the Kitson barn, lost his fine black horse, valued at $200, also his carriage, buggy, cutter, harness, robes, feed, etc., entailing a loss all told, ot about $500, on whish he had $250 insurance. Gil. Soow saved all his horses, carriages, harne6?, but lost his fine coupe, all his cutters, and a quantity of hay, grain, etc His loss is about $1,500, which is fully covered by insurance. The other losers were John Schneider, barn, $200, no insurance ; James Kitson, barn, $100, no insurance; A. E. Hall, barn, $100, no insurance; Tony Schiappacassee, a shed, $50. There is no doubt that the buildings were eet on fire by some one. It has long been the practice of trampa and others to crawl into these barns to sleep nights, and it is thought that carelessness on the part of some one who was in there that night caused the fire. A fellownamed Keegan was arrested early in the morning on su8picion, he having been seen about the premises just belore the fire brolte out.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register