Fire Engineering Staff
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Attic Fires.
IN the present day of rapid advancement in all branches of arts and mechanics, it is quite natural that many improvements should take place not only in the appliances for, but also in the methods of handling fires. The improvement and perfection of our fire-fighting methods and apparatus have well kept pace with other branches of our city governments.
Four Firemen Killed.
Early Monday afternoon there was a terrific explosion in the elevator shaft of the Fort Orange Milling Company’s building, facing on the river front and backing on the Erie Canal basin at Albany, N. Y. The sparks set fire to the grain and flour. In an instant the flames had rushed up the elevator shafts, and before an alarm was sent in the entire structure was one mass of flames. Charles B. Woolverton, a member of the firm, was in the office at the time, and before he could get out was burned in a most horrible manner.
FIREMEN KILLED IN CHICAGO.
On Saturday morning last a fire occurred in a furniture factory in Chicago, resulting in injuring eight Firemen, four of them fatally. From the telegraphic account of this disaster, we quote as follows: “The fire was discovered in the immense furniture manufactory of F. Mayer & Co., at the corner of Clinton and Sebor streets. The building fronted 175 feet on the former and had a depth of about 50 feet on the latter street. The walls were undoubtedly deficient in construction and, despite their height, were found to have been only eight inches in thickness above the first floor.
THE DEVIL AT FIRES.
The strongest evidence of the Devil’s presence on earth, and of his ubiquity, or plurality, is found in the fact that he is able to preside, with a skill and ingenuity which is truly Satanic, at a score of fires at the same moment of time.