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FOUR FIRES IN AMHERST(Continued from Page One.)chance of adjoining buildings being consumed.j Six streams and a five hour light ( wore necessary by the firemen to• extinguish yesterday's blaze. Kf-tforts of the tire department werehandicapped by a. silent uprising of the firemen in which instructions of• acting lire chief J. IF. Frederick, .hardware merchant, were ignored. Frederick, as assistant tire chief, at-I temp Led to lake up the reins of the | department in the absence of Fire j Chief C. C. Ashenbach, dry goods J merchant, who is in Columbus 011business.)• In order-to facilitate tho volunteer fire department, firemen ap-' pealed to . ex-fire-chief John Kin-1 waehler to take charge of the lire.1 Kinwachter, who* has been ill for months with, asthma, finally con-' .« ufed. Ife was a in cm her tor forty• • »J ' pxu I • * I til ItliH MCI a It 1 ' I vUaWfjon home. He was traced to Independence. Mo., and from there to St. Louis. The prisoner was taken hack to Monmouth by Chief of PoliceMorrison and Mayor P e tba.'.city. Uefore leaving, fh.ic, Murisor.gfaid:Dawson, iiis wife and daughter were murdered by three negroes, two men and a woman; revenge for auditions which tho negroes believed I\‘iwjsOD had shown their relatives was !be motive for the crime: the negro woman in the case I will arr^f. soon; rhe other man is In the Joliet (135..'. ijeniientsary.He added that he had no ovidenc# ili3f these, negroes were connect sr. wills any other ax murders.two years ami for twenty-six years was fire chief. lie resigned just a year ago. The. resignation was accepted. Klnwachter being relieved as fire chief hut was made a life mem her of the company. The exposure incurred by Kinwacht.ur in lighting yesterday caused a re.-Jupfc'o and ho is very ill today.
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Elyria Evening Telegram
Elyria, Ohio, US
Mon, Mar 22, 1915
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