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linu | »I * VK* *41 1* lit-Vt Oil M MlMVVkjy — - QMonte Videans to return in peace and safety.TREMENDOUS FIRE!Lots of Life—Horrible Murders!—Thi* morning about two o’clock, the extensive store 100m of Futer-baugh Allison was discovered on fire. Their entire stock of goods, probably to the amount of ten thousand dollars were destroyed. The large brick build*/ ing occupied by Pulerbaugh Allison, store keepers.[ A B Beal, harness maker and Samuel Crnmbaugh, hat store was consumed. The large brick occupied by D D Williamson, grocer, D Barr, bookseller and partly as a dwelling by two or three f«mil»**a, was also destroyed. The loss of property cannot be less than from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars. None of the buildings were insured.The most deplorable part of I U Calamity, wns the loss of two very estimable young men, James Kenny and Wm Steele, clerks of Putei baugh Allison, who slept in the store. When the flames were discovered ami the door burst open, Mr Kenny was found lying against the front door, sonteleas, cut and bruised to a considerable extent.Mr Sicelo was discovered King in bed, probably senseless, but could not be rescued in consequence of the flame*. His body was afterward* discovered in the cellar where it bad fallen through. The back door of the storeroom was standing open,from which it is pretty conclusive that n most foul murder ba* been committed, and the store set on fire.[Xenia O. Jefferson Extra, Aug. 3. One of the villains was arrested in this city yesterday evening; he was followed down the railroad by an officer from the 3Cene of blood.—Cin. Com.' RE-BIJILT AND A TWO RK!day c your she n monySh In t,SusaifrieiVnotic the h Alex of O o’cloFan nr burg poyr Aal ni sons Ft,st shev Aug sale Alle jdecc
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Pittsburgh Morning Post

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Thu, Aug 07, 1845

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