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FIRE AT BROOKSTONFrom Which Ham Johnson ittite a Loser.Brookston, north of us in Whit*connty, had a narrow escape fron destruction b tire Sunday night.The fire originated in the basement of Kneale Kneale’s drug store, r q !was discovered about ten o’clock The cause has not been learned. The drug stock occupied a one story brick building on Main street and tbe building is surrounded by the mo^t important business buildings in Brookston. As soon aa the flames were discovered the entire population of Brookston was called out aud a bucket brigade was organized. The flames spread to a barn in the rear of a drug store and that building wae soon in ruins. The barn was owned by A Street Son. The fire did not spread to the business buildings on either side of the drug store, but by the time it was subdued it had completely gutted the drug store.The bnilding occupied by Kneale lt;k Kneale is owned by a geatlemau named Murphy, and the damage to the bu ldicg will probably not exceed $1,000. The stock carried by Kneale At Kueale is a total loss and is worth$3,500 or $4,000. The owuers carried insurance to thearaonnt of $2,500. The stock of J. II. Johnson, a Delphi boy,, who is engaged in the clothing business just east of the drug store, was cousiderably damaged by smoke and water, but the loss is not estimated. When the fire began the people were g eatly alarmed and feared that the entire business portion of the city would be swept by flames. It was 1 ' only by the hardest kind of work that o such a disaster was prevented, and the people of Brookston may well congratulate themselves that the fire was no more disastrous. The people of Brookston have been talking for some time about putting in a water work system and their unpleasant experience of Sunday night wdl probably hasten that very important aud commendable improvement.
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Delphi Semi Weekly Times
Delphi, Indiana, US
Wed, Feb 16, 1898
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