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GENERAL ALARM WAS TURNED IN WHEN BLAZE WAS DIS COVERED NEAR ROYAL AND GOVERNMENT. About 10:45 o’clock last night a fire was discovered in three store rooms across the street from the courthouse near the corner of Royal street, occu pied by Brincat Vesello, Joe Muscat and Jack Farina. The first named firm lost practically its entire stock, but the produce dealer, Muscat, was more fortunate, but little damage being done the contents of his store. The damage to the property of Farina was heavy. Two of the structures were owned by Sidney and Louis Low enstein and the other by M. P. Levy. Fire Chief T. F. Price stated that the fire looked to him like one of in cendiary origin, as one of his men re ported seeing two men fleeing from a window in one of the burning build ings, enter an automobile and go to ward the water front. Huge flames arose from the build ings and a general alarm was turned in. The fire department sent streams of water into the structure and soon had the blaze under control. After remaining at the scene for about an hour the firemen returned to their re spective stations. During the fire a number of geese, ducks, chickens and two or three dogs, confined within, set up discordant sounds and the fire-fighters broke open doors to rescue them. Some fire-works, left over from the holidays, ignited, and there was a small illumi nation.
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Mobile Sunday Item
Mobile, Alabama, US
Sun, Jan 23, 1910
Page 6
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Carmel H.
