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Fire on Mount Adam*—TVn Ileuses IIurued—NewExprrlmnit.About half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, a fire burst out on the hill beyond Deer Creek, in a house Bituated on Sixth street, the property of George Walker, who is proprietor of a coal yard. The premises were rented to four or fire families, and it is said that in one of the rooms, in the back part of the house, there was a considerable quantity of sharings, which, by some means, were set on tire. The house was a frame and was quite destroyed.From this house the flames reached the house north of it, which beiongfd to Mr. Wilmer, and was occupied by Mr. Corbin, salesman at Bill's Daguerreotype Gallery, who lost all his furniture and valuables, anti a trunk which contained three hundred dollars in money. There were also other families in the house, which was a frame and was entirely destroyed.Southward the fire first reached a fine brick house, owned by Mr. Hackett, who also lired in it, and let out some of the rooms to tenants. The premises were worth three thousand dollars, and there wa:t no insurance upon them.The next house to Hackett’s was also con sumed; it was a frame, occupied by a colored man named Smith, and was burned down.Next came a frame cottage occupied by Mr. Bask; this was destroyed.The frame next door the abore was^also burn* ed up; it belonged to Mrs. Foster, ana was empty at th^^|,:-'.,7In the rear of most of the houses was a number of sheds, hog pens, and other out-houses; all in a highly combustible state after the dry weather that has so long prevailed; by meaus of these the fire spread to Eighth street, which, on the hill, is the next street to Sixth street; here houses Nos. 88, 42, 44 and 46 were on tire partial ly, the roofs being burned and other damage done, ^7' • • ;7 ; :No. 38 belonged to Mr. Powell, who owns a boiler-yard. It was occupied by widows, not a man residing in it. These poor women sew for tailor’s stores. They lost “their little all,” and their distress was most paiuful to witness.No. 42 was owned by John F. Windeln, it was a frame worth $1,000 and was insured for $500. Mr. Windeln is a clerk in Wm. Auder-son’s china store; he resided in part of the houseand reotc^pbe re8t.r-:7:No. 44 belonged to Thomas Smith, and was rented by three families.No. 46 was owned by Mr. Wilmer, owner the house teuanteJ by Mr. Corbin; Mr. Wilmer resided in it; it is a three story frame.It was reported on the ground that a man was burned in one of the houses, but we could not trace the rumor to any reliable source.The first water got on was by the Relief, No. 2, hand company, who tried an experiment which, it is said, was never before tried in this city. They attached their suctiou pipe to a fire plug and drew the water direct from it, abstracting twice the quantity of water in a given time, to what would have flown to the plug in a regular way. The experiment was considered most successful, and may be worth the attention of the Fire Department Committee of Council, before they proceed to building the fourteen new cisterns ordered by Council on Wednesday nigh tip 77*7* V’ 7The steam engines could not mount tho hill, but they forced water up from the canal, bursting a considerable quantity of pip1*, however, in the process, us only quite new hose could stand the pressure. It is very evident that for the fire ewamtrs is wanted a stronger and more durablehuso than any wbiob has yet been manufactured.The difficulty with the hoso was the principal cause of the fire spreading so far, R3 much valuable time was lest in exchanging the burated for sounft^ki.
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Cincinnati Daily Columbian
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 25, 1856
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