The Terms of L flitield. I lln-.;*. N carl
Demolished by a Serie* of DU««tet«. '
oecorred I . .: ■
The lose of one life and the Injury of a num
ber or people resulted from the ca’astropne. (
Practically every tincture in Litchfield wa* |
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d' ta. -of t . terr.bl - affair were obtained
with the u“.. >-t d.llicu.ty.
About 3:15 a. in an alarm of fire wa
turned in and upon iuvestlzatio:. it developed
that the! '
soutnwc-t part of the city an 1 *a;d to Le one ;
of the largest. If not the largest, single fS-ur
making establishment* In the world, was in
tlan.es. Before the firemen arrived upon the
scene the fire Lad gained such bead *ay that
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it and it seemed as If the entire routh part of |
the town would becon-umcd.
The fire U suppo-ed to have originated by a
spark from a passing locomotive falling in
o:." of t:.e •. • • - •.
and ladder companies had hardly succeeded I
In getting their apparatus In working order
when an explosion occurred, appalllog in vio
lence, which was caused by the flames’ sudden
contact with pent-up mill dust. The explo
sion shook the earth over a singularly wide
area, while the atmospheric concussion wa
felt as far Decatur, a distance of fifty
miles.
The firemen battled with the flames for
three long hour®, finally subduing them to !
such an extent that adjoining property wa- |
L The ex n b e larg
windows in a majority of stores in the « . I
prostrated almost every one on the street. |
shook houses loose from their foundaiiot *.
