Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Chas. Bates” in article pos=30 of The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource]:
...f Col. George W. Willis setting fire to the roof.
The alarm being given, it was speedily extinguished.
On Wednesday night, about 2 o'clock, Watchmen duke and Bradford discovered the smokehouse of Mr. Chas. Bates , on Clay street, to be on fire.
They were so fortunate as to put out the flames without the necessity of calling out the fire department.
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