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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two hundred dollars reward. (search)
ms at the time of the explosion was struck about his head with a flake of the boiler, injuring him so severely that he has since died. Several other persons are reported hurt, but we have been unable to find out who they are. Mr. George Johnson, the clerk of the establishment, was asleep at the time the fire broke out, and had barely time to make his escape alive. Mr. Baker's loss will not fall far short of $60,000, on which there was no insurance. --The building was owned by Franklin Stearns, Esq., and his loss will probably amount to between $75,000 and $100,000.--Mr. S. had a slight insurance in the Mutual Insurance office on one end of the building; but, in comparison with the loss he will sustain, it is not worth reporting. The origin of the fire is believed to be accidental, and as it frequently occurs that the furnaces in the drying room are kept heated all night it is more than probable that the floor ignited therefrom. The Fire Brigade were promptly on the