The Daily Dispatch: February 29, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Fires

--About 10 o'clock Saturday morning last a fire broke out in the third story of the building on Cary, near 13th street, occupied respectively by Mr. B. J. Johnson as a tobacco store, and Messrs. Ed. W. D. Voss & Co., agents for the German Government.--The fire originated between the floor and the ceiling in the back room, which was occupied as a sleeping apartment; but the cause of which could not be ascertained.--It was extinguished by the application of a few buckets of water, but not before hall of the floor had been cut away. The loss will probably not exceed five hundred dollars, which is fully covered by insurance.

While some servants were at work on the farm of Mrs. Saunders, in Henrico county, on Friday, 26th, they carelessly allowed a fire to escape and set fire to the adjoining woods, the property of Mr. Alfred Winston on which there was between $1,000 and $5,000 worth of wood, cut and corded for market, which was nearly all consumed, together with the standing trees, not withstanding the efforts of the neighboring gentlemen to prevent it.