FIRE DEPARTMENT NEWS.
A fire which broke out on Sunday evening in John M. Smyth’s large furniture establishment on Madison street, Chicago, destroyed that building, together with Kohl & Middleton's West Side Dime Museum and five other buildings on the opposite side of the street. A high wind was blowing, and the services of thirty five engines, eight hook and ladder trucks and a water tower, manned by over 400 firemen, were required to control the flames. There was a wild panic in the audience at the dime museum, and some narrow escapes from death in that and other buildings, but, as far as known, but one person was killed and the number of injured is not large. Firemen and members of the fire patrol showed conspicuous bravery in rescuing imperiled inmates of the burning buildings. The money losses by the fire are roughly estimated at $1,000,000. The cause of the outbreak has not yet been fixed.
The alleged Brooklyn fire-bug, Hugh Miller, has been held for the Grand Jury. A boy testified that on the evening of one of the tenement house fires in Bridge street he bought a bottle of kerosene for the accused man.
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