Opera House Fire at Portsmouth
The opera house and three other buildings were destroyed by fire at Portsmouth, O at 1.55 a. m., September 3. The opera house was of brick and the other buildings of frame construction, and occupied a space having 145 feet frontage and extending back 110 feet. They were one and three stories high. The fire started in the kitchen of a building adjoining the opera house, from an unknown cause, and burned eleven hours. The only fire appliances iti the destroyed buildings were chemical extinguishers. When the fire department. in command of Chief W. A. McQuirk. arrived, the fire was burning fiercely in the frame buildings, and was rapidly spreading. The department had in service an Ahrens and a Metropolitan steam tire engine, a Webb and Fox motor pumping engine. There were eight 7/8 and 1 1/4-inch streams on the fire. The water pressure was 70 pounds through six inch water mains and 3.100 feet of hose, two lengths of which burst during the fire. Six 4-inch double hydrants from 400 to 600 feet apart, were in use. The motor engine drafted from a cistern. The property destroyed was valued tit $105,000 and the loss is estimated at $90,000.
The opera house and three other buildings were destroyed by fire at Portsmouth, O at 1.55 a. m., September 3. The opera house was of brick and the other buildings of frame construction, and occupied a space having 145 feet frontage and extending back 110 feet. They were one and three stories high. The fire started in the kitchen of a building adjoining the opera house, from an unknown cause, and burned eleven hours. The only fire appliances iti the destroyed buildings were chemical extinguishers. When the fire department. in command of Chief W. A. McQuirk. arrived, the fire was burning fiercely in the frame buildings, and was rapidly spreading. The department had in service an Ahrens and a Metropolitan steam tire engine, a Webb and Fox motor pumping engine. There were eight 7/8 and 1 1/4-inch streams on the fire. The water pressure was 70 pounds through six inch water mains and 3.100 feet of hose, two lengths of which burst during the fire. Six 4-inch double hydrants from 400 to 600 feet apart, were in use. The motor engine drafted from a cistern. The property destroyed was valued tit $105,000 and the loss is estimated at $90,000.
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