Three Big Fires in One Day.
An early morning fire in the lumberyard of F. C. Buckhotz, in the block bounded by 29th and 30th streets and First avenue and the East River, Manhattan, New York, had gained such headway before the fire dpartment arrived as to threaten the new wing of Bellevue hospital, which the burning lumber surrounded. It took over an hour’s work, three fireboats and all the other apparatus called out by a second alarm to get the flames under control. There was great excitement in the hospital among the hundreds of patients, who, it was at one time feared would have to be removed.
A tire which started at Salisbury beach, near Newburyport, Mass., shortly after noon on December 4, within an hour had destroyed fifteen frame cottages. The flames started in a vacant cottage at the lower end of the beach, and were carried towards the centre of the beach, near the section which escaped the big fire of last October, when fifty cottages were burned. On account of there being no water supply at the beach, it was of no avail to request fire apparatus from surrounding cities and towns, and the residents of the beach had to fight the flames with small chemical extinguishers, buckets, and sand.
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