A Big Blaze.--
Intercourse was visited last Saturday by a destructive conflagration. The fire originated on the second floor of a large brick dwelling and store, with frame warehouse attached, belonging to Moses Eaby. The store was occupied by Jas. K. Eaby, and the dwelling by Harry Eaby. The origin of the fire is not known.
Very little of the contents was saved, and the building is in ruins. The loss foots up to thousands of dollars; insurance, $1800, in the Lancaster County Mutual. When the fire was discovered, auctioneer J. D. Warfel remembered that there were two kegs of powder in the attic, rushed up, threw one keg out of the window, and was then knocked down stairs by the explosion of the second keg. Singular to relate, he was not much hurt.
In the cellar of the burned building were fifteen barrels of coal oil and eleven tons of coal, and coal <sic> and coal oil, of course, burned furiously, and were still burning on Monday. The erection of new buildings will begin at once.
~ The Lititz Record, 07-Oct-1881, Page 2, Column 3
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