Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Fire in Utica

UTICA, May 23.

At 3 o’clock this morning the Oneida brewery of Mullan & Co. took fire and burned to the ground.  Loss, $12,000 – insured.

A[t] 11 o’clock the fire works in one of the building[s] of Marchisi & Love, pyrotechnic manufacturers, took fire and [was] destroyed. – Charles Woolweber, a workman, was burned to death.  Loss of Marchisi & Love, $2,000 – no insurance.

Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 26, 1862, p. 1

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