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The Evening Bulletin
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky
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Fire at United States Express depot in Cincinnati destroyed two mail cars and damaged several passenger, baggage, and freight cars, with over $8,000 in damages and lost mail. Firefighter Joe Gear injured his hand.
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Passenger and Freight Cars Also Badly Damaged.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 29.-The United States Express company's depot on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad tracks, near Baymiller street, caught fire Saturday night from some unknown cause. Before the blaze was extinguished mail cars No. 36 of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and No. 28 of the Michigan Central road, were consumed. Four passenger and baggage cars and two freight cars loaded with merchandise were more or less damaged.
The aggregate damage will be over $8,000. Besides the damage to the building and its contents, which will reach $2,500, one postal car valued at $1,500 and three express worth $2,500, were destroyed. The postal car was filled with mail. The latter, of course, was lost. There was no insurance on the property, the company carrying its own risks.
Joe Gear, a pipeman of the Twos, fell from the depot platform while at work on the fire, cutting himself severely about the palm of the left hand. He walked to his home, 561 West Ninth street.
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Cincinnati
Event Date
Saturday Night
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aggregate damage over $8,000; building and contents $2,500; one postal car $1,500 and three express cars $2,500 destroyed; mail lost; no insurance; joe gear severely cut palm of left hand.
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The United States Express company's depot on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad tracks, near Baymiller street, caught fire Saturday night from unknown cause. Mail cars No. 36 of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and No. 28 of the Michigan Central were consumed. Four passenger and baggage cars and two freight cars loaded with merchandise were damaged. Joe Gear, a pipeman of the Twos, fell from the depot platform while fighting the fire.