Danbury News articles announcing suspicious fires as they occur in 1889.
Jan 1, 1889
[Article title mostly missing from microfilm]
Two...Fires of an...Arrest Made.
Jan 4, 1889
A MYSTERIOUS FIRE. -- A BLAZE IN THE VILLAGE STORE LAST NIGHT.
Jan 21, 1889
A SUNDAY FIRE. -- GREEN BROTHERS' FACTORY PARTIALLY DESTROYED.
Mar 8, 1889
A HAT FACTORY DESTROYED. -- Scotts' Hat Shop in Ruins.
Mar 27, 1889
THREE ALARMS OF FIRE.
Jun 22, 1889
THE "TWELVE APOSTLES" BURNED. -- A Serious Fire Last Night. -- Narrow Escape of Foster Brothers' Factory.
Jun 24, 1889
AN INCENDIARY FIRE. -- The Narrow Escape of David Beers' Lumber Yard. -- The Fire Marshal I[n]vestigates.
Jun 28, 1889
A BARN DESTROYED. -- A Narrow Escape From a Serious Fire.
Jul 6, 1889
THE FIRE BUG'S WORK. -- Canal Street Again at the Mercy of the Flames. -- THE INCENDIARY SEEN AT HIS WORK -- Meeker's Elevator, Theo. Clark & Co.' s Immense Box Factory and Beers' Ice House Destroyed.
Jul 8, 1889
FOUR INCENDIARY FIRES. -- THE FIRE BUG AT WORK [A]GAIN SATURDAY NIGHT. -- Fires on White, Foster and Rose Streets. Kerosene Oil and Waste Used.
Jul 16, 1889
THE FIRE BUG AT WORK. -- The Housatonic Railway Shops Fired in Broad Daylight. -- THE NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND FREIGHT HOUSE NARROWLY ESCAPES DESTRUCTION. -- Oily Waste Used in Each Case.
Aug 3, 1889
THREE FI[R]ES LAST NIGHT. -- The Canal Street Sewing Machine Factory, the Housatonic Railway Shops, and Bates' Lumber Yard.
Aug 13, 1889
A NIGHT OF FIRES. -- Byron Dexter's Hat Factory Totally Destroyed. -- A THRIVING INDUSTRY GONE -- Waste, Oil and Gas at the J.M. Ives Company's. -- TWO OTHER FIRES.
Aug 17, 1889
OIL AND WASTE AGIAN. -- The "Danbury House" Fired Last Evening.
Danbury News article detailing the destruction of Meeker's Elevator, Theo. Clark & Co. box factory, and Beers' Ice house by two simultaneous fires on Canal street. McCready, suspected of being the firebug, is arrested.
Newspaper article detailing four fires attributed to the firebug. The small article following the first discusses issues regarding the housing and use of the city's first fire engine ("steamer").
