From the Richmond Dispatch, 7/7/1862
Fire. – The alarm of fire at 11 o’clock Saturday night was caused
by the ignition, by means of a defective flue, of a portion of the floor and
wood work of the cellar of Bacon & Baskerville’s large warehouse, south
side of Cary, between 12th and 13th streets. The prompt
alarm given on the appearance of the smoke in he rooms above, caused the speedy
appearance of numerous citizens and the Fire Department, by whose intrepid
exertions all danger of an extensive conflagration was arrested. The warehouse
was in use as a hospital, and contained a number of badly wounded soldiers. Had
the flames been left undisturbed, and gotten well under way, nothing earthly
could have prevented the sacrifice of the lives of at least one hundred and
fifty brave men, whose removal under such circumstances would almost have been a
matter of impossibility. The parties who were attracted to the spot by the alarm
worked manfully to put out the fire.
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