From the
Richmond
Whig, Monday,
7/7/1862
, p. 1
FIRE IN A HOSPITAL. The alarm of fire Saturday night,
between 11 and
12 o’clock
, proceeded from Bacon and Baskervill’s warehouse, on
Cary street
, between 11th and 12th streets, now used as a hospital. A
furnace had been erected in the basement for a large iron boiler, the brick work
resting upon a wooden floor. - The floor ignited from the heat, and but for the
timely discovery of the fire, the consequences might have been serious indeed.
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