Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1889 — BOUND TO BURN DANBURY. [ARTICLE]

BOUND TO BURN DANBURY.

Nine Incendiary Fires Within One Week in the Connecticut Town. Danbury, Conn., is under great excitement over a continuance of incendiary fires, there being three more this morning, destroying or damaging ten buildings and resulting in the loss of one life. The Danbury house, next to the fire department headquarters, was saturated with oil and fired while forty people were in the building, either in the bar room or asleep up-stairs. Soon afterward a large stable in the rear of the Central hotel, on White street, was burned. Two men were seen running away before the flames were discovered. Eight buildings were destroyed, causing considerable loss. At daylight the body of a man was found burned to a crisp in the ruins of the stable. It is supposed to be Barney Van Wise, a hostler. At 4 a. m. Sunday morning the family of William Dugan, of South street, was nearly suffocated. Some one entered the house by a windu.., cut a hole in the wall, filled it with oil and fired the building, afterward repeating the attempt twice. Four arrests have been made. Nine similar finis have occurred during the past week,