Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 09/11/1903.
Fire Does $263,000 Damages In Pittsburg.
Flames, Which Start In Livery Stable, Sweep Nearly A Square Of Buildings.
    Fire which broke out in the large stable of the Allegheny Transfer Company at Sixteenth street and Liberty avenue, Pittsburg, at 2 0’clock Tuesday morning resulted in a loss of at least $263,000, distributed over a greater portion of the block bounded by Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets and Liberty avenue and Spring alley. The blaze originated in the stables supposedly from the overturning of a lantern setting fire to some hay. There were 128 horses in the stable, and sixty of them were either burned to death or so badly hurt that they had to be killed. In addition to the loss of the stables, the four-story brick storage house of the Pittsburg Glass Company was partly destroyed, three two-story dwellings in Spring alley, occupied by foreigners, were ruined, and considerable damage was done to the Comstock Brass Manufacturing Company, the Theumber Manufacturing Company and several small storage houses.
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