INVESTIGATION. Continuation of the Examina tion of Witnesses by the Board of Police. Testimony of the Man at the Crib and Firemen—How the 6as Eeser voirs were Emptied. The Board of Police and Firo Commissioner., yesterday, resumed tbelr examination, wltb re gard to tbe causes ot tbo burning ot tbc city. Tbc first witness examined was CAPTAIN MICHAEL UICKET. Ho did not attribute tbo conflagration to tbo drunkenness ot tbo firemen, and boiteved that only Divine Providence could have stopped It when it reached Monroe street Tbougb bo be lieved tbe gas in tbo works near tbo Armory did not pass through water.be could testify that something coming from tbo Gas Works was wont to go into tbo cells of tbo Armory through tbo sewers, which smelt most abominably of gas, a nuisance which bo bad complained of for eight years. Wltb regard to preventing tbe spread of tbe fire in its earlier stages, he did not believe It practicable, and tbe combustible material on both sides of tbe river was about equal. JOHN LOLLAND, keeper of tlie crib, said tlio sparks began to fall upon tbo crib at half-past 11 o’clock on Sunday nifilit, and continued to fall until 3 o’clock on Monday morning. Brands from 3 to c indies in length feU upon the crib, and would have burned it but for the careful at tention ho had bestowed upon it with pails of water. The brands appeared to be fragments of pine boards, and must have travelled three miles. Ho could not tell at what hour the Waterworks were destroyed, but saw by tho cessation of tho current in tho crib that the pumps had ceased to act. The smell of the smouldering city is painfully plain when tho wind is from the west. 1 GEORGE E. FULLER, the night telegraph operator, was the next wit- I™olsely tbe same as the statement made by him to a reporter of Tub Tribune, and published some days ago. He could give no evidence as to intoxication on the part of the fireman. In answer to a Question pom Fip Marsha! Williams, whether he ramem y?J'yWia2B>lmvl>>g stated that tbe con dition of tbe Court House would render it a good morsel for a wholesale lire, be said bo did not D. J. SWEENT, foreman of tbo steamer Fred. Gund, made some rather Interesting statements. Summed up they were to thefollowlngeffect: Ho bad boon m tbe department since 1849. Ho went to at the third alarm i?;i'- o tai 0 5fe- 6X i aotly an hour 1111,1 ,!ve minutes after the first alarm was given. He drove down Tyler street to Jefferson, and thence to Canal street. Finding tbe churck on tiro on the inside he ceased to play upon it, and turned bis stroanl ““h 3116 eluw* bmSed down, but the mill was saved. Meanwhile a col umn of fire came upon him from tbo south and drove lum away. Then Bateham’s mill was burned, and, as bo earnestly believed, tbe firo spread to the South Side from that point. Tbe firemen were not intoxicated, but some of the companies were without officers, and were very slow. The tire could not have been extinguished when it reached the South Side, but its spread could have been prevented. He would have nSS a long tl ,‘s riTer an d saved Frank- I h< i c