# Catharine Sullivan, DeKoven street east of Jefferson (OCR-garbled name line)
# Testimony before the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, session of Friday 24 Nov. 1871 (day 2), as reported in the Chicago Tribune of 1871-11-25, page 6
# Source: Library of Congress, Chronicling America (lccn sn82014064): https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014064/1871-11-25/ed-1/?sp=6 ; OCR text https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_clark_ver03/data/sn82014064/no_reel/1871112501/0006.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1
# Page-OCR lines 240-257; uncorrected OCR; written 2026-09-14T06:29:58Z.
# STATUS: NEWSPAPER REPORT (reported speech with some direct quotation) -- not the stenographic transcript. Bales: Inquiry vol. [1], p. 117.

ojiTnxßws firLLrvxy,
who lives on Dckoven street, east of Jefferson,
was washing dishes when she saw a-bright re
flection on the window panes of her dwelling.
Bhe ran into the street, and saw that O’Leary's
barn and two others east of It were on fire. She
had hoard that tbo O’Leary* were asleep at tho
time, and that somebody awoke them. Her
house caught fire several times, and oifisens
threw paUsfull of wa’er on it. Her sou and.
Dennis Bogin woke the O’Learys. She did not
know, of her own knowledge, where there was a
•narty in O’Leary’s dwelling, hut she had heard
that there was. Pat McLaughlin, tho fiddler,
llTod In the front part of O’Leary’s house. Ton
ifjpword” she could not tell how long a time
after ehe saw the fire until the en
gines made their appearance.