# Charles G. Wicker
# Testimony before the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, session of Saturday 2 Dec. 1871 (day 9), as reported in the Chicago Tribune of 1871-12-03, page 4
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# STATUS: NEWSPAPER REPORT (reported speech with some direct quotation) -- not the stenographic transcript. 

CHARLES G. WICKER
thought the blowing up of buildings was abso
lutely necessary. Tho fire could uot have boou
checked without blowing them up. Ho believed
it was owing to the efforts made there by the
Mayor,* Commissioner Sheridan, and those who
were with him on Harrison street, that the lire
was checked at that point. Michigan Terraco
could have been saved with another engine.