# Dennis Regan, of No. 112 DeKoven street (OCR "DKWiH Boom"; Sheahan prints "Rogan")
# 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 258-274; 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], pp. 121-22.

DKWiH Boom,
of Ko. 112 DcKoven street,was in O Leary a SSSS?
aitniit imlf-nast 8 o’clock on Sunday night.
O’Leary anfhie wife were In bed. He asked the
woman why she went to bed so eariy,/md shoaald
it was because she had a** sore fut. He wont
home) iS after he had gone to bjd-sometlms
after fl o’clock—ho heard a neighbor say that
O’Leary’s barn was on fire. Ho jumped up, and
tan around to the bam and tried tosavc a wagon
that was there, but ho could not. The heat drove
him away. There was company ot MoLaugu
iin, the fiddler’s,” and he heard music in the?©.
He did not know who was present. It was a quar*
ter of on hour, he thought, before the engines
came. There was a high wind at tho time,
and the sparks were blown away some distance.