# Louis Fieke, recalled
# Testimony before the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, session of Saturday 25 Nov. 1871 (day 3), as reported in the Chicago Tribune of 1871-11-26, page 1
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# STATUS: NEWSPAPER REPORT (reported speech with some direct quotation) -- not the stenographic transcript. 

LOUIS nWE
recalled. The Little Giant’s men kept the
ire from coniumuicatlng to the adjoining bam
Jtv r a time. When It did the hose led through the
jltirn, and the shed on the opposite side of the
lollcy was was cooled off with water. When the
-.‘V'-Tu through which the hose was led was bum
ifc:g rapicly, the men backed down, and when
got through, one of the houses on DeKoven
«ct was found to be on llttj. The flumes “soon
under gimd headway.” and the roofs of houses
the vicinity ignited. Fire was then observed
the roof of a row of buildings on Jefferson
ect, north of DeKoven street and
and several citizens west on the
if and put out the flames with backets full of
ter. All ut once the building at the south end
the block caught lire inside, and In a short
u* the whole row was burning. He did not
nk the lire from the bam started it, as the
ad was not blowing that way. He did not see
lire cross to the South Side. Ho couldnottell
w long it was after ho reached the bam until
Lime Giant came. The Chicago’s nipemon
Unseen after her men. He saw no liquor In
uek Two’s home, and did not see a fireman
link during the conflagration.