Serious fire outbreak in Dublin

17 Sep 1906

Our Dublin correspondent says —A big blaze occurred in the small hours of the 15th inst. in Messrs. Barnatt’s food stores, Fumbally’s Lane, in the Liberties, west of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It broke out in the upper lofts of an extensive range of buildings, 150 feet long, which formed part of a brewery about twenty-five years ago.’ The fire brigade got the alarm in good time to save the structures. Under the chief and his lieutenant two detachments of the brigade soon deluged tho heart of the fire, checking its progress. In an hour they reduced the burning mags to a smouldering state, and the efforts of a couple of firemen were continued till the fire was quenched outright. A large quantity of hop and foodstuffs for cattle were destroyed but, fortunately, the many barrels of oil used in making up the foodstuffs escaped altogether.

The last great fire in the immediate neighbourhood occurred about twenty-five years ago in the bonded stores at BlackPitts, which were demolished, while the River Poddle and the street surface channels were flooded with burning whisky. Seven men who drank to excess died in hospital. A singular case of mistaken identity arose in one of the victims taken to the Meath Hospital. A young man was identified by father and mother and his young wife, who mourned his loss and followed his remains to Glasnevin Cemetary but in a fortnight afterwards the son and husband supposed to have been dead and buried_, turned up alive and well, quite recovered from the effects of the over indulgence in whisky, for which he had been treated successfully in another city hospital. The late Dr. Arthur Wynne Foot, the senior physician of the Meath Hospital stated that is was a remarkable occurrence.

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