From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/15/1871, p. 1, c. 5

THE FIRE YESTERDAY. – The alarm of fire yesterday morning before 1 o’clock, turned in from Box 21, corner Twenty-fifth and Broad streets, was caused by the burning of three of the shanties on Chimborazo Heights. The firemen could do no good with their engines, because there was no water to be had.

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