News: Greenwood, WI Arsons (1893)
Contact: Stan
----Source: Wood County reporter., November 23, 1893
Firebugs at Greenwood.
Mondays Sentinel contains the following. “The timely discovery Saturday night between the hours of 9 and
10 o’clock of the work of firebugs at the
little village of Greenwood, twelve
miles north of Marshfield, without
doubt saved the place from a serious
conflagration. At that hour flames
were seen shooting from the interior of
one of the general stores, by two men
who were passing on the opposite side
of the street. They gained entrance by
breaking in the door and found a roll of
cotton saturated with oil which had
been thrown through the window and
was burning briskly, but as the brand
had caught on a piece of furniture and
hung suspended in the air the fire had
gained but little headway and was easily
smothered. Had the brand been
thrown a few feet further into a pile of
boxes filled with excelsior the designs
of the perpetrators would have been
realized. Two suspicious looking men
had been noticed during the day making a survey of the business places and
it is supposed their purpose was to fire
the place to attract the attention of the
villagers while they robbed the bank
situated a few blocks away. No trace
of the two men could be found this
morning.”
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