"It is highly probable
that Haslup & Bro., of Sidney, will be heavy losers by the Chicago fire. They recently
sold a firm in that city machinery to the amount of thirteen hundred and fifty dollars,
and have been unsuccessful in getting any information from the parties since the
fire" (Sidney Journal, Oct. 13, 1871).
The Great Chicago Fire started around 9 o'clock on Sunday
evening, Oct. 8, 1871, somewhere in or near the O'Leary barn, where Mrs. O'Leary’s
cow allegedly started the whole thing by kicking over a lantern.
Sidneyites saw another effect of the huge fire the very next day: "A special train
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad, with thirty Cincinnati firemen and three
engines, passed through Sidney on Monday for Chicago. At Dayton they were joined by seven
firemen and steamer, with the Chief of the Department of the City."
G.G. Haslup & Bro. manufactured excavators, with a machine shop adjoining the large
flouring mill of B.W. Maxwell.
"Water power is used, and the total value of productions will range from $40,000 to
$50,000 per year.
The excavator is of the famous Slusser patent,
and the demand for it is constantly increasing, Messrs. Haslup & Bro. having already
shipped machines to nearly all the States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and it bears
the reputation of being the best thing of the kind in the market" (Sidney
Journal, Jan. 5, 1872).
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