The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-08-17
FIRE LAST NIGHT.
Full Details OF the Origin, Loss,
aud Insurance OF the Blaze
on Second Street.

About ten o'clock last night the cry
of fire Was given by persons on >econd
street, VINO saw flares suing from
the roof, hear the chimney, Of the
frame building Oh Second street he
tween Ohio and Lamine. being the
building next east If k-ilyis boarding
house and saloon block.
The building WAS occupied by Mr..
G.. NJ. jacobs aud family as u dwell.
ing house. and was also Used by them
As a laundry.
As the streets at that hour were
,hroaged with people; large crowd
FASTENED Ia the blaze at once. They
attempted in vain u check the fire
by dashing buckets at water "n it..
The flames were rapidly cOmmunica.
ted to the adjoining building on the
east, which was occupied by Miss ills
dressmaker, and her brother, the
cripple, who wheels himself about the
streets in chair.
Seeing that further efforts with
buckets were of no avail. the crowd
began dragging out the furniture from
the two houses. After they had res
cued all that was possible, on account
of the rapid march Of the flames, and
about ten or fifteen minutes after the
alarm had been given the FIRE depart
ment pat in an appearance. by which
time the window frames in the Kelly
block were on fire. The stream from
the hose played on the buildings a
short time. after which it was run up
into the second floor of the Kelly
building and used. The flames were
finally extingui.bed, leaving the build.
ing next to kelly's entirely destroyed,
the other building all burneI but a
frame shell, and keliy's second floor
considerably damaged by both fire aud
water
THE ORIGIN
of the fire is supposed TO have been
CAUSED by defective fue. A BAzoO
reporter learned from Mr., and Mrs.
Jacobs that they had locked up and
(, left the building about fifteen minute.
before the alarm of FIRE came To their
ears. They kept fire constantly
burning IN the laundry stove, but
when they left the building Oh this
occasion Mrs Jacobs says she left the
stove ill apparently safe condition.
The ilue, about which, the flames
were seen. had been out Of order and
repaired abnut week since. This was
all that MAS discoverable As to the or.
igin Of the blaze.
THE Losses AND INSURANCE
Of the property was AS follows: MIR.
Jacobs lost about $500 worth of fur.
niture and household goods ON which
there WAS no insurance. Miss Hill.
and her brothers loss was very slight
as their furniture was almost all saved;
no insurance ON VIVA, was burned.
Mrs. N. V. b. Shaddock, of st.
Louis. who owned the house in which
Miss Hills and her brother lived, and
which WAS probably worth $500. had
$500 INSURANCE on II Ia reliable com.
pany.
Mr.. john Ready. of Greenville.
No., who owned the other building
which was burned, and which WI:
worth about $500; had insurance on
IL; amount nuL known ca our reporter
Philip Perry, music dealer. who
owned a piano which he had rented
TO Jacobs aud which was burned i,
out $50. that being the value Of the
instrument. Insurance companie:
will not insure instruments thus rent.
ed around from house to house. Hence,
the iuss Was total. John Kelly.
building and furniture were badly
damaged, the latter more by wafer
than fire; both covered by insurance.