The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-12-04
A $4,000 BLAZE.
The Arlington Hotel Smouldering Mass
of Ruias.


this morning the Arlington Hotel, near
| the Depot. was discovered to be on
fire. The yard engine gave the first
alarm, which attracted the attention Of
Deputy Sheriff Davidson and Officer
Ruse, who were taking a man to jail for
| firing a pistol-shot into house of i'll
! fame on Third street. The officers rang
the ire-bell, but at that hour, when all
the world is supposed to be wrapt in
slumber, several minutes necessarily
elapsed before the fremen mustered in
sufficient force to get the hose-cart and
hooks and ladders to the fire. Mean
time the yard engine, which is provided
with pump and hose, turned a stream
of water Oh the building; but the fire
was under such Roadway that it was
impossible to save the building, and the
water from the engine was turned on
the freight house across the street from
the hotel.
When the fremen arrived at the
scene, the hose was attached to the hy-
drant at the Depot House, and the fire.
men devoted themselves to the task of
preventing the fire from spreading. A
space of about sixty feet interviewed
between the hotel and Gus. Krenkel's
corner, and in that space the flremen
stood and kept steady stream on the
Depot House and the residence of Mr..
klenkel, while the yard engine played
on the freight house. The heat was so
| intense that the tiremen had to relieve
each other almost every minute, but
they stood in like heroes, and though
for twenty or thirty minutes they were
enveloped in a shower of burning Goals,
and the destruction of the Depot House
and Krenkels residence seemed newt
able, they saved both and kept the fire
from spreading. Had it not been for
cool heads in the Fire Company-nota-
bly, that of the Foreman, Henry Busch
the Depot House would have been
torn down to prevent the fire from
spreading north on Railroad street.
The Arlington Hotel, owned by S.
b. Hughes, was a new building, and
one of the best in town. The house
and furniture cost over $4,000, and
was insured for $4,000 The inmates
Of the rear part Of the building had to
leave the house in their night clothes,
and only a few articles of furniture in
tn. front part Of the building were
| saved
Mrs. Krenkel and her children had
to run from their residence, and every
thing in the house was removed to a
place of safety.
The restaurant north of krenkels,
occupied by Mrs. +. L. Moore, was also
vacated, and the furniture removed.
Fortunately, there was only slight
breeze blowing at the time, and the
roofs of the buildings were covered with
snow. These circumstances materially
prevented the fire from spreading. The
breeze being from the south saved the
small building occupied as a beer saloon
by Mrs. Urich, on the south side Of the
hotel, which, although charred and
blackened, was not burned.
The U. S. Signal Office was situated
in the front part Of the hotel, and all
of the instruments were destroyed,
though we understand Mr.. Williams,
the Observer, saved a part, if not all,
of the records of the office.
Gus. Krenkel was damaged to the
amount of $3.50 by the fire.
The tiremen kept stream on the
fire until a late hour this morning, and
where yesterday stood the Arlington
Hotel, to-day there is only mass of
smoking ruins.
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