Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-12-01
AANDAN'S MS OH UNE. D
THE TOWN rs YLsITED By q
$4,000 FIRE
Three Hotels, Restaurant, . Hard
ware Store And q Grocery House
Devoured- The Bismarck Fire
men to the Rescue.
The Particulars.

The Particulars.
At about $50 Wednesday merning flre
was discovered in the restaurant Of Mack
& Drury, Mandan, supposed to have
caught from a defective Il iue, and in less
than i've minutes the building was in
flames. The wind was high and the
flames spread both ways. The terror
stricken people worked like heroes, but
beyond saving few goods it was Of no
avail. Alow Of stores, where eight per
cent. insurance is paid is as good q thing
as fire wants. Mack and his wife bare.
~ escaped with their lives. Next door.
east was P. H. Byrne's three story hotel,
the Commercial, around which the fiery
demon Tapped his tongue aud yawned for
more. The Mandan house followed the
Commercial, and to the west was the Pa
ciac house, Strong, Hacke,t & Co.'s hard.
ware store, and O'Ruarc & McGillic's
grocery, on the corner, the building be.
longing to John Whalen, of Bismarck.
For while Farnsworth's dry good house
was threatened, and but for sudden shift
of the wind another block of buildings
would have been in ashes. The fire was
finally checked by tearing down q build
ing next to the land Office of, T. J. Nit
chell. The Emerson institute was saved
by good work, and is prob bly, we'll in.
sured by this time,as will be great many
other institutions, now that 'sthe horse is
stolen" About 1890 Superintendent
Taylor, Of the Missouri division, seeing
that the fire was likely to spread rapidly,
and the town having no fire engine, being
almost entirely at its mercy,
TELRaRAPHED TO BISMARCK
for assistance. Mayor Raymond respond.
ed quickly, and the tap of the fire bell
was sufficient to draw out the drenbn
and hundred or two volunteers to aid
the distressed city. Agent Davidson had
a couple Of fiat cars and switch engine
in readiness, and in less than fifteen min
utes after receipt of the message asking
for assistance, the train was moving to-
ward the bridge, and in exactly thirty
five minutes halted in front of the fire In
Mandan. Although the flames were by
this time under control, the boys took the
engine off The car and demOnstrated what
they might have done had they been tele-
graphed for an hour sooner. The Bis.
marckers were courteously treated on
every side. and through the kind invita-.
tion of the Inter-O Ocean hotel, were served
with 9 good dinner before returning to
the metropolis.
The Bismarck firemen deserve great
praise for the prompt m amer in which
they responded, and only regret that they
could not nave been on the ground earlier.
THE LOSSES.
The following are the losses and inaur.
ances: O'Ruarc & McGillic, qrocers.
building and stock, loss $1,4O0, insur,
ance $500; John Whaten, building
500, no insurance ;St,ong, Hackett d Co.
stock, loss $400, insurance, $4,000; w. o
Winston, building, loss $l,'.O0; E. Buck
ley, building and furniture, loss SIS 600.
insurance, $3,0 900; P. H. Byrnc, building
and furniture, l,,ss $4,000, insurance, 81
200; John Mack, stock and building, loss
$500; -. Cot, building, loss &4OO;
Mandan house, Michael Keating, loss
$4,000.
FIRE BRANDS.
P. II. Byrne will open his hotel in the
opera house temporarily. He had about
800 bushels Of potatoes in the cellar of his
burned building, which was more than
his boarders could eat baked at one time.
O'Ruarc 8 McGill,c immediately
moved into one of the Vinton bricks, at
the west end of town.
w. A.. Wilson, formerly of Bismarck,
escaped luckily. He had about concluded
the purchase of the ha DWARF stock Of
Strong, Hacket, & Co., and three hours
more would have seen the trade consum.
mated. However, he did ,ose his coat and
$500 in money, which he had in his coat
pocket.
John Whalen went over to Mandan last
evening to make arrangements for re-
Golf will probably also re-
build.
Bismarck responded nobly, and Man.
dan would have done as we'll had the
tables been turned.
Mandan will probably now negotiate
for an engine, and there being scarcity
Of water chemical one IS what they want.
The Mandan Widow.