Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-25

A Blasing Ceal Oh Can In N Uns
occupied Lodging Heuse.
At els o'clock last night the alarm OF
FIRE was sounded, and, - usual, for .
while there was confusion, and everybody
was yelling, 'Where is it," Soon the
crowd. which got to be large in . few min
utes. ran after Rescue Hose Company's
machine do wn Monroe street. II was soon
found that the fire was in the lodging
rooms fronting ON the street just men,
toned. usually spoken Of % the Hasten
building, though ii 10 o owned BY Tom
Trainer. The rooms are . part Of the
building which runs east and ends in the
old Hasten saloon, which fronts on Main
street, and is at present occupied as . bar
room by Moore & Morrison. The Resoues
had stopped their hose carriage for .
moment 1t the CLARK street crossing. being
uncertain where TO 60 from that point,
when A. Morrison, one Of the firm men,
toned, rushed out OF the back door OF the
lodging house with . coal oil can in his
arms and threw it into the middle Of the
street. It blazed up and made an excel
lent light for the fremep, who without
loss Of time had their hose in the hall,
from the rooms ON each side Of which the
smoke was escaping IS though there was .
smoking stove in each. In . few minutes
| the apartments had been drenched with
water, and the flames entirely put ont.
| The fire had not extended beyond the
| room in which it started--one of the roome
ON the south side Of the hall-there being
three or four rooms on each side. In this
room . hole had burnt through the floor
into the saloon cellar which extends I'M
derneath, and the door near which
the coal oil can had sat and
the wall were scosched. The origin
| Of the fire, which seems clearly enough TO
have been incendiary, is about this. - we
get it from A. Morrison, the gentleman
already named. He says he was in the
saloon when he heard . singular, cracking
sort Of noise in the rear OF the building
mp stairs, and he asked his partner what it
Was, and whether anybody occupied the
| rooms up there. He hesitated . little
while. and feeling satisfied that it was fire,
he ran around ON TO Monroe street and
rushed in by the back door, which was
| closed and latched but not locked, and
seeing q fire in the last room on the south
side Of the hall he returned and brought
in . bucket Of water, which he ernptied
npon the burning coal oil can. While the
flames were thus for the moment subdued,
he grabbed up the can nearly filed with
oil. and rushing out, threw 1t into the
street as stated-a very dangerous act cor
tainly, for had he stumbled and spilled the
oil upon himself he would have been burnt
alive. There was no danger Of an explo.
sion, as the air was not confined in the
can, the screw being of. The oil, how
ever, % having been on fire and being in.
tensely heated, started into fame again q
soon - the can struck the ground whence
it lighted the neighborhood until the
whole affair was over. The room in which
the fire started was well chosen for . vii
famous. incendiary purpose. 1t Is almos!
midway between the WI streets and had
the flames in it got we'll. underway, the
houses built close up to one another from
it northward would have stood . poor
show to be saved. The skylight in the
room WAS opened, evidently that the fire
should not fail to spread for the lack Of
air. Nobody is known to have any bust
ness in these rooms. The FIRE was not &C
cidental. Whose job was it2