Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-29
QUIJoToA.
Destroyed by Fire. The Whole Town
 in Ruins.

From Mr. H. J. Sower who arrived from the Quijotoa late last night the first news of the destruction of that town were obtained. It appears that about noon time on Wednesday last, a fire started in the rear of the old Archie Nivens building on the south side of the main street, and in few minutes the entire town was practically in ashes. At the Quliotoa there has been no rain and the wooden buildings dried by the intense heat of the sun, burst into flames almost simultaneously so that the last one to take fire was in ashes as speedily as the first. The old Archie Nivens building was large frame, or | iginally built for and occupied as a store, but recently made use of as lodg- ing house. In the rear of the building a Mexican woman kept little restaur- ant, and it was here the fire first started, through contact of the stovepipe with i the roof.
 | Adjoining this building on the East was the meat market of August Daguerre on the west was the Restaurant of Mrs. Mellon, and adjoining it a large frame building owned by Messrs. Southerland & Urquides, and occupied by these gentlemen as saloon; adjoining 1t still farther on the west was lare adobe building owned by Messrs. Ruffner & Williams. This building originally cost 5000. It Was built by Messrs Ruffner < Teitsworth short ly after the camp was first struck It was divided into separate apartments by heavy adobe walls, being originally intended for merchandise purposes. The first of these stores on the east was oc. cupied by MT. H. J. Sewers, the second by Mir. Verdugo, both of which gentle men carried large stock of goods, the third by E. J. Williams as saloon. The building was iron rooted and under al ordinary circumstances would have es capped, but the wind drove the fire tC the front and in an instant the door! and windows were a sheet of flame, anC the next moment the interior was like ; roaring furnace. The wind carried tht , flames across the street into Mrs. Ste wards restaurant, formerly known as tn, Star Hotel" and from there to ever, house in the vicinity. Among other } buildings destroyed was the residence , of MT. H. J. Sower, together with hi
 large corral.
 !, | In every respect the loss was complete \ practically nothing was saved and a. ' the only insurance in the camp was 3 little carried by MT. Sewers on his stock ! it has left the people practically destitute
 NOTES.
 !, The entire loss will reach probabl, f about s8,0OO.
 The two merchants, Messrs Sower an, 3 Verdugo carried about S40O0 worth O ]. goods between them.
 Mrs. Mellon lost everything she ha I but the Restaurant she was running b
 longed to Mrs: Lindstrom, who was ab
 sent from the town Mrs. Mellon rent
 ed the place.
 Mrs. Stewards loss was quite heavy a s in addition to her restaurant fixture 7 she had several hundred dollars wort l, of provisions on hand. All she save, r was one trunk and a sewing machine. 2 Sutherland & Urguidis lost thre , buildings.
 9 There was also a large number c l minor losses.
 When the fire broke out the BonanZ
 Company blew their whistles and sen
 all it's men out of the mines to subdu
 the flames, but as strong wind wa
 blowing and there being no water, it wa S impossible to render much assistance.
 Mir. F. A. Stevens hauled water iron
 the company's works with team an y did whatever was possible to help sub - iugate the flames.
 The camp is practically destitute c . provisions and it is understood tha . some will be sent from here in the morn ing.