The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-05
FIRE THIS MORNING.
Windsor House and Adjoining
Buildings Burned.
LOSS ABOUT TWENTY THOUSAND
The Upper Floors Were yacant-Blaze
Started In a saloon-very Little
Insurance.

Fire broke out at o'clock this morning
IN the two-story frame building On the
northeast corner of Jackson and Sixth
streets, which wholly consumed the struc-
ture, together with a drug store and two
saloons, which were located therein, and
also the adjoining building on Jackson
street and part of the Jay Cooke lodging
house adjoining, on sixth street.
The IRE originated in the saloon in the
east end of the building, which was run
by John Shaw & Son. and spread rapidly
Everybody was in bed, and before an
alarm was turned in the ire was bursting
out through the roof, and when the engines
arrived it was beyond control, as it had
spread to the drug store of A. Goetz & Co.,
which occupied the corner, and the oils
made food for the flames.
The only thing that remained for the
hremen 70 do was to protect the adjoining
buildings, which were already on
hre by the time they got to
work. They, however, succeeded in sub
DUNG the flames sufficiently to prevent
to save the greater part of the building adj
joining on Sixth street, known as the jaw
Cooke house, but the adjoining building
on jackson street, the name of the owner
OF which could not be learned, was too
far gone, and all that remains is a scorched
wall.
AT one time ii seemed certain that half
dozen firemen who were playing the hose
on the interior of the building would
be crushed beneath the falling timbers
when a turret window at the corner of the
second story of the drug store came
crashing down on their heads. Fortunately
none OF them were struck by any of the
heavier timbers, and they were extricated
iro,n the debris without serious injury.
The electric current was shut off soon
after the engines arrived, to make it safe
Tor the nremen to work. Chemical en-
gine No. got on the first stream. but was
followed speedily by engine No. 1, which
dropped his pipe into the bay at the foot
Sixth street. Engine No. could not reach
the water, her suction pipe being Shorthand
the tide nearly out. Chemical No. WAS
among the early arrivals, and all the en-
gines were on the field in time to do good
work
The burned buildings on Jackson street
were erected soon after the great fire of
1889, and the upper floors had until re-
Gently been occupied by women of ill-fame.
THE LOSSES.
The losses are as follows: joseph
Chiates, owner of the building SIS
Albert Goetz e. Co., druggists. $500:
Marotti d Vena, saloon, $1,000; Joseph
Chialis, saloon, $1,000; restaurant. $500:
clearinghouse, $500: F. vena, carpenter
shop, $500. The Jay Cooke house. the
hotel Immediately in the rear of the burned
building and fronting ON Sixth street, was
damaged to the extent of ST. The ho-
tel was run by w. E. Dykeman, whose loss
or damage to property burned and de-
stroyed is several hundred dollars. Across
Jrckson street the saloons of John McCarv
and John Maratca were injured 500 each
by ire and water.
THE INSURANCE.
w. L. Gazzam& Co. had placed the fol-
lowing insurance on the property: On
the drug store of Albert Goetz & Co., ST.
600; on the Windsor building, $1,000 with
the North British & Mercantile: on the Jaw
Cook building, on Sixth street, $500. with
the Orient, of Hartford. This building
was badly burned Those were the only
assurances on the whole property, as the
companies would not write for the saloons.
Merchants National Bank of Tacoma,