The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-15
FOUR FIRES In DAY.
The Department Kept Running
to Small Blazes.
BIG LOSS TO INSURANCE MEN.


Four dangerous kses 10 Different PORTIONS Of
the city we're qnenched BY ire IRE department.
yesterday. ali within period OF eighteen hourA.
The fyes in each case Eere IN buildings edss-
cent to other buildings On AL sides. and bad any
two Of them occurred simultaneously . csszs-
trous frs would have resulted
Al o'clock last evening occurred the most cx-
citing blaze Of the day. when the fro-ssorr
frame building on the south side Of Columbia
street. between Second and Third, owned By
Mrs. Ellen Brennan, narrowly escaped total de-
stTucficu, About . quarter 70 O'Clock Pat
Moran and JOAN Mcclure, vko rooned
In o1e OF the rooms OF the Sec
ond story. were standing on the
front verzndah and saw tongues Of fame dart
ing through the rooE about the chi inner. The
ncr Of Third and Columbia streets, but so rap
Idly did the flames slwead that when the FIST
zap OF the bell sounded people we're terrified tS
see lively blaze enveloyiug the entire roof
amid the nest OF wco1en structures occupying
that quarter OF the block The bniI6ing was
originally q resstence bit was one Of the soEsses
On the edge of the burnt district that had been
appropriated fo- business purposes after
1 .es ss paint shop sna lodging 's.f loose
were crowded under It's roof, and the intsifi-
gence that it was FIRE made the Iiveiiexf cora-
aSed s .he a1r, sidsx.s &c s 2, 1919
The rapid nun msde By chemical No. saved
the building from total destruction This en-
ElUE maze q lIh1 plunge HON IE3GQl8lEGy4-
straight down Columbia street. and arrived on
the scene before the alarm quit sounding snd
soon quenched the Hames. The other branches
Of the service came up IN good time and in good
order
The grocery store of Wakefield Wood, occu-
pying one side fSo. 2llD of the lower story, had
removed the precsting day. and their store
By the Swiss coffee house owned BY Ass- Fox and
Mrs Gund. They sustained no less By nsne, but
were damaged BY water 10 the extent Of $5s0.
&c h1A 90 her, n n
the Imperial for 81 90 on their goods
Ed Baldwin was proprietor OF the loding-
house In the rear apartments OF the ground aoor
and in the second story. Eighteen BOOMERS had
Yoonsx there. Mrs. p. ). Mzcigan. who roonned
on the lower floor with her husband. was sick
IN bed, and had only time 10 partially dress and
get out before her apartment Was dTeuched- The
loss to Abe lodging house viii probably reach
$500 1t wss insured in sias Hamburg for 500
The damage to the building viii probably
reach about $50. The roof and garnet were
Quilted. and the flames burned down through
the partition back OF the restaurant TO the firxt
floor. Il was insured in the Alta for 81 80 and
out OF business in this city. II was also insured
for 81 30 in the New YORK Underwater.
The total loss. including private losses OF
dodgers. Is about 81 800.
YESTERDAY MORNINGS BLAzEs.
The men and horses in the IRE department.
had . taste OF hard service yesterday morning.
Three alarms were turned in in two hours The
boys had just got decentiy in bed. sitter the Ere
In the European house at -, when they were
called to extinguish the incipient blaze in the
Oak Leaf saloon, at 5 o'clock They had but
just returned to the engine-bou when an
alarm from box s., at O'Clock, was turned In,
and they turned out, again dragging the appa-
ratus through the mud and over the hills TO
Sixth and Stewart streets. TO quench .
confagration in the Pennsylvania Puget Sound
Investment Company's buiIding 9. Had this are
started while the lines were Laid at the Oak Leaf
saloon. q most serious c0nfagration would
have resulted. Adjacent to this building on all
sides were large two and three story buildings
that would have burned like finder. The FIRE
was burning with frightful fury when the de-
partmenf arrived How il originated il I'M
known. A bHckman driving along Pike street
first saw the flames and turned in the alarm, and
Immediately proceeded TO the scene. The
IRE was raging in the second story rear
ing next to the Bowers lodging house and
through the roof. The Bowers house is a fine
new three story building standing about three
feet from the burned block. The dodgers of the
Bowers house were aroused By the hackmen.
through into the hallway OF the third story, fill
ing the building with sliding. smoke,
The upper story of the building In which
the fre originated was Quilted before the
flames were put out. It was occupied
by Mrs knight, but she was away from home
for the night The lower story was occupied by
a barber shop and Northrop's grocery store, the
proprietors families living in the rear of each.
The grocery stock was not injured, but the
goods in the barber shop were badly soaked.
The damage to the building aud contents win
sured for 1850. r. v. Bowers estimates his loss
to building and goods at 81 0o0 lie is also fully
insured. Excellent work was done by the ire
department In extinguiahing the flames.