The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-05
FIRE FEEDS ON CAKE.
Bakery Consumed by a Danger
Gus Midnight Blaze.
paoMpr SERVICE OF FIREMEN.
marrow Escape OF workmen-Horse
Burned TO Death-Insurance ON
stock and Buildings Light.

Fire broke out in the Eureka bakery at
s08 Colurnbia street last night few min
aifes after II clock, and before the flames
were under control the bakery proper, a
t.o-story frame building facing Columbia
street, together with several stables in the
rear, were damaged TO the extent of about
S.. 600. while one horse, a splendid bay, the
property Of d. A. Duffy 6 Co., was burned
TO . crisp.
The buildings were owned by James
Teddy, who lives at Green lake. He is the
principal loser, being out about $1,000. 1t
was said last night that he is fully in
sured. The Eureka bakery was owned and
run by ID. Duffy d Co., and the damage to
their stock and bakery fixtures will
amount to 81, 900 or even more, with about
$500 insurance in several companies.
Noone knows exactly how the fire started.
At IL O'Clock Fremont Morgan, young
boy on his way to the Rainier hotel, passed
the bakery and the smell and sound of es-
Gaping gas in the kitchen part Of the ba-
kerry, attracted his attention. He passed
on, and five minutes later. upon returning
from the Rainier, he saw the whole roof
Of the kitchen on fire. At about the same
time Officer John Sullivan saw the flames
from Second street and rushing TO Third
and Columbia streets he turned in an
alarm from box 26. Instantly the engines
yurned out from the various houses and
with chemical No. / and several hook
and ladder companies came tearing down
the streets to where the flames, having
spread to the large frame house fronting
on the street and to the stables in the
Goals and smoke rapidly upward.
The buildings were old and dry and
burned like finder From the time the
flames were first discovered 1t was scarcely
two minutes before the roofs of the several
structures in the immediate vicinity
were burning furiously. The reflec-
tions from the shooting, roaring flames
lit up the tall spire of the
First Methodist church at the corner
of Third and Madison streets, and many
people who viewed the scene from afar
thought that structure was ablaze and
hurried down town. From other direc-
tons the reflection was thrown on massive
brick and stone buildings, and those
who viewed thought that the whole
town was aflre and lost no
time arriving at the scene. By
the time the last engine arrived at least
500 people were standing in the streets,
and like Seattle people, all were ready to
lend helping hand.
Engine No. l had just got a stream on
the burning buildings when man only
partially attired ran out Of the bakery and
shouted:
1.-THE horses in the stables"
He was ]. Chute, of the firm of d. A.
Duffy IL Co., and immediately several fire.
men ran to the spot. The bakery stables
were all on FIRE Below the roofs and in
side we're tied six fne horses 4 fireman
rlsIsd Ia and cut the ropes with
fire AK Seyrsai more firemen led the
] .s-sfses ont -Four of them were secured In
safety, and two men oarted through the
cracking flames and sitting smoke after
pair Of magnificent bays worth $500. The
backs of both the horses were abIaze. One
of the animals was led to the barn door
aud ran shrieking down the alley, flames
licking up the hair and flesh from his
head to his tail, and pieces of burned
flesh dropping to the ground. A stream
from hose was sent shooting along the
back of the horse, and the flames died out
with cracking sound, and with final,
heart-rending neigh, the animal disap-
peared down deep, darkened alley on the
opposite side of the street.
The mate of this splendid animal would
not leave the stable and was soon burned
TO crisp.
In small stable adjoining that of the
bakery were two handsome horses belong
ing to r.. r. Bush, and these were led out
by firemen without either of them suffer-
ing injury.
Across the alley the flames leaped over
10 the old Hyde stable that served the
posr- INrELLIeEScE2. when the city was in
ashes nearly two wears ago, as a>compos-
ing roesg sr u herses were in this
stable. but they were taken out by their
keeper,
Eneines 1, 2 and 3 soon had several
streams each on the fire. and chemical No.
and hook and ladders Nos. l and did
good work The firemen were all brave
and worked like Trojans. The fire was
under control by Pas O'Clock, and at 80
o'clock was practically out. The
big frame building fronting on Columbia
street suffered damage of about $500, and
W. Il. Langdon, who rented the upstairs
portion of the house as dwelling, was
damaged considerably.
j. Chute, slept in n room near the
kitchen. He does not know how the
fire originated When he was
awakened the kitchen was all ablaze
III a few minutes the flames had
reached the stable. Here were sleeping
five men, four of them drivers for the bak.
cry Company. They were J. A. Jones. II
W. Sleeves. c. Jennings. w. leech and F.
Il. lIennon. They have no idea how the
fire started, and they barely had time &c
esra NO with their livaS