Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-12-16

tools were saved. Among the things
which were lost was the new dental
chair, which arrived but few days
ago. Dr.. Wright estimates his loss
at no less than $500.
Miss Nellie La Rochelle was anoth-
er Of the unfortunate occupants of
the building. She had her dress max
ing parlors on the second floor in the
rear. Unfortunately for her, how
ever, she was not able to save many
of her things. Her loss will be
covered by 5000.
second floor and her loss will be
almost total. The loss is estimated
in that OF Mr.. Cardinals.
There We're a number OF other Oc-
cupants of the building who lost
most Of their belongings. w. A.
Tremblay had several hundred dol
lars worth of furniture and valu-
able wardrobe ON the second floor,
but saved nothing. His whole time
was devoted to attempting to ex-
tinguish the fire and saving the goods
from the first story.
Frank Beatty, bookkeeper for the
Riverside Milling company, had a
room in the building, and was one OF
the first to get out. Instead OF at
tempting to save his own possessions
he turned his attention to saving
the property of Others, and rendered
valuable assistance.
William Wetzel was another who
did good work. He also room in
the building and lost about all he
possessed with the exception of what
he managed to put on his back when
the fire was first discovered.
$. Burton, the cigar manufacturer,
moved his his stock across the street
at an early hour. He had several
hundred dollars worth of tobacco in
the basement which could not be
moved, and which was badly dam
aged.
Much praise is due to the firemen
for the work which they did. The
members all turned out as promptly
as possible at the first alarm and did
all that was possible. The weather
was sU cold that the water soon
froze, and it was not long before all
those on duty looked more like mOv-
ing icicles than human beings. They
stood to their work despite the cold
and did good work in preventing the
fire from spreading to the adjoining
buildings, although it was beyond
their power to prevent the damage
which was done.
At one time it looked as if they had
the fire under control before the loss
was as serious as it turned out to
be. They were correspOnding]y
encouraged but the flames worked
up between the partitions and broke
out in a fresh place
At no time was the tire what could
be termed Il hot one. There was no
fierce bursting forth of the flames.
but on the contrary the flames slowly
but surely worried their way through
made it's appearance in one part OF
the building, and it had been snbdued
there, it would break out in a fresh
place. No blame can he attached to
the department in any way for not
extnguishing the flames for the
reason that it was what is termed a
'blind' fire, the hardest posi- Die
kind which the firemcn have to
contcnd with.
Mr.. Cardinal was the only one who
carried any insurance. He had
$4,000 with George LaFOnd, 81 900
being with the Western Insurance
company, of Toronto, on household
goods, and a like amount with the
Niagara, on the building Victor
Schallern had 81 ,273 in the Norwich
! Union ON fixtures and Paul Gaethke
had $4,000 placed with the .Etna. Or
the building aud with the st. Pau
= Fire and Marine ON stock. This
makes the total insurance $5,275.
The appearance OF the ruins this al
: ternooE is anything but picturesque
The roof is entirely burned off. ant
the rear portion OF the second foo
fallen into the basement. Black ant
charred timberS and pieces Of iurni
ture are on all sides. The still
smOuldering ruins, covered with ic'
2 and water made a sad spectacle .
e what was one of the handsomes
S blocks in the city yesterday.
The water supply this mornin:
: was inexhaustable. At one tim
e there were seven streams playin!
! upon the building. Even with tina
number the pressure was more. thai
sufficient to throw the streams owe
S the building. Two men had all the.
: could do to hold the nozzle OF th
II hose. AS it was, in one or tw,
II instances tn, hose got away from
+ them. For over six hours th
g pressure was maintained at til
II point desired by the chief e..
Chief LaFOnd handled his me
e with ability and directed the stream
v where they could do the most goo(
d George F. Kuntz, special agent {
Il the Phoenix Insurance company <
e. Hartford, Conn, who was in tn
d city this morning speaks in the mos
is encouraging manner OF the way
it which the fire was handled, and (
n the pressure maintained by tt
* Electric & Water company.