Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-10-06

A-Bar room III two story section
OF building. -. =. :-,..... =.
B-Large store room in one story
section. +
i C-Small dark room where liquors
are stored and fire was started.
D-Place where ire burned through
from liquor room, and could be seen
from front. @ :. -....
After the tiremen arrived stream
from the Chemical quickly put out
the blaze in the bar room, but the
smoke was SO dense that the firemen
could not search the back part ofthe
room to direct, the stream through
the hole into the liquor room. The
fire was then attacked from the rear,
but the smoke In the large room was
SO dense that men could not get to
the liquor room single board parti-
ton to tear it down, and the barrels
of liquor and, other inflamable stuff
in there had ample chance to burn
until the partitions burned through
and gave a chance to get water on
to the fire. Meanwhile the ceiling
had burned through and the fire
to the rafters in the
one stO, Y part, and the flames had
crept up the: double partition to the
roof Of the main building, and the
under part of that was also ablaze
with flames shooting through be
tween the shingles. Stream were
SO distributed that the fire could moi
spread away from the partition, moi
be communicated to any other parts
It then became a simple question o
wetting the roof soft wouldn't burn
The water pressure was sufficient tt
rip the shingles off the roof, and i
wasnot long before the roof was
poor food for the flames. Before
O'Clock the department was all dis
missed, after doing as effective worl
as any could expect. z5<+.7ss
The fire was very evidently tn,
work of an incendiary, and the win
dowless room filled with liquor was
as favorable a place for his work al
could be found In the city. There il
yet no clew to who is guilty, but nj
effort will: be spared to locate TIL,
criminal, and we trust that if evi
dence enough can be procured tt
hold him for trial that no public OF
fetal will go on his bond. It has al
ways been feared by a large majorit.
OF our people that when fire wa
once we'll started in that woodel
row that the. department woul,
meet defeat, but last night fire ha'
all the start it could ever expect, an,
yet was under complete control a
soon as it had burned its way to til
open air, The work Of the boys, til
management OF the chief and til
service OF the water company wel
all up to the highest standard.
There have been so many exaspel
ating criticism, OF the. Electric & Ws
ter company, that even officif
orders will not always prevent tn
pump man from giving more pre-
Isure than he should, and last evenin
the water came. with too muchfOrc'
With such !. a stream the hosema
cannot control the nozzle, and til
| water Is badly wasted. Yet
pleases the med dlesomecrowd. Tw
/ lengths uf hose We're bursted las
night, and the few ignorant one
who would grumble If the pressul
had been less will have the pleasni
OF knowing that it will cost the cit
| 300 to replace the damaged appars
tus. I'll Is magnificent, Int it isn
war, and we hope last eYening'se 6,
i perience will enable the fremen an
water company to use the pressu1
it desires without general l,buse fo
linefffciency. e .. rs
The merchants Of Royalton VIII
are actively opposing the count
railroad scheme are alive to thei