Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-12-27
CHRISTMAS FIRES.
A Kansas City Cracker and Candy
Factory Burned.
FIRE STARTS IN TIE CHEMICALS,
The Handsome Building Of the Y. NJ. &. A
vt Albany, N. T., Gutted by Fire
business Houses In Browning.
ton, No., burned.

mOuub CIhcheI anu tdnuy W. Duiiu
ing at Ninth street and Santa Fe ave-
nue. caught fire at ll;l5 o'clock last
night and 1t was estimated that about
s50,00O damage was done before the
flames were put out The building
stood on the northeast corner Of the
two streets and was tive-story brick.
The basement was filed with flour and
sugar, the first floor was used by the
shipping department. while on the
second, third and fourth floors was the
machinery department.
The fire started on the third floor in
the chemical laboratory. Waterman
r. W. Eaton was on the floor above at
the time. lie smellcd the smoke that
forced It's way to the upper rooms and
he ran down 10 the third floor to be
driven TO lower floor by the flames.
The fire burned rapidly.
There was fire alarm box in the of.
fce on the first floor and Eaton turned
In three alarms on it without effect
Then Mike Conklin, special policeman
for WEIGH & Glenn, turned in an alarm
over the telephone and the fire depart
ment Immediately responded. Fire
company No. was the first TO arrive.
Flames we're bursting from the win
dows OF the third floor and it looked as
though the building was doomed. In
short time water was turned into the
flames, but the pressure was weak, A
second alarm was rung in and all the
companies in the city except five were
called out
The steamers were called into use
and improved materially the pressure.
Six lines Of hose were run up TO the
Elevated road tracks and the fremen
got better results than they could from
the ground, although fully a dozen
streams were playing on the fire from
the ground, while aerial ladders were
used on the south and west sides Of the
building. Ladders were run up at the
sides OF the building, but the tongues
OF flame which reached out through
the windows from the third floor held
the hreneh paeK ana hhatly forced
them TO abandon the night from the
ladders.
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