The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-03
FIRE AT BALLARD.
Destruction of Property Due to Dsfee.
tive Water Pipes.

tive Water Pipes.
At $50 yesterday afternoon q fire started
in back room of the Evening Star saloon
on Ballard avenue, in Ballard, and contin-
ued burning until the adjacent buildings
with most of their contents were de-
stroyed, making q total loss of about
s., 400, which was covered with an insur-
ance of s., loo. No alarm was sounded by
any of the mills, except by the small shin
gle mill OF j. NJ. Donoghue & Co. The
mills were not very prompt in pumping
the water, and when they began to pump
with full pressure, the water main, being
full of holes. failed to convey but small
quantity of water and with such a weak
pressure that the water could barely reach
the roof of the one-story buildings. Itwas
fully half an hour after the fire started be-
fore any water was turned on, and by that
time the Evening Star saloon was burning
fercely, and two-story building on the
south, belonging 10 Hans Nelson, had
caught on the roof and was past saving.
The nre quickly spread to the Standard
hotel, three-story building on the north,
and thence 10 one-story shack, running
back about 100 feet to large shed stored
with cedar lumber and moulding belong
ing to Thomas Winsor, which was par
TALLY Destroyed. The Ballard volunteer
fire department did good work, and in spite
of the insufficient supply of water sue
ceeded in saving the stores ON the opposite
side of the street and the whole block of
wooden buildings from Park place to Sec
ond avenue on the north.
A hose company aud nook and ladder
company from North Seattle arrived after
the fire was under control, and its men,
bers rendered some assistance in saving
the buildings on the other side of the ave-
nue..
The following buildings were burned:
The Evening Star saloon, occupied by
Hanevold & Wirud; loss on building, $500;
insurance. $500; loss on stock and fixtures,
500; insurance. $500. Hans Nelson's two
story building. occupied by Stein & Co.,
boat builders, who saved their tools and
boat: loss on building, 81, 500; insurance,
500. The Standard hotel, owned by ]. III.
lverson. of Clallam county. occupied by
John A. Silven; loss on building, 81 900;
insurance. $500; loss on furniture. $780, A
cne-story shack, occupied by A. F. Ru-
dene as a shoe shop and George Foster as
bakery; loss on building. $500; loss on
tools and stock in shoe shop, $3.50; insur-
ance. $500: loss on bakery. $500; no insur-
NANOs tOS7 OA A0AhStA, SAOVg ~
During the ire the steam pipes of the
kitchen range of the Standard hotel ex-
ploded with a loud noise and hurled pieces
of pipe and lumber over 400 feet Some of
the pieces falling on the roof of the Club
saloon, on the corner of Ballard and Sec
ond avenues. distance of $50 feet.
The proprietors of the saloon do not
know how the ire started. A stranger
from Seattle came out on the last car, and
took room in the rear of the saloon. and
it is said a lamp exploded. but the stranger
could not be found to verify the story
city official requested that nothing be
published about the defective condition of
the water main. because he feared the in
surance companies might cancel their in
surance. But the members of the Seattle
fire department were present, and besides
the insurance companies are already well
acquainted with the condition of Billiards.
system of fire protection.
On the opposite side OF the avenue LOUIS
Anderson's barber shop caught fire, but
was put out before any damage was done.
although the windows were broken and
the interior of the shop was injured by
water. All the glass in the front of +. NJ.
De Moss hardware store, next to Ander-
sons, was broken, and also in the two
buildings north of De Moss