Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-09-28
A QUICK BLAZE.
The Fair Store and Jarvis Grocery and
Fruit Store in Heap Of Ashes.
DESTROYED QUICKLY.
The News Office Narrowly Escaped
Total Destruction Badly Damag.
ed. Heroic Work Saved The
Business Portion of The
Town.-Notes, Etc.

Business Portion of The
Town.-Notes, Etc.
Tuesday afternoon at l:45 O'Clock
when the wind was blowing diminu.
tive hurricane and the dust was flying
along Main street like sand in siroc
co on the desert Of Sahara, the fire
alarm was sounded, and il was soon
learned that watson's Fair store and
Jarvis grocery and fruit store were
ablaze and threatened with total des
truction.
Blackfoot's unorganized fire brigade
promptly answered the call, and in a
moment, realized that the building
must go but that the goods in the
two stores might be saved. AS quick
as thought those daring heroes rushed
within the blazing walls and under a
blazing roof and removed the goods
and furniture OF the building TO a
point of safety in the street. The
last man left the burning building
none too soon.
TaE News Office, the next in line,
was threatened and in imminent dan.
ger, and it was plain 10 everyone that
should il go down the largest portion
of the business part of the town
would be swept away as quickly as
the leaplng flames could reach the
buildings. AT Tue News office the
heroic work was done. As quickly
as the Fair store had been stripped OF
its goods Just as quickly the heavy
presses, stones, cases and all the ma
terials und furniture Of the office were
removed TO the street, and then came
the struggle 10 save the building 1t
was an infuriated FIRE driven by the
GLOW Of a small hurricane against
brave, determined men; time and
again the building caught on fire and
the tanned flames were spreading, but
the brave men met them and prevail.
ed.
Had The News building gone down
70 power at hand could have saved
Curtis hardware store, and from that
the entire row of frame buildings and
Others across the street might have
followed in quick succession. But at
the right time and with the right
work the blazes whipped to fury by
the quick winds pouring around the
high walls Of the Touring mill were
brought into subjection and much Of
Main street was thus saved from total
destruction.
The building occupied by the Fair
store and Jarvis fruit store was the
property Of Judge Morgan, OF Boise,
and upon which the Judge had no
insurance. Messrs. Watson of the
Fair store, and Jarvis of the fruit
store, carried no insurance upon their
respective stocks The News build
ing and The News plant were parli.
ally insured ana 10 sufficient sums to
cover all losses. In the hurried re.
moyal to the streets two presses Of
THE News were broken and the type
badly mixed and pied, but we are not
much delayed in getting out our reg
ular weekly edition.
The fire is supposed to have origi.
mated from sparks from smoke stack
of the mill These fell into straw
and waste paper in boxes piled near
the building, and being famed into a
quick blaze by the raging wind were
soon at their work Of destruction. All
the windows of the mill on the north
next to the ire were burned, but no
damage was done to the machinery or
the works of the interior of the build
ing. That the fire should have been
confined to one building when the
wind blowing at speed of 40 miles
au hour was doing so much to make
ii mighty connagration seems all
most miraculous and shows that there
is protecting arm over the Grove
City and that the Fates have decreed