The record-union., 1898-11-15
Over Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
Worth Of Property Burned.
at Enough Lumber and Window
Glass in Dawson to Rebuild the
Ruined District, and That Many
People Will Have to Live in
Tents for the Rest of the Win
ter.

| c., Nov. 4).-Returnlng KlOndikerS ar
irving in this city to-day bring the
news that the city Of Dawson has been
visited with a S500000 fire, in which
forty buildings We're burned, including
the new Postoffice building and some
of the best buildings in the city.
| The fire took place on the morning of
| October 10th, and started in the Green
! Tree saloon. The blaze was started
as the result of a row between two
women of the town, in which one of the
women known as Bell Mitchell threw a
| lighted lamp at another woman. The
lamp broke. the oil spread, and in a few
seconds the building was on fire. The
fire started at 500 a. m.
The fire of a year ago was caused by
| this same woman, who threw a lamp
at man with whom she had quarrel.
A month ago she burned her own place
on Third avenue, N Dawson, by throw
| ing a lamp at a woman, and now she
caused confiagration by again losing
her temper and welding another light
ed lamp.
The news of the confagration was
brought out by several of the miners
who arrived in this city to-day. The
steamer Ora left Dawson October Goth,
and the twenty through passengers
reached Bennett yesterday morning.
AT the time the police gong sounded
the fire alarm wind was blowing
down the Yukon, and the people at once
saw that it would require speedy and
quick work to save the town from total
/ destruction. The Postoffice was the
next building south of the Green Tree
saloon, and the work Of getting the let
| ters and parcels of mail matter out was
attended to quickly. Although nearly
ali the mail was saved, it is in great
confusion.
All that remains to SOW where for
merly forty buildings stood are a few
blackened logs, and the town was saved
from total destruction by the fire en-
gine.
Among the men injured as the result
of the fire, due to burns, falling logs
and fire brands, were Private Mullens
of the infantry, contusions, sprains and
burns, and G.. O. Ellis
If it had not been that about 1000
men turned out and worked like Tro-
jams with wet blankets, buckets of
water and axes, and aided in the oper-
alton of the fire apparatus, the whole
town would have gone up in smoke.
The "Klondilze Nugget" of the 18th
ult, says that the losses are difficult to
estimate, but the following list is CIV
en-: Worden Hotel, total loss, $40 100;
Pattison &, McGrath's new saloon, $44,-
600; Postoffice building, owned by
Alexander Mcdonald, $4,000; Green
Tree saloon, total loss $4,000; Empire
Bakery building, fully occupied, $40
600; Mcpherson & Johnson, stock and
building, $4,000: Vancouver Hotel,
q
600; New York store and ladies' bazar,
$21 900: Case & Gilsey's, $1,000; Mai
son Totoni, Jack Thirn proprietor, and
Nellie Lewis and several others, $43,-
000 Hibbard Boot and Shoe store and
sixteen small buildings, $4,000; E. A
Stuter, jeweler. lost everything he had;
T. Flatew, tailor, total loss $4,000;
John Mcdonald, stock and building,
tailor, $4,000; George Brewett, tailor,
$4,000: Foley. butcher, $1,000; Seattle
Lunch Counter, total loss $4,000: res
taurant, small stores, etc, on opposite
side of street, $4,000 twelve cabins
furniture, ETC., $4,000; damage to
buildings by water to- stocks, ETC., $50
600; damage to good and stocks
throughout entire burnt district,
claimed by losers to be $100000; de-
Quoting fifty per cent $4,000 Total
$500, 900.
There is no insurance at Dawson, and
the loss falls entirely upon the individ-
ualS.
The mounted police are investigating
the origin of the fire. It was at first
thought that the fire was the result of
an incendiary, but this suspicion had
been entirely dissipated before the pas
sengers for the outside left Dawson
The passengers now in Skaguay left
Dawson on the steamer Ora, and at
White Horse transferred to the steam
er Olive May and came to Bennett
From White Pass they came to this
city on the railroad, which is operating
two trains daily between this city and
the pass. Very little ice was found
in the upper Yukon. which is remark
able at this time of the year. The
first ice seen was coming out Of the
Teheena into the Yukon At Marsh
Lake there was a little ice, but it was
in patches and not over quarter of an
inch thick. and the steamer had no
difficulty in pushing her way through.
The Ora is the last steamer of the
season All the rest are now tied up
until the river opens in the spring
Tt is said that there is not enough
lumber and window glass in Dawson 70
rebuild the burned district. and that
the people are in distress. and will have
to live in tents for the rest of the
winter.