Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-11-16
A LIGHTED LAMP.
Belle Mitchell Threw it at An
other Woman and Started
a 100000 Fire.
FORTY HOUSES At DAWSON BURNED.
Ihe New Post Office and Many of the
Best Business Places Nothing
But Blackened Ruins.
There 10 Not Enough Lumber and Glass In
Dawson City to B-bu,ld the Burned
Distri -Ths People Are In Ds-
tress aud WIN Live in Tsa,a

ulkers arriving In this city Monday
brings the news that the city Of Daw-
son has been visited with a $500. 900 fire
in which 40 buildings were burned, in
Guiding tho new post Office building
and some of the best buildings in the
city. Tha dre took place on the morn
ing of October lG. 1t started in the
Green Troe saloon as the re-
suit of II row between two
women of the town. Belle Mitchell
threw lighted lamp at another wom-
an. The lamp broke, the oil spread
and in u few seconds the building was
on fire. The fire started at $50 a. IN.
The ire OF year ago was caused by
this same woman, who threw lamp at
man with whom she had u quarrel
A month ago she tried to burn her own
place in Third avenue in Dawson by
throwing lamp at woman and near
ly caused a conhagration by again los
ing her temper and welding another
lighted lamp.
The news of the confagration was
brought out by several of the miners
who arrived in this city. The steamer
Ora left Dawson October 20, and 20
through passengers reached Bennett
yesterday morning.
AT the time the police gong sounded
the fire alarm light wind was blow
ing 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 post
office was the next building south of
the Green Tree saloon, and the work
of getting the mail matter out was
quickly done. Although nearly all
the mail was saved it is in great con-
fusion. All that remains to show
where formerly 40 buildings stood are
a few blackened logs, and the town
was saved from total destruction. by
the fire engine. If it had not been
that about 1000 men turned out and
worked like trojans with wet
blankets, buckets of water and axes
and aided in the operation of the
fire apparatus the whole town
would have gone up in smoke. The
Klordillc Budget says that the losses
viii be difficult to estimate but the
following list is given OUT: Wordcn
hotel, total loss, $4,000; Pattison Is
McGraths New England saloon, S4, 900;
post Office building, owned by Alex
ander Mcdonald, $4,000; Green Tree
saloon, $50, 900; Empire Bakery building,
$40, 900; Mcpherson ~ Johnson, stock
and building, $4,000; Vancouver hotel,
S25, 900; John Sargent, saloon, $4,000;
New York Store and Ladies' Bazaar,
S21, 200; Case and Gilsey, $4,000; Daw.
son Tortoni, Jack Thorn, proprietor
and Nellie Lewis and several others,
S43, 900; Hibbard boot and shoe store
and 16 small buildings, $4,000; E. A.
Sutter, jeweler, lost everything he had
l.. Flatew, tailor, $4,000; John Nc
Donald, tailor, stock and building,
So, 1000; George Brewett, tailor, $4,000
Foley, butcher, $1,000; Seattle
Lunch Counter, $4,000; restaurants
small stores, etc, on opposite
side of the street, $4,000; 10 cabins
furniture, ETC., $4,000; damage to
buildings by water to stocks, etc, $50,
600; damage to goods and stocks
throughout the entire burned district
claimed by losers to be 100000, de
Quoting so per cent. $4,000. Total
S5O3, 900. There is no insurance a
Dawson and the loss falls entirely OF
the individuals.
The mounted police are investigat
ing the origin of the fire. 1t was
first thought that the fire was the result
of an incendiary but this suspicion
had been entirely dissipated.
The miners now in Skagway left
Dawson on the steamer Ora and at
White Horse transferred to the steamer
Olive May and came TO Ben
nett. From White Pass they
came to this city on the rail
road, which is operating two trains
daily between this city and the pass
Very little ice was found in the upper
river, which is remarkable at this time
of the year. The first ice seen was
coming out of Teheena into the Yukon.
At Marsh lake there was lit
tie ice, but it was not over a
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.
1t is said there is not enough lumber
and window glass in Dawson to rebuild
the burned district and that the people
are in distES9 md will have to i've in
tents for ~ fest of the winter.
ST. PAUL, MIMI, Nov. l5.--The w.
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