Hutchinson gazette., 1898-11-17
A WOMAN'S ANGER.
II Causes a Disastrous Fire at
Dawson Clty.
LOSS ONE.HALF MILLION DOLLARS
size Threw Lighted Lamp at Another
Woman aud started u ilaHo
That Destroyed Forty
Buildings,

Staguay, Alasloa, November 7, Via
Victoria, II. C., November 16,--lieturn-
ing KlOndlkers 0rrlying In this city
Monday bring the news ihat the city
OF Dawson has been visited with a
$500, 900 fire, In which forty buildings
were burned, including the new post
office building and some of the best
buildings IN the city. The fire took
place on the morning of October l6.
IL started In the Green Tree Saloon,
as The result OF % row between two
women of the town. Belle Mitchell
threw lighted lamp at another wo'
man. The lamp broke, the oil spread,
and i'm u few seconds the building was
on fire.
The fire started at $3.50 q. m. The
fire OF year ago was caused by this
same woman, who threw n lamp at u
man with whom she had quarrel
A month ago she tried to burn her
own place In Third avenue, In D0w-
son, by throwing a lamp at woman
and nearby caused conflagr0liion by
again losing her temper and welding
another lighted lamp,
The news of the conilagratlon was
brought out by several OF the miners
Who arrived in this city. The steamer
ORA left Dawson October 20 and
twenty through passengers reached
Bennet yesterday morning.
At the time the police gong sounded
the fire alarm, q high wind was blow
ing down the Yukon, and the people
at once saw that II would require
speedy and quick work to save the
town from total destruction. The
postofRce 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, II Is in great
confusion,
An that remains TO show where for
mery forty buildings stood are few
blackened logs, The town was saved
from total destruction by the fire
engine. II II had not been that about
1000 men turned owt and worked Hike
Trojans, with wet blankets, buckets
Of water aud axes and aided in the
operation OF the fire apparatus, the
whole town would have gone up In
smoke.
The Klondike Nugget says that the
losses will be difficult to estimate,
but the following list is given outs
Worden's hotel, total loss, $4,000;
Pattson & McGrath's New England
saloon, $4,000; postorfce building,
owned by Alexander Mcdonald, $780,
900; Green Tree saloon, SS5, 900; EN-
pire Bakery building, $4,000; Ne
Pherson a. johnson, stock and build'
Ing, 100000; Vancouver hotel, $4,000;
John Sargent saloon, $4,000; New
York store and ladies bazar, $4,000;
Case & Gilsey, $4,000; Dawson Tor
toni, Jack Thorn, proprietor, and Mel
lie Lewis, and several others, $4,000;
Hubbard Boot and Shoe store and siX-
teen small buildings, $4,000; i, A,
Sutter, icweler, lost everything he
hNd; d. FlNtew tailor, $4,000; John
Mcdonald, stock and building, tailor,
$G,000 George Brewett, tailor, $4,000;
Roley, butcher, $4,000; Seattle lunch
counter, $4,000; restaurant, small
stores, etc, ON opposite side Of street,
$4,000; twelve cabins, furniture, etc,
S1S,OO0 damage by water on stocks,
etc, $4,000; damage to goods and
stocks throughout entire burned dis
trict, claimed by losers to be 100000,
deductng SO per cent $4,000. To-
tal $503,O00,
There il mo insurance at Dawson,
and The loss falls entirely on the In.
dividuals.
The mounted police are investgat.
ing the origin OF the fire. IT was at
first thought that the fire was the
result of an incendiary, but this sus-
picion has been entirely dlsslputed.
The miners now in Skaguay 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 railroad, which is
operating two trains daily between
this city and the pass. Very little
ice was found in the upper river,
which Is remarkable ut this time OF
the year. The first ice was seen com
ing out Of the TeheenU into the Yu-
kon. At Marsh lake there was little
ice, but it was not over quarter OF
am inch thick, and the steamer had
no difficulty i'm 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 lum-
ber and window glass in Dawson to
rebuild the burned district, and that
the people are in distress and will
have to live in tents for the rest OF
the winter.