Mohave County miner., 1898-05-21
RINGMAN
 IN FLaMEs. TWENTY-sIX
 BUILDINGS
 BURNED.
OUR FINEST BLOCK
 q BEHp OF RUINS.

For the second time in ten years King man was baptized in fire. The wind was blowing gale from the south-just such a day as that which saw the greater part of Kingman devoured by the fiery ele- ments ten years ago. The first alarm Sunday evening called the railroad men to extipguish fire at the water tank. After this task was completed fire was discovered issuing from the Dennis Lum. Der Conn pany yards, but the application of a few buckets of water queoched the flames. Hardly had the people returned from the lumber yards when again the dread cry of fire" was heard. This time great black clouds of smoke were seen issuing from the warehouse of the White Hills Mining Company on the south side of Front street. It seemed but an instant until the flames burst forth, it's long licking tongue stretching out across the street in a seeming en. deaver to reach the buildings on the other side. The whirlIng guests of wind of Gaddis & Perry and that building was soon fiery furnace. The heat and flames from ,he two buildings spread across the street and the frame buildings on the north side were soon blazing furiously. One by one the other buildings in the block caught and it looked as though the whole town was doomed. Alter the warehouse ot the Kingmsn Mercantile Company had gone down in flames the wind veered around to the southeast and every eG1rt was made to save the Lake building. Thirty men worked from cellar to roof to beat off the flames and they succeeded at last alter the windows and frames in the rear of the second story had been burned oIt. ca Gaddis & Perry's store an effort was made to stop the spread of the flames and half the men of the town worked like beavers in the bucket brigade. Saying the Lake and Gsddis & Perry buildings saved the town east of Fourth street Had they burned few houses would have been left. A remarkable freak of the fire was the escape of the little houses of Thomas McMshon and the Burke estate on Beale street. They were in the direct track of the fire, but escaped with slight scorch. ing. The big wooden windmill in the rear of the Hubbs House looked like s monster pinvheei while the flames were devouring it.
 The dense smoke filled the street and houses 80 soon after the first outbreak and the fire reached such rapid headwsy that few escaped with more than the clothes they wore. Only two or three trunks were saved from the Hubb' House and other buildings. In fact peo ole were so paralyzed by the suddennes' of the fiery vision that they realized wher too late they had saved nothing. In th, saloon of Mulligan X Hubbs three hun dred dollar cash register and one hun dred dollars in cash was left in thu flames. The magnificent ore cabinet O E. F. Thompson was also destroyed From every part of town people wer rushing around in wild excitement witl their vauables and household effects knowing not where they would be safe Pieces of boards that had burned to
 coal were sent hurtling through the air setting fire to everything infsmabl where it fell. Crozier & Mackenzie barn, on Third street, was set on fire b one of these brands and consumed. Tn school house, iiil, and residences of J R. Russell and John Barry were set fir to but the watchers with water guenche the incipient blazes.