Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-09-14
FIRE CLAIMS
 TWO VICTIMS.
The Residences Of E. s. Davis and H. T. Andrews Consumed by
 Flames This Morning.
Several People More or Less Seriously Injured While Engaged in
 Saving Properly.

come slnRly seems 10 nave been we'll | demonstrated in this section re- gently. Following closely on the heels of the disaster at Jerome, where three lives were lost by the l caying of the mine, came the terri ! ble explosion of locomotive boiler | in Prescott, resulting in the death l of two men. Another terrible hor- TOT occurred here at sn early hour this morning in which two human | lives were sacrificed.
 At twenty minutes past two o'clock the residence occupied by F. s. Davis on Pleasant avenue was l discovered to be on fire and an alarm was promptly sounded, to which the fire department responded with equal promptness. The flames had made considerable headway be- fore being discovered, but despite the fact that a steep hill had to be traversed by the fire department, they arrived in ample time to have checked the flames and to have pre- vented them from spreading if there had been a supply of water.
 Mir. Davis wife and daughter left on Monday morning for the east and he was engaged, until Q late hour last night, in packing up his household goods for storage, prepar- atory to leaving the house today, when M. E. Morin and wife were to have moved into it. At the hour named Mir. Davis was awakened from Q sound slumber by his little dog jumping on him in his bed. The room was already filled with smoke and be hastily grabbed up his clothes and threw them out at side door and dressed himself outside. As he left the burning building he grabbed 6 pistol and 6redit of, to give the alarm.
 Assoon as he was partially dressed he went to the residence of Judge H. T. Andrews, which was in an sd- joining lou, the houses being sepa- rated only Q few feet from each other, and aroused the slumbering inmates. Although all of this was done in less space of time than it could be told, the fire had made such progress that, with the assistance of one or two neighbors who had by this time arrived, it was impossible for him to save anything except his trunk and one chair. In throwing his clothes out of the side door his gold watch, which was in his pants pocket, dropped out and was lost.
 As stated the fire department was on hand promptly and before the adjoing residence of Judge Andrews had commenced to burn, but when a stream of water was turned on there was scarcely enough to carry it over the fence, while the heat by this time had become so in- tense that the fremen could not get near the burning building. Several minutes elapsed before sufficient pressure could be obtained through the hose to do effective work, and in the meantime the Andrews resi- dence was . seetking mass of flames and the residence of Mir. Roberts on the north side of it, was also in dan ger of being consumed.
 In Judge Andrews residence were himself and wife and two children, Miss Hall, a school teacher, aud theIr servant, Celia Nyreen. They were awakened in ample time to dress and escape from the builnIng and by the time that the flames had communicated to the building a large crowd had assem- bled who as- sisted in the removal of the furni- ture to a place of safety.
 After seeing her children out and in safe hands Mrs. Andrews and
 Celia assisted the neighbors in re-
 moving the contents of the house and had made several trips into the
 burning building returning with va
 riOus articles.
 | Among the first to arrive on the
 scene and to assist in removing the | furniture was Dr. E. ". Butcher,
 whose residence is across the street from the scene of the fire. He was up stairs with R. E. Morrison, Ed. i Block, D. A. Burke and another man
 whose name was not learned when
 the flames suddenly and without any warning blocked the front egress from the building. Dr. Butcher, Mrs. Andrews and Celia tried to force their way out through the flames, but the latter two were over-
 come by the heat and smoke and perished where they stood, one on the stair way and the other in the hall at the foot of the stairs just in front of the door. Dr. Butcher managed to escape, but in doing so jumped from the stairs to the floor below, crushing the bones in his foot
 and was very seriously burned in bis ' hands and about his face and head, and had to be carried to his home, MT. Block, who was at the head of the stairs when the flames burst [ through into the hall, seeing the others struggling to get out by the
 front door, and the stairway being also blocked by folding bed, which had become fast between the railing | and wall of the house, rushed back
 up stairs and called to MT. Morrison
 and the other man up there. that
 they could not get out the front way
 and would have to seek some other