The record-union., 1899-05-20
Sweeping Away a Large Portion Of the
Business Section.
Flames Break Out in a Hotel,
Spreading Rapidly, Until Scores
of Buildings Were Laid in
Ruins-A Great Number Of
Small Buildings, Together With
Their Contents, Being a Total
Loss.

JEROME May 19.-The third dis
astrous fire to visit Jerome within the
past eighteen months swept large
part of the business portion of this
town at 10 o'clock to-day. The fire had
its origin in the office of the Leland
Hotel, which was a twenty-room, two
story building. 1t spread rapidly until
thirty buildings had been destroyed
From the Leland Hotel the fire spread
north two squares destroying the Ryan
Hotel, Scott & Moore's livery stable
and ten dwellings,, stopping within ten
feet of the Reporter office. West of
the Leland, a business section, where
a large number of hotels restaurants
and saloons were located, the ST. Elmo,
Elite Arizona, Miners Exchange,
Fritz's Place, Fashion, Annex, Red
Light, Senate, Corners, Neff & Mattox.
all saloons, were destroyed within a
space of twenty-five minutes The es-
timated value of the destroyed build
ings is $4,000.
Twelve Chinese restaurants and at
least seventy-five small buildings in
what is known as the Mexican and
Chinese quarters were consumed.
The fire alarm was given by the big
whistle at the United Verde Copper
Company's smelter, and 800 men were
sent down the hill by this company to
fight the flames. The new four story
brick building belonging to the T. F.
Miller Company was saved with slight
damage. The Hotel Conner, a two
story brick, completed within the last
| fortnight, was completely Quilted. The
cost of this building was S37 900, insur-
ance S14. 800
DR.. E. T. Cody. whose office was in
! the Leland, was the first to hear the
cry of a child in the office of the hotel,
and FASTENED there and found a fire
started on bed. He attempted to
smother the flames with bedcIothing,
and was painfully burned about the
head and face, but no serious results
are expected. This is the only serious
accident known at this time.
Laskins' large clothing store was bad
ly damaged; insurance light.
Hoover & Cordiner, proprietors of the
Fashion saloon, lost their property at
the September fire, and We're replacing
it with what was considered to be a
fireproof building at a cost of ST, 800.
The walls of this building were badly
cracked, and its contents destroyed. No
insurance
The owner of the Leland, Mrs NJ
Smith, is of the opinion that the fire
was of incendiary origin, and arrests
will be made of suspected parties
The individual losers so far as known
were as follows: The New York store,
in the Kuchler brick building, made all
/ most a total loss from smoke and water.
The losses, estimated at $4,000, are
as follows: Tovrea & Clay, small loss;
Lyons & Knoblock, nominal; Scott
Bowling Alley, $500; c. M. Clark &
Son, notions. $500; Parke & Lewis,
BARRIERS, $500: Neff & Maddox, 1000:
Annex saloon, $1,000; Senate saloon,
$500; Hoover & Cordiner. $1,000 on
furniture and new building, $1,000 on
saloon; David Conner, $1,000; J. c.
Lanham. Elite saloon, stock and fix
lures, $1,000; Dora E. Clark building,
etc, $500; Hooker & Mcfarland. ST.
Elmo saloon, building, stock and fix
lures, $1,000; Jose Tamborino Ari-
IONA saloon. ST 800; Red Light saloon,
E Carroll, $500; Mcintyre & Company,
$500; Fritz Williams, $500; Allan John
son, blacksmith, 800; B. Quinjado,
S400; L. Reyes, $400; ]. c. Lanham,
building, S1,2G0; Fannie Ewing, furnit-
ure, $500; Jabez Charley, house and
furniture, $500; Jennie Bauters, house
and furniture, $500; John Grace sa-
loon. $1,500: B. Beck & Son, 81 900;
B. Boyd, furniture and stock, $1,000;
J. D. Shea, building, $500; j. Noriega,
building and furniture, $3.50: Charley
Hong, $1,000: Charles Matthews, bar
Der, 81, 900; George Winston, 800.
About twenty small dwellings and
contents were total loss. Also about
the same number in the Mexican
quarter Most of the losses are total.