Arizona republican., 1899-05-23

were tb3tt6ned, but DeLlOTe this could be done I. Laskin, the proprietor, had | to be forcFbly taken out of the store three times. He was nearly frantic. A report became circulated Lat the small child Of Jim Penrod had been burned to death and it's mother was severely injured endeavoring to res- cue it. The report was unfcunded.
 The new concrete building of Hoover & Cordiner of the Fashion sa- loon was completely gutted. Two carloads of new furri ture and fixtures had just been placed in it yesterday. Everything is lost, and the east wall is severely cracked by heat. Except ing this place and the Hotel Conner. everything attacked is a total loss. As far as known Conner was the only one who carried any insurance. He had s14,400, which fully covers his loss All the re5t will recover nothing and the loss has lbeen severe.
 4 list of the buildings destroyed is
 The Leland House,
 The Ryan House.
 Scott & Moore livery stable
 Five small dwellings.
 Clark's news stand.
 Nef MadduX'S saloon.
 The Annex saloon, VanAllen & Archambeau, proprietors.
 
 ScOtts bowling alley.
 The Elite saloon, L3nham Bros, p7oprietoTs.
 St. Elmo saloon, Mcfarland 6 Hooker, pT0pr;otors
 McIntyre's Red Light saloon.
 Charles (Japanese Charley) Shaw. restaurant and lodging house.
 Jennie Bauters, lodging house, tran sients.
 Twenty two-room dwellings in Mex ican town.
 Besides an innumeu'sibls number of shacizs of the oil-can order and dry goods box fashion of architecture. i which are better out elf the way
 The usual freak scenes were enacted | by excited people during the height Of the blaze. Some person in the up 1 per story Of Corners hotel at the risk i of life and limb carefully wrapped . 1 mattress around a lot of crockery ! ware, and then without tying the | bundle, threw it oua Of the window i Of course the bowls, pitchers, etc, l reached the ground while fgla mattress | was still in tnid-air. Another vicim | 1f dementia came runing through the i halls fighting smoke and flame with | an arm full of feather pillows While | everything was fiercest. water was |
 
 KnOblCck 6 Lyons broke in seven casks Of vinegar and filled buckets with the contents. The ascringent seemed to be quite effective as long as t lasted. For a time it looked as -h0uSh the. residence portion on the sast, and the company dwellings on he ''Hn ghts'' would go by the board. l md Cnly heroic measures saved them, Ogether with the resistance offered by he brick and concrete buildings that nave sprung up since the last fire.
 The cause Of the fire is mystery t undoubtedly started in the office of he Leland. This is on the authority If Dr. Cody. What could have started [ at such q point is beyond conjecture. III sorts of hints. some mere than lints, are going the rounds. The mat CT is now being investigated and it gill go hard with the guilty person if is uncovered.
 Sheriff Munds is in town. and he has aken charge of the preservation cf rder, being ably seconded by Con tables Frank Ferguson and Tom Mil er There has been a little disorder ru1ke ness, and considerable loud alking, but all noisy or CbstreperOus nGividuals are promptly jailed, which ,3s a good effect On persons anxious 0 emulate their example. One of he rooms in the basement of the Ma 1 onic Hall is being temporarily util- zed as a jail. The great burden of the loss will fall T the saloon men and sporting lasses. A great many unsightly and undesirable sh5cks have bser erased ( ,om the landscape. The ultimate ef- t get of the fire will beneficial The l ity coulcil can now cope with the ( re ordnance intelligently, and will 2 ee that hereafter no more wood T uilCings are erected within the city | mits In all probability this is the S Ist great fire which will aff1ict this amp The loss will approximate j0, 0,0GO.
 HERBERT ALLAIRE.