Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-02-10
FIRE WORKS LOSS.
Three Buildings at the Corner of Main
and Fifth Streets Destroyed
Last Night.
Flames Originate in G%lineberg& Lovin's
Shop and Spread to Neighboring
Structures.
Total Loss $500 to $40, ooo-The Fire
Believed to Have Been of In
~cendiary Origin.
Another Visit of the Fire Fiend.
From Sundays Daily.]


Bismarck was again visited by Il dis.
astrous fire last night which will entail a
loss of property to the probable amount
of $4,000, and as a result of which sew.
eral old landmarks are in ashes. The
buildings burned were situated on the
corner of Main and Fifth street and
were occupied by Glincburg g. Lovin
contractors and builders, G. M. Mattson
restaurant, Sydney Cohen with a stock
of harness and repair shop, A. J.
Herbert as a butcher shop and T. j
Tully's tailoring establishment.
The fire was first discovered by G.. M
Mattson and is supposed to have been of
incendiary origin. Mr.. Mattson was
sitting near a window in the rear of his
restaurant when the fire burst through
a window in the rear of the building oc-
cupied by Glineburg q Lovin. There
was nobody in the carpenter shop nor in
the harness shop next door at the time,
the sole occupants of the block being
Mr.. Mattson and a few customers who
were in his place.
1t was about S:45 when the alarm was
sounded. The fire department respond
ed promptly and did excellent work
throughout the evening. Some of the
hydrants were frozen up and some time
was spent in experimenting with these,
but water was finally procured from the
hydrant near the hospital on Fifth
street and a good stream was soon play
ing on the flames. Only one nozzle
could be used be used for some time,
however, as the other hydrants could
not be made to work. The fire burned
slowly at first and the rear end of the
Glineburg & Lovin building burned
most rapidly.
For a time things looked decidedly
serious and the Custer house and John
Whites livery barn were in danger. The
tire department soon had the fire under
control, however, but were powerless to
do anything but prevent it's spreading to
the buildings adjoining. The building
occupied by A.. j. Herbert neal the Gus
ter house SOC caught and had to be
pulled down to keep the hotel from 60
ing.
The restaurant and harness shop went
next and these buildings burned quite
rapidly.
The stock in the Mattson restaurant,
Cohen's harness shop and Herbert's
butcher shop was for the most part re-
moved, but Glineburg & Lovin practi-
cally saved nothing except a few tools,
the greater part of their stock being
heavy and not easily removed.
Mr.. Glineberg in the rear end of
whose building the fire caught stated
that the fire was undoubtedly of incen-
diary origin, and says this is the second
time the building has caught in the last
three months.
In the rear of his workshop a part of
the building was used as a stable and a
valuable team of work horses belonging
to Thos. Fortune and several sets of har-
ness were burned. The horses had been
rented by L%iveryman White, and in the
excitement incident to removing the
horses from the other barn, the team
was overlooked.
1t was here the fire first started and
as there was considerable loose hay
straw and other combustible matter in
the place it had gained considerable
Roadway when Dissolved by MI. Mattson.
Tramps have sometimes removed
boards from the outside of the barn and
crawled in the building to sleep and a
short time ago Mr.. Glineburg had all the
holes boarded up and made secure but
he states that last night when he arrived
on the scene of the co~nflagration, two
boards on the outside had been removed
and lay on the ground zeal the building
thus giving color to the theory that the
fire was the result of incendiarism.
The loss to Glineburg e. Lovin is prob
ably the heaviest of all the tenants and
is estimated at $500, partially covered by
insurance. Sydney Cohen is probably
the next heaviest sufferer. Mr.. Coher
lost a part of his stock and all his tools
which were in the rear of his place and
could not be gotten out. He had Just
purchased Grambs Bros. stock of har