New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-07-12
Hello! Hello!
No Answer to be Heard From our Local Tele-
phone Exchange.

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store Wednesday night, shortly after 10
o'clock and as a consequence the tele-
phone service is entirely demoralized..
Itmight take two weeks to restore cons
nections, but the management would
not vouch for the efficiency of the sys-
TEN at such a short notice.
During the severe thundersto1ms of
last Wednesday night several members
Of the local fire brigade were assembled
at headquarters surmising that their
services might be called upon. This an
ticipation proved to be fully justified
when an alarm was sounded at the above.
stated time. The hose wagon was on
the way to the Saverien building, in fact
1t was on the scene of the coniagration
before the whistle from the waterworks
was heard. The timely arrival OF the
department, complete in number IN a
very few minutes, prevented serious
contiagration, perhaps the loss of lives.
The electric flash went through the
chimney Of the Saverien building, to-
tally destroying the wires, switchboards
and other paraphernalia belonging to a
telephone exchange Of the first or
der. The total loss to, the New Ulm Tel
ephone Co. is estimated at about $4,000
with an insurance of only $7OO. This
would Of course not include tue damage
done to the exchange regarding their IN
terruption Of business. ~.-~
The furniture store OF Saverien is bad
ly damaged. A great amount of carpets
and wall paper, stored in that building
perhaps the greatest assortment of this
kind of goods in this part of the state,
was damaged, practically destroyed, by
fire, water or smoke. The least tinge of
water on the corners of the valuable
wall paper renders the latter valueless,
and the carpets are not trst-class any
more after undergoing deluge like that
of last Wednesday,. Mr.. Saverien is not
IN position just now to state the exact
damage done to his stock, but is esti
mating it at some $4,000. The loss is
fully covered by insurance in various
agencies of this city, representing east
eIn concerns, and it might be added
here, that the damage done to the build
| ing proper, amounting to about $500 is
also covered by insurance. The total
loss caused by this fire will aggregate to
$4,000.
Some casualties were caused by the cleo
trio stroke. Chas. Hornburg Jr. was per-
haps the first one to notice the fire in the
Saverien building. In a moment he was
up from his yirtuous couch and hasten.
ing to the scene. Learning that the op-
perator Ferd. Bleck was inside of tt g
building. and not having any other
means of entrance Mr.. Hornburg broke
the door window with his foot, sustain
ing cut on the ankle. Not minding
the injury he ran upstairs in search of
Bleck and did not retire until he had
found that Bleck was safe. Mr.. Horn
burg is now sporting walking cane, as
reward for his humanitarian attempt.
Jerry Reardon, member of the fire
department lost his balance. while lean,
| ing over the banister of the second floor
stairs he was precip1tated to the ground
floor but escaped serious injury. ].
Shortly after this alarm another alarm
was turned in from box 33, located on
I'd str. Chief Engel at once dispatched
hose wagon to that locality, but it
proved to be false alarm. Another fire
at that time might havs seriously Grip
pied the efficiency of the department at
the SaveIien fire. Considering all the
circumstances the city may congratulate
itself upon the escape from veritable
holocaust, the business center of the city
was threatened. This calamity was avert
ed by the prompt and effective service
of our fire department, and in conclusion
we will and we must say it is A Mol. It
can't be beat.
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