The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-18
WILL Be. NO DELAY
Sash and Door Company
Filled Orders Yesterday.
NOTHING YET KNOWN
As to the Origin of the Fire
Books Were Saved.

The origin Of the fire at the United
Sash & Door company yesterday morning
cannot be accounted for except that it
was incendary. The building Tas COW
cred and sided with corrugated iron and
there was nothing in it to start fire
from heat. No engine had been near 1t
all evening, and if 1t had, there is very
little chance, owing to the iron siding, for
| a spark to catch. There has been no fire
in the building and no matches or ignit-
ing material is kept there. Men were
working in the place all day and any
indication Of heat sufficient to start a
fire would have been noticed.
The incendiary theory looks improbable
too, when it Is considered that the fire
started In the second story. Nobody
could get UP there and the two colored
men who first saw the blaze and gave
the alarm say that when their attention
was first drawn to the burning, 1t was on
the inside. The only way entrance to the
inside could have been obtained would
have been by breaking window in the
second story, yet there were no evidences
Mum, Mr.. Clark and Mr.. Tull arrived at
the place. Nobody can surmise any OBJ
ject an incindiary could have in setting
fire to the building, as there is nothing to
pillage the place for and nothing that
could be carried away. And yet there is
apparently now no other way of account
ing for the fire.
A big stream ofwater played constantly
on the safe and its contents are probably
uninjured. The total insurance amounts,
it is estimated, to about 20 600 or about
half the value of the material destroyed.
Nothing of the stock was saved. The
long rows Of oil barrels, tar and paint,
the stacks Of dry Tine doors, windows
and sashes, made the heat so intense
that when it got startetd, every part of
the building seemed to catch and break
out spontaneously. Everything to the
very ground burned. It was midnight
when the fire was finst noticed and not
withstandiug the fact that three heavy
streams of water played on the fire con-
stantly, 1t burned until daylight this
morning. The statement that the book
accounts were destroyed, although given
the Eagle by a man purporting to be en-
ployed in the place, was erroneous. The
accounts with all the insurance policies
and other valuable papers, are in the safe
and intact.
Mr.. Mum, the manager, says there will
be practically no delay in filling orders.
A carload of goods were received this
morning, and a telegram yesterday stated
that plenty OF other doors, sashes ETC.,
had already been shipped. The Midland
passenger and freight depot have been
secured for warerooms and several orders
were shipped out yesterday. The COM
pany has a stock Of paints and like ma
tetrial in Oklahoma City, from which all
southern trade will be supplied, while
orders from the country further north
will be supplied from Lincoln, Nebraska
There are two other warehouses here
as large as the one burned and nearly
everything in the sash and door business
outside Of paints, can be supplied from
thees, so that there viii be no delay
worth the mention.