Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-20
DESTRUCTIVE
MORNING FIRE
PROPERTY VALUED AT $50 900
CONSUMED IN FLAMES
AND SMOKE.
REEDS LIVERY STABLE
AND THE TROY LAUNDRY.
Valuable Vehicles Burned-Buildings
d Total Loss-Three Horses Gre
mated-Started in Laundry.

One Of the most destructive fires that
has visited Butte for some time occurred
early this morning. The property de-
stroyed will aggregate in value about be-
tween $45, 600 and $50, 900 and was ituated
on lower Main street, between Mercury
and Silver streets. The losses are dis
ributed among half a dozen or more
people, the principal losers being ]. r.
Reed and the proprietors Of the Troy
Steam laundry. The loss to the Reed liv-
cry stable will amount to about $40, 600,
of which Mr.. Reeds proportion will be
about SIS, 900. The building occupied by
the stable was worth about $4,000 and
was owned by an Anaconda concern.
There was no insurance on the building
and Mr.. Reeds property was only par-
TALLY covered. In addition to this loss,
private rigs to the value of about 5000
were destroyed.
The building occupied by the Troy
Steam laundry was owned by John
Floyd. It was worth about 4 1000, is a
total loss and was not insured. The prin-
cipal owners of the Troy Steam laundry
are NJ. J. DeLano and Walter Trenerry.
Their loss comprises laundry machinery,
which is damaged beyond recovery, and
which was worth $10,0 900. The laundry
people carried no insurance. The laun-
dry Of hundreds of patrons was in the
building at the time and Mr.. Trenerry
estimates the loss In clothing at 81, 900.
The building occupied by S. ]. Cline as
a harness shop Is a total loss. 1t was
owned by Charles Kenyon of Deer Lodge
and was valued at about $4,000. Mr..
Cline.s harness stock was worth proba-
bly, 81. 900.
The Floyd block, adjoining the Kenyon
building. was badly damaged and Mr..
Floyd estimates his loss on this struct-
ure at $1,000. The building was occupied
by the Salvation Army, and the damage
to the army people will amount to IS, 900.
All the horses in the Reed barn, with
the exception of three, were saved. Two
OF these animals were owned by Mr..
Reed and one by the Symons Dry Goods
company. Nearly all the vehicles in the
barn were new, including a number of
fashionable purchases recently made.
The only property of this kind saved
We're half a dozen old hacks hat were
doing night duty, and two hearses.
The fire is supposed to have originated
in the boiler room Of the laundry, but the
immediate cause of its origin is a matter
of conjecture. The fire in the laundry
was discovered by employees of the livery
stable and an alarm was at once sent in.
1t had evidently been burning for some
time before 1t was discovered and in the
few minute between the time of the dis
covery n the arrival Of the fire de-
partment had spread to the surrounding
buildings and was entirely beyond con-
troll. In the meantime a large crowd had
collected and the workers were endeav-
oring to save the horses, and succeeded
In getting all the animals out except
three. These horses were in some box
stalls, Immediately in the rear of the Of
flee, and were SO hedged in by the flames
that 1t was impossible to get to them.
The following vehicles, most of them
new, and which were owned by boarders.
were destroyed:
Reynolds & Mcdowell, Bell Telephone
company, DR.. Johnson, Watts
Eschle & Co., DIR. Hansen, Pat Mullins.
National Undertaking mpa Inter
Mountain, Case, Gravelle & Irwin COM
pany, DR.. Campbell, DIR. McCrimmon.
oymons Dry Goods company, DIR. Mac
Nevin, Ed DAILY, Unique Tailoring COM
pany, DR.. Weyerhorst, Cobban & Co.. r..
L. Whitmore. G. o. Mcfarland. DR.
thompson, DR.. Stevens and Lee Mantle.
There were several narrow escapes.
Paul johnson was asleep in a room over
the harness shop, and when awakened
by Harry AshWorth, Mr.. Reeds mama
ger, was unconscious of his danger A
few minut after he left the building
the walls fell in. Bernard Shafer. a 10
year-old boy. was aiken Out of one of
the burning buildings by James Noonan.
The boy was sleeping sweetly in a bed
that was on fire. Fred Blair, a volun-
teer fireman, was knocked down by COM
ing in contact with an electric wire from
Which the insulation had been burned.
He received a severe shock, but fortu-
nately escaped injury.