The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-02
EIGHT HORSES BURN
lire in Occidental Barn Last
Evening.
CAUSED BY ELECTRIC WIRE
Fire Department Did Extra
Fine Work

At ten minutes past nine last night
IRE broke out In the annex OF the Occi-
dental livery barn on North Main street
that destroyed the building and damaged
the main building considerably and burn
ed to death eight horses. The fire start
ed in the northwest corner Of the frame
building back Of the brick and is supDos-
Cd 10 have originated from an electric
wire The IRE started near the eround
In pile Of hay and Ike fash covered
the whole west side Of The building An
alarm was turned in and the department
turned eve streams Of water ca the dre
and within ten minutes of the time the
companies arrived at the fre 1t was ua-
der control Nothing bur quick work
could have savea the tuo-st0ry brick
building and the department is to be con-
nerled on their service.
There were about thirty horses f- -F-a
barn when the fire started and the en-
QloTes ard men who were near ran in and
c-r the halter ropes and took All but
eight out Some were sinzed and ali
were very nervous and hard T. manage
The eight left In the barn were burning
long before The men could get 70 them aad
the rescuers left them 0n-y when il was
almost certain death for any man 20 60
in after them There were about TWEEN
r. ausgies a1d carriages in the building
b-c twenty OF these we-e taken out before
much damage was done u them. some
had rhe tops and cushions burned of
au6 an wiI have TO be repainted.
Elmer Nicholson. an employee Of the
barn. had IS arm disIocated in TRYING 20
ger buggy CUT Of the building lie was
pulling one of the RIGS and some men
were pushing it and they we've goi1g as
hard as they could run when one wheel
struck a nose line and threw the young
man 10 the f0or
The building was owned bv 1Ir. Walter
Innes ana airs. Anna Brown ana was
leased by AR. Earnest Hail. He
was the owner Of the livery and had
charge Of The rooms on rhe second Ho0r
The building was valued at about SIX
thousand dollars Including tte frame an
mex There was four thousand dollars
Insurance on the building and 1Ir. Han
had seven hundred dollars insurance Oh
The horses and haggies. The frame part
VIII have to be entirely rebuilt. but the
walls Of the brick part are in drst-cIass
condition OWNS to the qlick w0cz OF the
IRE boys. The walls did NOT even get
very hot The damage % the lower floor
~ the brick VIII probably amount To
eight hundred dollars.
The 6re did not break through 20 the
upper floors but the rooms were flooded
with water Dir. George Young had SO
hidden nader the carpet in his room He
rushed through the sunocatilg smoke Up
the stairs and recovered his money.
The horses are valued at $3.50. The fam
ilies had no insurance on their goods and
this WIZ be q great hardship Oh them as
the greater number were poor people.
The work Of getting cut the horses was
done by Ed Lawson. Doe Baker and
Frank Clark. These men ran into the
flames and turned the horses loose Ii
seems as If the people In the front OF the
building were scared SO bad that they
could not help these mon or al the horses
would ae alive now. The men were d-iv-
- frou the work by the flames and they
said th1t if some one would have driven
The horses out after they Eot them as Tar
-he buggy shed all would have been
saved
One horse belonged % the Eames Gro
Gerry company. one o. O.. T. Edwards. one
10 Walter Heurion. one u s. IL Nelson.
one 70 Schroeder d Matthews The
owners ~ the others are zot known. bus
when the mea can for their naEs ibis
morning three men VIII have 20 buy some
new horses Among those taken our was
one owned tr John r.. Ett-er-
The dead horses are lying on the north
side of the buidlug. Some OF them are
burned To crisp. while others are nor
burned much except the hair Of an IS
sire-t off,
After the IRE ar. lines treated all the
fremea 10 cisars rs compliment Ter