The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-10-09
AlNlO ! I I OT''H|:ER| | /; R FIRE ] |. !. E
,Shanahan's lmple-
ment House Bad
>:& IL Burned.


ing one end Of the building and
:: damaging considerable amount Of
rimiiiiSiGllI imiiiiSiGllI1ne-. repairs and several car
riages. ~ ''-~'' =" '''''-"
Our citizens were rudely awak-
ened by the shrill hooking bird
whistle and lost no time in get
ting to the scene, where the south,
west corner of the building was
found ablaze on the outside.
The departments were on hand
with their usual alacrity and soon
had, what at first appeared would
be a more serious fire and oommun-
icate to other buildidg, under con-
troll.
The corner of the building especial
" the roof is almost entirely burned
away. The fire ran rapidly along
the ceiling of the second story, the
carriage room, ceiling was covered
with paper to protect car
riages from durt. The blaze was at
one time seen coming out of the
north end of the building but grad
ually extinguised. In the. carriage
room there were sixteen carriages
set up, all of them have the tops
destroyed; some completely, others
beyond repair. The vehicles are the
worst; part of them are probably
worthless as the wood work is badly
charred on some. One carriage in
the north end, farthest from the
hottest part of the fire had the
solder of the lamp melted; this will
give some idea of the intenstyo the
heat, the vehicle itself was not very
badly damaged. The loss will prob
ably reach five thousand dollars,
their being a large stock Of expen,, !;
jsive extras and repairs for various
machines. There was $1,000 insur-
ance on the building which is owned
by j. D. Humiston and was insured
with G. T. Tupper. Mr.. Humiston
will have the building repaired.
Mr.. Shanahan, had $4,000 insur-
ance with. Mr.. Parsons, $4,000 with
G. T. Tupper, $1,000 with Loren
Clark. A $4,000 policy had expired
last month which was not reissued
The origin Of the fire is unknown
unless it was by tightening. Some
who were up at this time state there
was q heavy electrical storm at thus
time. The chimney: had pieces
81 brick broken Of that looked like
it had been done recently. The
hottest part Of the fire appeared to
be in the room for repairs on the
second floor. -.
y. While Adolph Amondson, . fire.
man was on tho second floor with
the hose be fell through where it
had burnt the floor away, but, hung
on to the: hose, the strong pressure
Of water preventing him from falling
to the first floor and where he might
have been burned or injured. He
pulled himself out with the hose.
The chimney was tipped over for
fear 1t might fall and injure some
one. - ~., .
4 Mr.. Shanahan highly appreciates
the efficient service rendered by the
department and states firmly that
they done all that could be done,
expected or desired. Mr.. Humiston
was present holding the hose on the
fire and says the department done
splendid work.
There was large crowd Of spec
tators from all parts Of the town.
John Wood Jr., Russell Moberly
and Officer Roshon were by this
building not more than fifteen min
utes before the fire was discovered
and saw no signs Of fire.
"A small fire occurred in this build
ing q year ago last spring. r. r
This is the second fire in a week
and it is an old saying that there
will occur three before the spell is