Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-02-14
ANOTHER BIG BLAZE.

at al early hour last night.
The alarm was sounded about 7;ij,
just at the hour when the streets were
filled with people and in few minutes
hundreds of spectators were on the
scene Besides the whistling of the
hooking bird, two locomotives and the
shop whistle took up the call, The
city fire department was soon on
| the ground and connected up two lines
of hose but the fire had reached a stage
where II was impossible for the de-
partmont to extinguish the ravaging
flames. The Santa Fe shops depart
ment rendered their services and soon
had n stream playing on the fire. and
the hiyarado hose was also used.
making four streams in all. But the
only good pressure was from the big
hose at the north end of the building.
The streams from the other hose were
not strong enough to break a window
The inflammable contents and the dry
timbers OF the building furnished
kind of food for the flames that the
four streams of water made little i'm
preston on.
The fire appears to have originated
In the upper part of the building at the
southern end officer Harry Cooper,
who was one of the first to see the
smoke curling out of the roof, made
a careful investigation and there was
no evidence of fire around the bottom
at all which would not substantiate
the firebug theories.
Manager George Arnot was seen by a
Citizen representative this morning,
and he stated that the insurance on
the stock amounted to $4,000, divided
as follows:
On the Stock--Royal Insurance com
pany, $4,000 Fire Association, $500;
St Paul Fire Insurance company. So
500. all represented by p. +. McCanna,
= local agent, and In the Liverpool. Lon
don q Globe Fire Insurance company,
81 500, represented by +. II. Kent,
making total of $4,000
, On the Building-In the Royal Insur.
ance company, 81 900.
The loss" said Mr.. Arnot," will run
between $4,000 and $4,000. We are
not able to give the exact figures as
, goods were being placed in and being
taken out every day. The loss may be
fully covered and again II may fall
short. But the loss will run some.
where near the figures have given. II
is my opinion that the building was
set on fire. There had been no fire in
the bnilding since the first of Decem.
Der, about nine weeks, and there had
| been no one in the warehouse for about
thirty hours. The night Waterman
, passed the building at o'clock. He
, tried the doors and everything seemed
to be all right. Several, who saw the
= fire from the viaduct before IL had
, gained any headway have stated that
1t looked to them as though il was
burning from underneath. As for the
: theory that it might have caught from
a spark from the switch engine. don Z
see how that could have been. as the
roof and sides were all iron. Then the
E motive might have been robbery. and
after securing the goods they wanted
they set the place on fire"
a considerable quantity of hay,
grain, flour, hides pelts, lard soap,
and groceries were stored in the build.
ing. The southern end of the ware.
: house contained large number of
sacks of wool. all OF which were de.
stroyed either by the fire or ruined by
the water
The fire seems to have originated in
the southern end of the building. but
there is a question as TO whether il
originated at the bottom or In the ton.
The loss will Inconvenience the firm
to the extent that they will have TO
draw from their stock OF supplies at
Las Vegas to furnish supplies for the
Lantry Bros, contractors at Belen.
They have a contract with this big con.
tracing firm 70 furnish supplies for
1890 men ana 3 900 teams for two
years, aggregating about $50 900 a
month BY reason OF this immense
contract they had larger stock in
the warehouse than usually, having in
the last few weeks added several car
loads of provisions.
The new warehouse being erected
east of the main Offices will be in readi.
ness in a few days to bee stocked with
new supplies so the frm will be able
to furnish all the goods contracted for
lsidor Armijo, probate clerk OF Dona
Ana county; A. j. Papen. editor of the
Rio Grandc Republican. Published at
Las Cruces; Walter NJ. Danburg. agent
and broker and Jose Gonzales, formed
a party OF prominent people of Las
Cruces. who were In the city between
trains this morning while en- route 10
the capital where they will lobby In
favor of bill to be introduced max.
ing an appropriation for a gymnasium
for the New Mexico college of agrl.
culture and mechanic arts.