The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-08-15
FIRE AT ELKO.
A $4,000 Blaze Visits the North
Side of Town.

Side of Town.
A fire was discovered in Jacobs
clothing store at Elko last Saturday
night, shortly after 9 o'clock. The ORR
gin Of the fire is unknown but is at.
tributed to some sort of an explosion.
With the first alarm Joseph Taber
fastened to his drug store and. after
arousing Mrs. Taber and her little son,
who had retired, he seized some chem
ical fire extinguishers and ran to ia
cobs' store, entering by the rear door.
Mr. Taber was working on the fire. and
possibly would have gotten it under con-
troll. when the front door was broken
open and the draft gave the blaze new
life. The fire then spread rapidly and
o o the drug store, DR.. McDowell's
office. the telegraph and the telephone
offices were one mass of fire.
A large crowd Of willing workers
quickly gathered, but they found them
selves without hose or other means OF
fighting the fire. Hose was obtained
from the w. T. Smith Company and
the fire house, the couplings. however,
would not ft the fire plugs and much
valuable time was lost before the difa-
Guilty was overcome. Meantime Q buck
ct brigade was organized and q gallant
fight made to prevent the fire from
spreading further.
When the fire was at its height and it
was thought the whole block on the
north side Of the street would go. there
was a scramble to get everything nova
BILE into the street. The well-directed
efforts of the hook and ladder boys, the
hose men and the bucket brigade kept
the flames confined to the above.men.
toned buildings. The losses estimated
for the Independent are as follows:
Elko Drug Company. building and
stock, / 5000 ; insurance, $1,000.
Elko Telephone Company, $500; no
Western Union Telegraph Company,
no
George Bruce, damage to grocery
stock by smoke, $3.50; covered by insuc-
ance.
Wintermantel Jewelry Company dam
age by heat, smoke, breakage and water,
5000; covered by insurance.
s. Jacobs. stock and tools, 5000; in
surance, %, 1850.
DR.. Mcdowell, books and medicines;
$500.
Henderson Banking Company, build
81, $50; insurance, s700.
James Bran, damage to buildings,
$500; covered by insurance.
Estate of ]. 3. Mayhugh, damage to
building; $500.
Wells, Fargo Express Company, $500;
insurance.
The damage to other property will
reach in the neigborhood of $500.
All the parties burned out, except Mr.
Jacobs, have secured other quarters and
resumed business.
Phil Foster, who went into the drug
to help Mr.. Tabor, found himself
cut off from escape from the front door,
and did not know the way out by the
back door. He CROPPED around in the
burning room and finally found the door
to the express Office, which
be kicked in. In the express Office,
Mr.. Foster found Paul Schulze over
come by smoke and dragged him out.
The young man had also gone into the
building to help Mr.. Taber. Mr.. Foster
was painfully but not seriously burned.
Mondays Independent says: "That
Elko is not a mass of smouldering ruins
to-day is due almost entirely to the alb
sence of any wind during the fire of
Saturday night. Had the wind blown
as it does sometimes the greater part Of
the north side of the track would be in
ashes. Elko is about the luckiest town
earth"