Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-11-03
FIRE WIPES
OUT BARNS

Fire ragged with terrific fury in the
alley between Market and Front streets
and running from Mill street to Ferry
street Monday, causing a total lossEof
about So, 900 as near as can be estimat-
ed. Horses were with difficulty res
cued from blazing barns. One poor
animal, pony. that was in one OF
Foust Brothers stables. was so badly
burned that it had to be shot.
The barns burnedtan the losses, all
roughly estimated, are rs follows:
V. A. Lotiers barn, in the rear of
the Friendship engine house, totally
destroyed Loss about $500.
The two barns OF Foust Brothers,
who own the Germania Brewery. both
burned down with loss of $1,000
W. G. Shoop, two barns, practically
gone. Loss could not be stated. John
Keim and J. e. Moore used the struct-
uTes.
f. G. Angles barn. in the rear OF
the Litz restaurant, in which large
stock Of newspaper in big rolls was
kept, very badly damaged and loss
heavy. Also the baro in rear of Mr..
Angles residence, with interior re-
Gently remodeled, badly gutted al
though the horse and most of the car
riages were saved. Valuable harness
and robes were ruined and hay and
feed destroyed and this barn is com
plete loss. Mr.. Angle being out OF the
city, no idea of the loss could be got
ten last night.
Montour House livery, run by g. W.
Hoke, roof ablaze but no serious dam
age. All the rigs were run into Mill
street.
DR.. James Oglesby's barn. totally
destroyed with $500 loss.
H. NJ. Schoch's,A A. J. Stills and e..
NJ. Shoops barns all damaged, but not
to any great extent.
The fire was discovered a few min
utes after 10 O'Clock. W. d. Laumast-
er, Secretary OF the Y. 81. o. A., was
going up Ferry street when two young
ladies standing at the alley pointed to
the Foust barn and asked il i: wa {
afire. Mr.. Laumaster saw the flames
breaking through the doors of the low
er part of the structure. He saw a
light in the Friendship engine house
and called out an alarm of fire, to
which the fremen promptly respond
ed Then he ran into the alley where
the flames made it impossible to reach
the horses, which were kicking frantic
ally. Men finally got them all out in
safety from the several flaming struct-
ures, but the Foust pony was in terri
BILE condition and had to be shot. Harry
Quinn in trying to cut the strap that
held the pony nearly severed his thumb.
The whole fire department was call
ed out on a second alarm. 1t looked
for time as if the entire block might
go up in smoke. The Friendship at
first got on three streams before the
other firemen arrived and numerous
garden hose were in service. When
more streams came into use their com
bined effect told, but it was not until
| 10 80 O'Clock that the firemen left the
scene after having done heroic work
against great odds. The Continental
and Washington boys did good work
after getting into the yard OF the Angle
residence and playing their streams
from that point.
No one knows the origin OF the fire
II. B. FousU can not believe il started
in the Foust barn, for he states tina
between 8 and O'Clock the last triI
of the day was made to the barn, II
which was no light of any kind. H'
was at the home of his brother. O. W
Foust, Front street, who is i'll, wher
the fire bell rang. The sick man urget
him to go to see if every thing was al
right about the brewery and when h
hastened out he discovered the flame
among the barns. With Harry Quinn
and John zimmerman he worked en-
ergetically in rescuing horses. In do
ing similar work Walter Raver had hi
hair singed.
The fire occurred while the Hal
lowe en- celebrators were yet on tn
streets and the crowd that Rathere
consisted OF hundreds Of persons. Oom
ical attires were in strange contras
with the seriousness of the situation
for as the columes of flame rolled sky
ward many had grave fears for tn
whole neighborhood AS the fire al
peared on the roof of first one build
ing and then another it certainly look
ed AS if the tremen were engaged in
> hopeless task. They kept tireslessly
work, however, until they had over
! come the fury of the destructive elt
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