Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-06
GOODWIN HOME IS
RAzED BY FLAMES
Narrow Escape of
Woman From
Suffocation.
LARGE CROWD TURNS OUT
Good Work Of Department
Saves Adjoining Property
From Burning.

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one-half story frame house occupied
by Mrs. r. A. Goodwin at 1O2 College
i. Street, at o'clock this morning,
caused panic among residents in the
neighborhood and but for the energetic
work Of the fire department would
have destroyed several houses in the
vicinity.
Mrs. T. A. Goodwin was awakened
by severe coughing caused by the
smoke which was pouring into the
room in which she slept. "The flames
were then on both floors of the house.
Mrs. Goodwin, was almost overcome
with smoke but succeeded In making
her way to the street where she found
shelter with neighbors.
Large Loss.
| The loss on the building was estl.
mated by Frank Owen, chief Of the
fire department at $l,500. Mrs. Good
win says her loss on household goods
Is between two and three thousand dol
lars. She was unable to save any
thing but basket full of silverware
and china. Sixty.fve dollars which
she had collected the previous day,
were burned
The fire also damaged the residence
occupied by j. V. Conway, proprietor
| OF the Normandie Hotel. In moving
his furniture into the street and from
damage by water Mr.. Conway sus-
tained loss which he estimates at
5000.
| Mrs. Conway discovered the fire at
about the time Mrs. Goodwin was
awakened by smoke. She awoke her
Husband who ran into the street AMI
lgave the alarm. Charles J. Parsons.
a clerk in the postofiice, ran to the
fire station and rang the fire bell vig-
orously, awakening the firemen who
Responded promptly. The fire, howev-
Ter, had gained such headway by the
time the apparatus had reached the
scene that the men devoted their ef-
forts to preventing the spreading Of
the flames.
! properly Ihreateheo'
Despite their efforts the adjoining
house, occupied by Mr.. Conway, be-
gan to smoke. The paint was blistered
on one side and the building and the
window glass was broken. 1t was nec-
essary to play stream Of water con-
stantly upon this building to save 1t.
When 1t appeared as though, his home
would be burned, Mr.. Conway and
wife, assisted by neighbors, moved the
household goods into the street. c.
wv. Astler and wife, J. B. Read, Mrs.
|C. r. Pierce, and Antonio Valdez, who
occupied the frame houses south OF
the burning building and adjoining the
home of Mr.. Conway, also took fright
and began taking their. household ef'
fects to place Of safety. The fire,
however, was checked
The buildings on this side of the
street form what Is known as I'M
provement Row and belong for the
most part to Robert G.. Gortner, who Is
now visiting his father at Goshen, In
diana. 1t is understood that the loss
on the buildings Is partly covered by
insurance. Mrs. Goodwin, however,
said she did not know whether her In
surance policies covering her house
hold effects had been allowed to lapse
or not.
About 300 citizens turned out from
warm beds to help fight the fire. This
morning only the front part of the
building is standing. 1t Is a wreck and
should be pulled down before 1t falls
Into the street.
Origin Of Fire.
Little Is known as to the origin of
the fire. Mrs. Goodwin said that there
was hole in the cook stove in a rear
room of the house through which a
coal of fire might have fallen into
waste paper. There were also electric
wires in the house and during the day
a fire had been burning in an open
crate. 1t is probable that the fire
started from the cook stove. however,
as tnlS morning, IL IL pldluiy eVloeuI
that the flames originated on the first
floor Of the house.
Mrs Goodwin had number Of lodg-
ers previous to the day preceding the
fire, when the last one left the city.
There was woman In the house who
|had been assisting Mrs. Goodwin with
her house work, but she escaped with.
out difficulty from the building and
suffered no loss.
Many citizens who were aroused by
the fire bell thought the fire was In
one of the business buildings near the
Plaza, so brightly did It burn. When
they discovered the location, they re-
turned to bed. This Is the first serious
If1re In Santa Ee for some months.