The Red Cloud chief., 1905-02-10
FIRE GETS IN ITS WORK.
Three Fires In Two Days the Record
for Ped Cloud This Neck.

suiCC uuCS III wv DAYS TUG kcCCTO
for Red Cloud This Week.
The volunteer fire department of
Red Cloud was given a chance this
week to show what it could do when
the town was threatened with destruc-
ton. and they demonstrated that they
were competent to cope with any ordi-
nary blaze.
The water works plant also perform
ell its share of the work we'll. consid-
ering the extremely cold weather we
have been experiencing. although the
standpipe was almost completely emp
tied and it was with the greatest diff
Guilty that the water pressure was kept
up to the required amount.
The two principal fires this week
seemed to have "a particular grudge
against the poker players.
Mondays Fire.
About IL o'clock Monday forenoon
fire broke out in the two story frame
building occupied by S +. Spokes-
fields feed store and Mrs. Spokesfield's
millinery store. The fire was discov-
cred by Joe Herburger, who gave the
alarm. The volunteer firemen re-
sponded promptly and in a very short
time had three streams of water play
ing on the burning building.
The fire started in the room occu.
pied by EnOch Barksdale and j. p.
Jackson Both had been up late the
night before, and Jackson had just
built a fire in the room, leaving a five
gallon can of coal oil sitting near the
stove The oil a became overheated
and exploded, and in their attempts to
e%Xtinguish the blaze Barksdale was
severely burned about the arms and
face.
The blaze quickly spread to the
space between the roof and the ceiling
and 1t was with the greatest difficulty
that the fire was confined to that part
of the building and finally %extinguish.
ed. Aside from the holes cut in the
roof and walls by the iremen the dam,
age to the building was slight. In the
room adjoining thai occupied by Jack
son and Barksdale we're stored f. M
Crone's household goods, which were
badly damaged by water. Mr.. and
Mrs Spokestield succeeded in getting
the greater part of their goods out OF
the building before the water was
turned on.
1t is said there was "a poker game
conducted in one of the rooms on the
second floor.
The building was owned by Charley
Potter and the loss was covered by in
surance,
Tuesdays Blaze.
About = o clock Tuesday Afternoon
the upper story of the frame building
occupied by 9. w. Bushee's saloor
was discovered to be on fire, and tn,
tiremen responded promptly to thu
alarm. The fire had gained consider
able Roadway and did much more dam
age than the fire on Monday. Thu
roof of the building was burned be
yond repair and the upper part of thu
building, M of the rooms of which
was devoted to the festive game o
poker, another used as a storage roof
by MI. Bushee and the front room
used for a storage room by H. w
Gulliford, was completely Quilted b!
the flames.
During the progress of the fire OH,
of the brick chimneys on the buildin,
fell, carrying with it a section of tn,
floor Most of the p%erishable good
had been removed and the fixtures O
the saloon were but slightly damage,
by the water.
The fire started from a defective flu
and spread between the ceiling an,
! the roof to the front room, where i
ate through the ceiling and, droppinI
|, to the floor, set it aiire.
} The building is owned by Joe Nc