Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-12-13
FIRE DESTROYS TWO
DOUGLAS HOMES


DOUGLAS, Dec. Especial y
Fire completely destroyed the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Parr and a
| residence next to ii on the corner of
Sixteenth street and Z avenue, owned
by Mr.. Lalley and occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. w. S. Woods. Mr.. and Mrs.
Woods were fortunate in saving all of
their household goods, but nearly ey-
erything the Parr home was destroyed.
The loss is estimated at about $4,000,
which is said to have besn partially
covered by insurance.
The cause of the fire was a small
round oil heater in the front room
down stairs in the Parr home. The
rooms was occupied by c. w. Wise, q
car repair man in the local railroad
shops. He came home yesterday at
| noon to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Lucas, the wife of one of the men in
the SHOP, and after dressing left the
house with the lamp burning in his
room. 1t is not known exactly how
! the fire caught, but it is supposed that
the lamp exploded and set fire to the
carpet or caught fire to the window
curtain.
Mrs. Parr was in the rear of the
house, having just come in from out
OF doors, when she noticed the smoke
in the front room and found the room
in flames. The fire was quickly spread
ing to the other rooms in the hous
when Mrs. Parr gave the alarm.
Miss Maybry, who was asleep up
stairs, was almost suffocated with the
smoke when the folks downstairs final
" succeeded in awakening her, and
she barely had time to escape from
the building when the stairway burst
into flames.
The two story house was soon en-
veloped in flames, and the roof was
on FIRE and burning by the time the
fire department arrived. AS soon as
fire broke out on the roof the wind
took part in the work Of devastation
and famed the fire to the roof OF the
one-stoTy double house next door, on
the corner.
Mrs. Woods was alone in this house
with the little baby when the fire
broke out next door, but with the as
sistance which arrived with the alarm
of fire, succeeded in saving almost ev-
erything in the house.
The fire department went to work
on the Lalley house on the corner
They put two streams at work on the
house and sent back to the city hall
for the other hose cart, and in a few
minutes after the new hose came into
play the fire was practically placed
under control. The house was of the
bungalow type and when the large
center chimney gave way it crashed
down in the lower part of the house.
The laWeC nart offns house was pref
ty wei taken CARGO ny -+fe-f1re de-
partment and the real damage viii he
found to be much less than many ex-
pected from seeing the roof in flames.
The Parr house contained seventeen
rooms, many of them being railroad
men and shop men. Robert Arthur,
who roomed in the house, came up with
| the fire department and was able to
not only save most of his belongings
but TO help in rescuing some of the
furniture in the rest of the house. The
other men rooming in the house VINO
| lost practically everything are Messrs.
/ H. T. Todd, Harry Bennett mad L. A.
Wessen. Quite a considerable sum Of
money is said to have been lost or Is
still in the ashes, for Mrs. ParT had
| 5000 in two amounts hidden in differ
ent places in the house, and she was
unable to get ii when the fire broke
out. Those men occupying rooms in
the house also had various amounts
Of money in their rooms and being
absent during the fire lost it.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Parr will learn with deep regret of
| their serious loss. Mrs. Parr has been
keeping a rooming and boarding house
for the past two and half years and
during this time has been working
very hard to pay for their home and
the furniture, which they bought on
the monthly installment system.
The building was erected by Mar
garell more than five years ago. and
was one Of the first structures built
on Sixteenth street. Mr.. and Mrs.
Margarrell lived there up 70 the time
they sold the property to Mr.. and Mrs.
Parr..
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