Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1907-05-31
THE FIRE FIEND'S AWFUL WORK
LAST MONDAY MORNING
Over $4,000 Worth of Property Was
Destroyed, One Life Lost and One
Half Business Houses on West
Railroad Street Destroyed

Again the fire fend has visited our
little town and besides the loss of
property amounting to about $780,
900, one life was sacrificed. Three
fires in the last three weeks is a hard
tale to tell, but thus it has been. 1t
may be case of the railroad mans
fatal three. If so it is to be hoped
that the fire of last Sunday is the
last and that now the chain is broken
and we will have time of quiet and
freedom from further confagation.
1t is conseratively estimated that
Sundays fire caused a loss of about
$4,000, as follows:
J. NJ. Hunter, Club saloon,
building, fixtures and stock, $4,000
Hendricksen & McGinty, Dia-
mond Saloon, building, fix
lures and stock. .............. 5000
W. R. Harris, Clean Lunch
COuslIc' .......'.. ............... COO
Hansen & Lent, Harness, stock
etc.. ......... ........ =. $500
Gottschalk Bros, Senate Sa-
loon, stock etc ............. 5000
j. I. Marker, Stationary, to-
baccOs, etc......... ........... 1000
Mrs. Mary Torrey. Buildings,
personal property.......... $4,000
Eb Torrey, Cottage and house
hold goods. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $500
Mrs. Nellie Torrey, furniture
and clothing ng................ 60C
The above, with the loss to individ-
uals of clothing and other personal
effects, will easily bring the total to
| fifty thousand dollars. The heaviest
looser was Mrs. Mary .Torrey, to
whom belonged the entire street
frontage. and the buildings thereon
from the harness shop down to where
the fire was stopped. The Jas Hunt.
er building and the Diamond build.
ings belonged to- other parties, Mrs
Torrey leasing them the ground
There was also some loss to adjoining
property, especially Preston's Stock
and from the moving out of fixtures
and furniture.
A HUMAN LIFE LOST.
But saddest of all was the loss OF
one human life and the narrow es.
cape of others. John Weiss, dish
washer at the Owl Lun:h Counter,
had been put to bed in one of the
Senate rooms at about eleven o'clock
in a drunken condition. The fire
overcame him before he awakened to
get away, or anyone got to his rescue
and he was horribly burned, naught
but the trunk of the body remaining.
The arms limbs and head were con-
sumed in the fire.
HOW THE FIRE STARTED.
Mrs. Nellie Torrey, who with her
sister, Mrs. Belle Moss, was keeping
the lodging house, was the first to
discover the fire. With face and
hands blistered from burns she told
the TRIBUNE man of her narrow es-
cape. AT 1l:30 Sunday night she
had gone to bed, but had been kept
awake by the restlessness of sick
child. At 80 SHE was awakened
by presentment Of some great dis
aster and got up and started out into
the hall for a drink of water.
As she opened the door of ner room
wall of fire met her gaze ano the
flames leaped into her face. She
thought first of her two little girls
and getting them to place of safety.
And, though she had not been able to
walk without crutches for months, on
account of having run needle into
her foot, she rushed back into her
room, took the Oldest girl by the
hand and almost had to drag her
through the burning hall and down