The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-11-26
FLAMES in MILLINERY
Severe Loss by Fire on North Side
Saturday Night.

SNtuAA0y "A6a"
A stubborn fire resulting In several
thousand dollars damage occurred be-
tween ten and eleven O'Clock Satur-
day night and practically destroyed
the Fashion Millinery store, No. 119|
High avenue East, owned by Miss s.
B. Atkins. The building, which is
owned by Guy G. Woodip, of Chicago;
is not greatly damaged, but the stock
is ruined, for the greater part, by the
smoke and water.
The alarm was turned in about ten
o'clock by Miss Nina REMAND, a help
err in the shop. The fire must haveI
been burning long before discovered,
for it had big start when the fire.
company arrived. The department.
made ready response to the call. but
had greatest difficulty in getting toI
the seat of the trouble. Three lines OIL
hose were laid before the workers.
could reach the fire, which was locat-
ed in the inner room of the shop and
which was partitioned Off from both
front and rear and was behind closed
and barred doors. The fire seemed toI
have started in the third room from
the front, wherein surplus stock was
stored. The door to the room was
closely secured. Miss Atkins and her
helpers were working with customers
in the front of the room and their at
tention was first attracted by the
smell of smoke, but they paid no at
| tention until time for closing the
Estore, when they had occasion to go
to the rear of the building. -.... ..,. 4
| The fire company made attempt TO
get at the fire from the front and laid
line of hose through the front room
AS soon as they opened the door OF
the room in which the fire was bursting
great, clouds, of f., suffocatipg smoke
poured forth upon the firemen. Both
Chief McCracken and H0semafi Son
epdereggeP' wered partially. tOsesGome
by the fumes of the burning goods
and had to retreat. The fremen next
tried the rear of the building. They
could not get to the fire from this d.
| rection for the same reason they fall
ed to locate the trouble from the
front. A third line of hose was laid
over the roof of the single-story rear
| portion of the building, q hole was
chopped in the roof and by this means
| the men secured point from when
| 10 fight. By this time the fire had
big start and the flames were working
their way out of the skylight at the
| rear. When the department Located
the trouble, however they were not
long in conquering the blaze. me
fire was the hardest to handle he
men have had during the year. All
| of,them were made sick by the smoke
which seemed unusually strong on
| account of the nature OF the material
| burning. ,. o. a. ....
| Some damage resulted to adjoining
property on account of smoke and the
Offices of d. Fred Jarvis over the
shop are badly smoked. but not other
| wise hurt. A.n IN (
| The origin of the fire is not known
! There seemed to have been nothing
| in this room that could have caused
| q nre anu mo OuS hau bSSh - ~S
place for. hours preceding the blaze
The fire is the second loss of the kind
suffered by Miss Atkins. She was
burned out upon previous occasion
in the same location by fire that
started in a physicians Office on the
second floor and her loss was com
plete.
> Some of the goods in the front shop
will be salvage, but the greater part
: of the stock Is ruined. The loss Is
covered Cy insurance.
Another Blaze.
The fire department was summoned
to the residence of George Thompson
No. 41O Fourth avenue East, abou
six o'clock Saturday evening" Spark
from a chimney had setttsd 'iBileaYel
Ell ina gutter and vicious LITTLE blaz'
was started in the roof. The fire wa
all on the outside, however, and wa
= easily handled with trivial loss. :'
!, Three fire alarms were responde
o to Saturday by the fire department
|. making no less than eleven calls, 10
q the service thus far during the montf