The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-08

Home Hotel and CIarksburq
Supply Building Are
Wholly Quilted.

Fire, OF unknown origin, DESTROYED
the Home Hotel building and the
cnrksburg Supply .company's buiid-
ing and their contents Thursday night
and adjoining buildings were dflm-
aged by smoke and water. the en-
tire loss being about $50, 900. The
property was about half insured. Low,
water pressure seriously handfcan-
ped the firemen who did valiant work
in lighting the flames and had there
been better water service they
would have been enabled TO get tho
fire under control before 80 much
damage was done. The Home Hotel
building was four story and base
ment brick structure and the sClarks-
burg Supply Company building was |,
brick structure of two stories and
basement
The fire had gained big headway
about 10 o'clock and for awhile II
was feared that the entire row OF
brick buildings on the street be-
tween Baltimore and Clark streets
would be consumed and perhaps the
frame buildings on the opposite
square. Solid brick walls prevented
the fire from spreading however. and
the blaze was confined within the two
buildings that were destroyed. These
were Quilted. nothing being left but
blnckened walls.
The estimated loss includes s25,-
900 Cor the Home Hotel building.
which was owned by w. S. Law;
about $4,000 for the Ciarksburg
Supply company's building and the
company's stock therein: about $4,000
for the hotel furnishings owned by w.
c. Rhodes, who conducted the Home
Hotel; about $500 on the A. s. &
w. S. Law meat market in the hotel
building. and from 5000 to $500 each
on the brick building owned by Mrs
Flora Martin, of Bridgeport, which
adjoins the supply company building;
the w. L. Cole building on the north
side Of the hotel building, occupied by
See Brothers, wholesale produce deal
ers: the w. w. Jameson building ad-
joining the Martin building and oc-
cupied by the Clarksburg Confection-
cry Company; and household goods
belonging to Patrick Rigney, who had
living apartments on the second floor
OF teh Martin building.
Mr.Law had $500. in surance on
his building; there was $4,000 ins,r-
ance on the Supply Company,s build
ing and $4,000 on the Clarksburg
Supply Company's stock. and the rest
of the property destroyed was only
partly insured, The total insurance
is about $4,000.
When the fire department arrived
on the scene the basement floor of the
Clarksburg Supply Companys build
ing was mass of flames and the fire
had exte1de to the second floor. The
firemen worked energetically and per-
sistently and by effective distribution
Of the water played on the flames pre-
vented the fire from spreading to the
Martin building. but such Roadway
had been gained that 1t was impossi-
BILE to save the Home Hotel building.
Considerable stock and household
goods We're taken from the buildings
that were burned but they were dam
age dby water and smoke and by
throwing from upper floors. Stock
and household goods were also taken
from buildings adjoining.
The Clarksburg Supply Company
was operated by Mrs. Ashby Monroe,
Who was recently arlicted by the
mental arrangement of her husband
who is now fn-the Weston asylum
and this. together with the loss of
her property. has ELECTED general sym
pathy for her.
The city water works system was
shut off Thursday afternoon and eve.
ming in order to make connection of
mains at the corner of South Chest
mn. and West Main streets and this.
with the scarcity of water supply
resulting from the recent drouth, low
cred the supply in the reservoir tanks
and made the pressure at the scene of
the fire very low. Streams from the
fire hose did not shoot much moro
than ten feet.