Arizona republican., 1909-06-26
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making a very painful though not
dangerous wound.
The most regrettable incident was
the accident through which Jesse
Eaton lost the sight of one eve The
stock of one of the saloons was being
moved when in some manner a bottle
Of beer was exploded and a piece of
flying glass cut his eye. Mr.. Eaton
Z is only a temporary resident of Mesa
F, City his home being in Des Moines,
/ Iowa. He has been employed in the
, construction of the big standpipe,
part of Mesa City's new waterworks
system and like nearly everybody else
in the town, responded to the fire
alarm. doing what he could to help in
! the removal of property that was en-
dangered by the fire.
The Stapley warehouse was valued
at $4,000 and was insured for $500.
! The contents it was reported belonged
, to A ]. Peters & Co. of Tempe and the
Phoenix Hay & Grain Co. and was
valued at $1,000. 1t was later estab-
lished by what is believed a reliable
authority that the Peters company was
the sole owner of the hay and that its
reported insured for about $500.
The adjoining building, was the
/ Golden Rule Livery stable. the build
| ing being owned by Ernest Crismon,
valued at $4,000 and insured for 500.
II was a brick structure 50X125 feet.
The stable was conducted by Lorin
Dana There were several horses in
the barn but all were removed without
injury.
The third and last structure to burn
was the CrismOn lodging and office
/ building. a two-story brick. The sec
ond floor was devoted to the purposes
I of a rooming house and nothing was
saved to speak of. The ground floor
was occupied by Mr.. Crismon as real
estate office. by the Elite cafe. con-
Quoted by Chinese and by a cleaning
and dyeing establishment conducted by
r. c. Plenty. a colored man. Plenty saw
ed all the clothing of his patrons and
most of his own effects so his loss was
not large The contents of the Crismon
office and the cafe were also removed
in the main. The building was valued
at $4,000 and it is understood carried
no insurance
! The next building is the blacksmith
shop constructed chiefly of iron and
served as a barrier to the progress of
the fire. 1t is also owned by CrismOn
but suffered no material injury. Mr..
I Crismon is by far the heaviest finan-
cial loser by the disaster.
Had the fire passed the blacksmith
shop it would have burned two smaller
! buildings and then assailed n second
hand store conducted by William Nc
Leod where it would have held high
carnival Fearing this eventuality an
effort wa smade to remove the stock
and considerable loss could not be
avoided in the haste of moving. the
same being true in a lesser degree of
several establishments along the row
on the north side of Main street. Most
of the stock and fixtures were rcmov-
ed from the saloons and people a con
siderable distance away were busy as
sembling their valuables against any
possible emergency, for it was a very
hot dry day and with the strong wind
there was no telling what might hap
pen. The street fortunately is very
wide one and the south side of ii was
not in great danger.
/ When the possible result of the fire
was appreciated the Tempe fire de-
partment was summoned by wire and
4 the regular GAS train brought the
| Tempe apparatus in a box car but by
! the time II arrived the fire was all
over except the hay i'm the warehouse
which will probably continue to burn
more or less for two or three days
The Tempe apparatus was manned by
Alma Jones. William WOolf. Mac
Browning. Pete Doll, Chris Sigala.
Jesus Macon. Ed Carr. and another
{ man whose name was not learned. and
the Mesa City people. desire to public
ly acknowledge their gratitude and APP
probation of the efforts of these young.
/ men. as well as the neigborly loaning
of the apparatus by Tempe. Though it
4 awaited nothing the motive is appre-
! ciated and had the fire not stopped at
/ the blacksmith shop the Tempe de-
! partment might have been the means
of doing a great deal of good.
During the fire the electric light
lines and the wires of the Consolidated
Telephone company, both long dis
! tarce and local. were put out of bust
| ness. Repairs began at once, the tele-
/ phone company constructed a detour
! line for the long distance and by 7:3O
: pm. had it again in condition and do
ing good work. only a few minutes
after the fire was stopped 1t was
also reproted that one of the linemen
was painfully cut on the lip during the
work but it was not learned whether
it was telephone or electric light en-