The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-29
Fire on the Third Floor Over the
Jones' Hat Store Was Put Out
With Promptness on
Sunday.
FIVE ALARMS OF FIRE
Barn Back of the Beverine Residence
Was Burnt up and a Run Made
to Eighteenth and Des
Moines.

One of the best pieces of work ever
done by the fire department was per-
formed early Sunday morning when at
4:10 the night patrolman along the
business district of Main street turned
in an alarm from Fourth and Main
streets where stock of hats and other
mems and boys furnishings stored on
the third floor above the Jones Hat
Store and belonging to that business
house had caught fire in some I'M
known manner and were burning in
lively manner when the department
arrived.
When the reels arrived the door on
| the second floor above the establish
ment was broken open and the chemi-
cal hose and one line of larger hose
was laid up the stair case. A stream
from the chemical was turned on the
blaze which proved to be hot one.
The windows on the third floor
cracked with the intense heat of the
burning stock and it began to look as
though fire would result. A steady
! stream was kept playing on the blaze
from the chemical however and in
little over a half hours time the fire
was under control.
A large stock of hats and caps, in
Guiding stock of straw hats was de-
stroyed by the blaze and made good
| timber for the blaze which it is
thought originated in the rear of the
j third floor. No damage whatever was
adone to the several business offices be-
How and at both sides of the rooms in
which the fire was burning.
4 Business men who have adjoining
establishments consider the work done
by the fire department yesterday
tmorning excellent on account of the
fact that there was no damage done
whatever from water which Is the u.s.
ual result from a fire like the one on
Sunday morning. The 8. Seibert Cigar
store and the Frank Hebron Jewelry
company are on each side of the Jones
store and both gentlemen feel relieved
to think that there was no necessity
of using the larger hose to eXtinguish
the blaze
The loss was fully covered by in
surance. The exact loss of stock is
not known.
The men of the fire department have
laid aside their merchants for today
and are smoking perfectos the COM
plements of Frank Jones the halter,
his appreciation of the good services
rendered by the department on Sun
day morning.
Barn Burnt Up.
A shed in the rear of the Bevering
residence between Fulton and Frank
lin street on Eleventh caught fire
previous to the Jones fire, about 2
o'clock on Sunday morning and
several out houses was destroyed.
A number of chickens In an adjoin'
ing shed were destroyed by the fire.
Good work was done on the part of the
| department in keeping the blaze from
the E. j. Bevering residence which is
located at HOP Franklin. No in.
surance was carried on the place.
: A long run was made to the N Ham
J mer residence at 1908 Des Moines
. street at o'clock on Saturday even.
ling where fiue was burning out and
caused slight alarm on account of the
j fierceness with which the chimney
was burning. The f1ue resembled a
small crater and the stove pipe had to
| he taken down by the firemen before
, the f1ue had become cooled off The