Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-17

DISASTROUS FIRE
Village Of Mosinee Suffers Severe Loss
on Tuesday Night Last.

on Tuesday Night Last.
This city was appealed to for aid
last Tuesday night, a telephone mes
sage from the little village of Mosi-
nee, stating fire was sweeping over
a section of the town, and that the
volunteer fremen of the village were
unable 70 cope with it. The message
was received at about 7:3O o'clock,
and the mayor at once ordered that
the old engine be sent down together
with hose and men. Owing to the
st. Paul road not being able to supply
locomotive at once, the equipment
did not reach Mosinee until about
nine O'Clock, otherwise the engine
would have been on the scene in half
an hour. Te6 Doonen, VIM. Ziebell,
Walter Ziebell, Mike Kriskey and
viii IsCerte accompanied the engine,
the latter going to fix up telephone,
so the village could communicate
with other towns, the telephone ex-
change having been burned out. They
took with them 1,1O0 feet of hose.
The run was made in twenty minutes.
When the Wausau firemen reached
there they found the villagers ex-
hausted from fighting fire. Mosinee
has fire engine similar to our old
one and this had been throwing water
steadily since the fire started, but
owing to high wind which was
blowing at the time little or no head
way could be made in staying it's
progress.
The fire was discovered at about
7:30 in the evening in shed back Of
the j. Hanowitz & Son store. The
shed was occupied by Ardin Paronto
as warehouse for the storage of
farm machinery. Mr.. Paronto had
been in the building shortly before
the fire was discovered and at that
time saw mo smoke. From appear
ances it is thought that the fire
started outside the building on The
north end, which gives rise to the
belief that it was of an incendiary
origin. The shed was filled with
machinery at the time and nothing
was saved. The flames began to
spread from one building to another
and within very short time half
dozen or more structures were being
consumed. The large twostory build
ing occupied by j. HanowitZ & Son as
general store was burned to the
ground. Very little merchandise was
saved.
The two story building occupied by
Thos. Zell as a saloon, next burned.
About $500 worth of stock was saved.
Next, DR.. w. N. Daniels barn and
house burned. Most of his house
hold goods were saved.
By this time the fire had good
start and the following buildings
were swept:
Two story building occupied by
C. S. Blair as drug store and post
Office and by Dentist Lusk as an
Office. Most of the goods and all of
the mail was saved.
Gus. Bachman, residence. All house
hold goods saved.
Geo. Tinnetti's house and barn.
Contents were saved.
The d. Doherty store, known as
the old Hawkeye House, two story
building. The upper floor was occu-
pied by Mr.. Doherty's family. As it
was thought this building was out of
the danger zone, no attempt was made
to save its contents until too late.
The wind had changed and the flames
bore down upon this building.
f. Demers' barn, containing some
farm machinery.
Dessert Lumber Co.'s old saw mill,
lately purchased by the Wausau Sui
phate Co. of the Wausau Street Rail-
road Co. The old mill contained ap-
paratus for supplying the village with
lighting; and of course those who
used electric lights must return to
John DIS product for their source of
illumination.
Louis Bernier, l.. Lamere and Mrs.
Chas. Blake and few others suffered
losses ranging from 5000 to $500.
The Marathon County Telephone
Co. had large pile of telephone poles
consumed.
Aug. Halberg, had lately purchased
the property occupied by c. S. Blair,
known as the old Gardner general
store. He intended to open a hard
ware store in the building soon. He
will rebuild. In fact, we learn, that
with possibly few exceptions most
of those burned out will rebuild, and
most of the new structures will be of
brick.
The Wausau firemen reached the
village after the fire had got into the
Hanowitz store, and it is believed
that their arrival saved the lower
portion of the village.
The fire caused great excitement in
the village. Every man, woman and
child turned out to fight the flames.
Many came into the village from the
surrounding country and lent hand.
The fire is asevere loss to the village,
but it will result in the town being
built up on more substantial scale.
The Mosinee Times gives the indi-
vidual losses as follows:
]. Hanowitz and son, store building
and contents, S35, 900, insured.
ID. G. Doherty. store building and