Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-12
.f|R[DJGS At DUBUQUE
iNcENDlARY STARTS BLAZE THAT
CAUSES TOTAL LOSS OF
100000.
STANDARD LUMBER COMPANY
LOSES HEAVILY BY FIRE
Following Loss, to Hotel Julien, Lumber
Yards, Box Factory and Other Build
inss Are Destroyed-Firemen Have
Hard Battle With FIames-suspect
Under Arrest.
pecial to Times-Republican.

1 special 10 II,
Dubuque, April 12.-Within a few
hours after the disastrous fire and
panic in the Julien Hotel, another and
more thrilling fire started in the lum-
Der yards Of the Standard Lumber
Company on Seventh street, last even
ing, and before controlled had de-
stroyed the lumber company's proper
/ ty, the mill of the Flick Box factory,
/ and several small buildings adjoining.
! One man is under arrest charged with
starting the fire in the lumber yards.
| The damage is estimated at $780,
600, and insurance at $4,000. It was
one of the hottest and one of the most
spectacular blazes Dubuque ever has
witnessed
Heroic Work Of Firemen.
! The firemen did heroic work but
even their labors must have been fruit
less had not the wind, when the flames
We're at their height, not suddenly
yeered from the west.to the north and
taken the Union Electric Company's
plant out of the path of devastation,
changing at the same time the direc-
ton so that the flames no longer were
forging toward the manufacturing por-
| ton of the city which was but short
distance away.
| AS it was the mammoth stack of the
power plant owing to the intense heat
was forced out of the plumb at least
| six feet and there was apprehension
during the time when the flames were
at their fullest fury that the huge
cylinder of Steel lined with friedrich,
would fall
Power Plant Saved.
| The burning lumber heaps We're
within a few feet Of the power plant
but the structure, as nearly fire proof
as it is possible to build it, withstood
the flames in splendid manner. In
fact the firemen found the interior of
the building an available place from
which to fight the lumber yard flames.
The windows all were broken by the
intense heat
The fierce wind that prevailed at the
time. bore burning AInbers half a mile
to the heart of the eity. Sparks and
flying pieces of burning wood dropped
on Main street and for time the en-
tire city seemed menaced.
Work Of Incendiary?
Anton Bauer was arrested in the
STANDARD LUMBER company NdTu OH
information of Telegraph Herald re-
porter. charged with having set fire to
a lumber pile in the Standard Lumber
ICompany's yard. II Ies..Mas positively
identified by Joe Jaeggi, a teamster for
the Standard Lumber Company the
man who discovered. the fire, and also
trolls clear view of the then burning
lumber pile. The fellow was also rec
ognized by John Premn, Waterman at
the tower as man whom he had or
dered out of the yards Sunday night
and who attempted to-quarrel with him
over being eyicteds
The evidence against Bauer seems
conclusive. Joe Jaeggi,. the teamster,
was driving thru the yards with load
of lumber when he saw smoke issuing
from between two of the lumber piles.
He stopped his team to investigate
and as he got down from his wagon
he came face TO face with Bauer who
stepped out from between the burning
piles. Bauer Immediately started away
on d keen run and Jaeggi made no at
tempt to follow. Mrs. Jaeggi. whose
discovery of the fire was simultaneous
with her husband also saw Bauer leave
from between the piles and watched
the man as he ran out to the street and
up to the high bridge where he turned
west and disa ppeared among the lunl-
Der piles.
Second Fire Disastrous.
The first call of the department. was
effective. An hour later another call
was made. This was the fire that did
100000 worth of damage. The belief
is persistent in view of the fact there
have been three disastrous fires in Du-
buuue within the last week, that there
is an organized band of tirebugs at
work.
Late in the afternoon q we'll adj
vanced blaze was found in the Farley
Loetscher plant, altho it was discov-
cred in time to prevent a conf1agra-
ton.