The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-09-27
HOTEL AND CAFE BURNED
COIDSRORO HAS AN EARLY
MORNING F1RE-E1RE DEPAIl1-
MENT DOES HEROIC WORk.

bO1uSboIo, oSPN-
was visited this morning about tour
O'Clock with one of the biggest fres III
the city's history, excepting the mem
orable fire about twenty-five years
ago, when the whole town was nearly
destroyed, the fire originating from d
lighted cigarette thrown away by a
small boy. Parties coming into the
CITY this morning on the early trains
state that they could see the reflec-
ton of this mornings "cOnflagratlOn
many miles aWay from the city.
The fire was first discovered in the
Eagle Cafe" a Greek restaurant ad-
Joining the Waters Inn and near the
Terminal Hotel, at the west or wal
nut street, adjacent to the union pas
senger station, and the alarm was
turned in and promptly responded to
by the volunteer fire department, but
the nature of the building was such
that it burned rapidly and 50 con-
strained the flames as to intensity the
heat and add to the ~fiercenesS OF the
conflagration.
The Eagle Cafe was simply a frame
structure covered with sheet tin or
sheet roma veritable fire trap-and
when once on fire it was next to i'm
possible to save it. This was the gen
eral expression of passing opinion
when the structure was in course OF
erection, and such it proved when the
casualty befell this morning.
Next to the Eagle Cafe, and under
the same roof vas Henry Guess cafe
"a colored operated by
Henry Guess, the we'll known negro
barber, who did not know of his loss
nrfiJ no orriyn1 on tho CNnnn IN nnpn
up this morning, having slept sOundly
through it all at his home on East
Vine street. He lost all he had in the
building, in the way of cooking out
fit, furniture and supplies, with no
Insurance..
This property, the building, As above
Observation-Disclosures to Mr.. w. W.
Crawford, on which he had $4,000 in
surance which will probably cover
the physical loss. The Greeks running
the Eagle Cafe. had little or no in
Surance
AS the heat Of the flames. while de-
vouring this building. intensified, the
third story Of the Terminal Hotel took
fire, and SO intense was the hea from
the other building hat it called for
the greatest of heroism on the part
of our indOmitable volunteer fremen
and our well-poised chief of fire de
partment. Mr.. Horace E. King. to
brave the emergency ana struggle to
overcome the raging flames-and it
was a struggle and a battle that called
for strenuous endurance and the
married building as it stands today is
an eloquent witness to the mettle OF
our volunteer firemen in coping with
conflagrations.
The Terminal Hotel is a three-story
brick structure belonging to Mr.. L. N.
Waters, and was leased to Mr.. W. Kali
mar. a Greek gentleman, who had al
ready established for it a reputation
abreast of the best small hotels in the
State and was enjoying a fine business
and growing patronage. 1t was ele-
gantly furnished and superbly catered,
and the loss of business, therefore, to
Mr.. Kalmar. as Well as all the equip
ment and furniture, which belonged
to him, is very great, as he had only
$4,000 insurance. His loss will be at
least three times that much.
On the building, which is valued at
$1,000 for construction, Mr.. Water
has only $4,000, having allowed S.
900 to lapse last May on account OF
the high rate.
All the top floor of the building is
destroyed, and the entire interior is
badly wrecked, both by fire and water
so that it will probably have to be re
built.
THE MONSTER OF INIOUITTES.