Arizona republican., 1910-08-20
EARLY MORNING BLAZE DESTROYS WAREHOUSE LOSS OF $11,00o IS ENTAlLED
 WHEN FLAMES CONSUME
 BUILDING AND CONTENTS.
Bremen Work Bravely and Save Ad joining Property Which Was
 Menaced.

Fire, which had progressed to de- gree rendering it practically beyond control when discovered early yester- day morning completely destroyed the ware house and and storage rooms owned by tue O'Malley Lumber com pany and leased by the Phoenix Con struction X Supply company at Fourth avenue and Jackson street. Four hundred tons of baled hay, stored in the building, will be a total loss, while household furniture owned by F.. r. Putney, an employe of the company now living at Ray, was so badly dam aged as to render it practically useless, and a large stock of agricultural inn plements owned by the Ceilings Vehicle company and consisting of grain drills and sugar beet seeders, were badly scOrched.
 The building was a ones story brick structure, covering, a plot of ground 150X137 feet and is said to have cost about s6.OGO to erect. It was partly insured. of the 400 tons of hay de- stroyed 11S tons belonged to the Phoe- nix Construction & Supply company, partly insured; 100 tons belonged to F.. F.. Pascoe, uninsured; M. J. List, abou. 90 tons insured: George Hahn, 100 tons, insured, and the balance divided among two or three ranchmen whose names could not be learned. The loss upon the contents of the building is estimated in round numbers at $5,000.
 On Thursday Mexican laborers had f, ,rla of agricultural implements consigned to the Ceilings Vehicle company and had the work more than half completed when it came quitting time. The Col lings company had seen to it that the goods was promptly insured, so that whatever loss was sustained will prob ably be fully covered.
 Early yesterday morning, men going to their work observed smoke issuing from the front of the building and tele- phoned the fire department, stating they believed q fire must be in pro gress. The hose wagon was sent to the scene and when firemen broke open the doors, the flames burst out and showed the entire interior to be seething furnace. An alarm was promptly turned in, but not bcfore-two streams were being played upon the burning hay.
 It was quickly seen that it was use less to attempt to save the building, but an effort was made to keep the flames confined to the side where the hay was stored. Water was played upon the agricultural implements with the result that the greatest damage to these will be the scorched wood work
 Directly to the east and coming up within two or three feet of the burn ing building the O'Malley Lumber company has large amount of lumber piled and it was feared the fire would spread to these piles. Bremen quick ly erected a series of braces against the east wall, which prevented that part of the burning building from fall ing and throwing a host of flaming brands among the lumber.
 The fire also threatened to communi- cate to some cars of the Santa Fe standing upon a track at the south end of the building, but these were finally pulled out of the danger zone.
 While the fire was at it's height, c. Nf- Di oNh anu A'AON IT, Ahp 1iCNA CTS and members of the volunteer fire department, were stationed at the front of the building playing q stream upon the outpouring flames. With hardly a seconds warning the big walls began to fall outward and but for their promptness in scrambling out of dan ger they would have been buried in the mass of falling bricks.
 The fire continued to burn through out practically all of yesterday, and last evening great clouds of smoke were still rising from the smouldering ruins. Special firemen were detailed with streams of hose to remain on duty all night pouring water into the pile of hay and other debris.
 The property destroyed formerly be- longed to the H. P. DeMund Lumber & Construction company, but was pur- chased about January l by the O'Mal- ley company. The Phoenix Construc- ton & Supply company occupied it as a work shep and a plant for the mak- ing of cement blocks, the 50foot building just west of the burned struc- ture. This building was saved by good work upon the part of the firemen. The Phoenix Construction x Supply company is comprised of U. R. Christ man, Elmer Christman, F. B. Zachary and William Brown of Los Angeles.
 No explanation of the origin of the fire is offered other than that it is be- lieved that the men engaged in the unloading of the car of agricultural implements on Thursday must have been smoking and allowed sparks to fall into inflamable material. which smouldered all night before bursting