Arizona republican., 1911-08-07

Phoenix has been scorched again
 the extent of considerably more thal s1O0.OOO. The Ellingson building at tn corner of Washington street and Cactu Way was thoroughly gutted yesterda, morning The ruin of the hardwar stock of Talbot & Hubbard was com plete That of the stock and fixture of the Donofrio- -Zunkel company was little less so. Five lodges were render ed homeless. pr. Dameron was lief without office or equipment and Dr Shackelford, a dentist, barely saved hi belongings. The general loss is fairl. we'll covered by insurance though som of the losers were not protected at all
 The fire was discovered about O. clock, bursting from the kitchen of thu Donofrio-Z Zunkel company. and it il supposed to have originated in thu basement Some of the employees O the company had already arrived anC when the flames burst into the kitch. en they tried to fan them out.
 The alarm was turned in but at frs not many of the volunteers responded Most of them were yet in bed. The paid members were on hand with promptitude and when they saw tho magnitude of the blaze and the possi- bilities, the alarming "51"~brought out the volunteers in great numbers and the fight was on.
 By this time the fire had made con siderable headway in the Talbot & Hubbard store and it did not appear ;@ h,,s1 ing; beyond in the direction of the breeze was the new National Bank of Arizona building. But the department worked with it's usual effectiveness and prevented a spread of the flames to the adjoining buildings though the breeze from the east carried the heavy black smoke so rapidly that as far west as Fourth avenue it was impossible to see across the street Passengers on the incoming train from the south saw the smoke from Tempe and they be- lieved that Phoenix was burning up.
 Several firemen were injured by a burst of flame. It was thought at first that an explosion of oil had occurred in the rear of the Talbot &s Hubbard basement but it was later found that the flame was caused by the falling of the roof of the building. The flames on one side were forced to the Wash ington street front and on the other side, across the alley and half way through the unfinished annex of the Commercial hotel
 It was in the alley that the firemen suffered. Those more painfully burned were Dan Massie, Jesus MelendreZ. and -Tackett. The last and James Trout man were cut by flying or falling glass. A piece of glass was forced through Tackett's lower lip.
 Another sufferer, but she was an un- official one upon whom no sympathy was expended was a woman who ap- peared at the fire in a night gown fray and made a good target for the shooting flame which burned away a rear breadth of her nightgown.
 She went to the police station as soon as she had partly recovered from her fright to lodge a complaint against the inefficierlcy of the firemen who, in her opinion. should have confined the flames within the building. Officer John Perrin inquired if she had any other interest in the fire than that Of a casual onlooker. She replied that she had not but as an American citizen she had a right to stand around and look at a fire without being cremated. She was advised to keep out of the way of fighting firemen in the future
 Other noncombatants wh were kiss ed by the flames were Jose Flores, Mrs Mae Thomson, Mrs Harrison and William Boyd, employees of the Sani- tary Cafeteria, who were not standing in the alley but were in a hallway when the flame swept by All of them were painfully burned and Flores was so badly scorched that it will be week before he will be able to attend to his duties. A MT. Cheney was also badly burned.
 But there was an explosion in the front of the building of small can of smokeless powder but it did no dam age beyond driving the firemen on that side across the street.
 The fire had hardly been extinguish- ed before the work of salvage was be- gun. The cutlery and such other goods as would be ruined or tarnished by water were taken out, immersed in oil. wiped dry and removed to places of safety.
 On the Donofrio- -Zunkel side the fire had been less furious. The fixtures in the front part of the store. includ- ing the great soda fountain, seemed to