The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-08
Cigarette Stump Thrown
Aside In Basement Said
to Have Been Cause
Fire Started About O'clock, and in Little Over an Hour
Drug Store Building Was Gutted
Stock Of $4,000 Carried by Meredith Drug Co. Is Total
LOss--Wen Insured
Porritt Flats Badly DamagedFargO Candy Co. Also VIII
Have Some LoSS---DeniS Fur Store Damaged

and was later carried away by his
friends. His injuries are not serious.
The Porritt Building.
In the Porritt building on the corner
OF Fifth street and N. p. avenue, the
loss was largely limited to the break
ing of windows in the upstairs flats,
which were broken In the effort to toss
out interior furnishings from the
apartments above and save them from
the possibility of being destroyed by
fire.
There was considerable loss Of prop
erty to the tenants in these flats in
the way OF house furnishings. as a
rush was made on them when the fire
signal was first given and much was
broken In throwing the different ar
ticles to the street Nearly all the
apartments on the second floor of the.
Porritt building were practically.
wrecked and the floors of each were
strewn with broken dishes and other
household articles.
Telephone Co. sub-o Office.
The Northwestern Telephone Co. oc-
cupies a small room on the first floor
OF the Porritt building facing Fifth
street just back OF the Fargo Candy
Co. Under the direction of III. l..
Greene of that concern. all the interior
furnishings and the sub exchange
board I'm that office were hastily re-
moved over to the company's main
building. opposite The Forum build
ing, without any loss. There was prac-
tically no damage done this room by
| the flames or water.
c. II Porritt has an Office on the
FIRST floor at the extreme reAr uf The
| building on the corner or tfIe 3fiey.
which was little damaged by fire or
water. Practically the only damage
done there was in getting out the Of
fee furniture.
Took Horses From Barn.
The stable rustiers employed at the
Smith livery barn had an exciting
time in getting out number of horses
that were in the barn during the noon
hour. 1t was at first thought that the
stable was in great danger. The ami
mails fought desperately and II was
through the hardest kind of labor that
they were taken from the place.
A heavy stream Of water is running
into the Fargo Candy Co.'S store on
N. p. avenue from the adjoining build
ing which will damage the place TO a
great extent. The fiat over the Oliver
Denis Fur store on n. p. avenue, and
under the management of Mrs. L. e.
Moren, will suffer a heavy loss from
water and smoke. 1t Is furnished with
| $500 worth of furniture.
Meredieh Building Gone.
The Meredith building Is complete
wreck. the roof Of the structure has
fallen and the rear walls OF the build
ing threaten TO collapse any minute.
The insurance on the stock of the
Meredith firm is not known at the
presene time.
Cinders Caused Alarm.
Cinders from the burning building
| were carried by the breeze over on the
| roofs of nearly all the adjacent build
| ings and those in the immediate
neighborhood. Cinders were blown
over on the roofs Of the Fargo Bottling
Works, and The Forum and Johnson
buildings and the j. e. Carter veter-
mary hospital, all Of which are in the
block with the ruins OF the Meredith
building.
Great volumes OF smoke were car
ried into all the buildings in the vi
cinity and 1t was greatly feared at one
time that the blaze would spread
across the alley into the Smith livery
stable which might possibly endanger
the walls of the Fargo Bottling Works
building.
Z. I.